Maine Womens Giving Tree
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453594648
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Brunswick, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2072952067
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,278
- Expenses
- $99,823
- Assets
- $129,847
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Diane Field (President)
- Patricia Vaugh (Vice President)
- Amy Saxton Watson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Penny Paquette (Secretary)
- Diane Field (President)
- Patricia Vaugh (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MWGT is a charity that distributes grants to local organizations to promote the welfare of women, children and families. Members pay a yearly membership fee of $50 to operate the organization and pay bills. During the calendar year members donate a minimum of $365 that is awarded as grants in the following year. 15 grant were awarded to non-profit organizations totaling $96,001 after a rigorous evaluation process that includes at least 25% of the membership.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 Non-profit grants: ArtVan $6,452 for mobile art therapy for youth; Bath Area Backpack Program $4,000 providing school children with food for weekends; Freeport Community Service $4,500 for food pantry; Growing To Give $5,000 for education and farm donation program; Habitat For Humanity $8,071 providing building materials for home repair; Harpswell Santa Fund $5,644 for food pantry; Home To Home $6,048 for children's access to parents in domestic abuse situation; Mawita Nej Epijij $5,000 building community for Wabanaki people; Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program $8,071 providing meals for youth; Mid Coast Literacy $5,000 for one-on-one tutoring for children; Mid Coast Maine Community Action $5,000 serves families in need of diaper supplies; Midcoast Youth Center & Skatepark $6,048 provides resources for homeles youth; People Plus Brunswick Area Teen Center $5,050 for garden and greenhouse; Planned Parenthood of Northern New England $12,117 supporting reproductive health; Tedford Housing $5,000 help in accessing permanent housing; The Gathering Place $5,000 providing daytime shelter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.7%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.7% of revenue deployed · 3.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.