Mission at the Eastward
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020235171
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Farmington, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077784705
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $218,342
- Expenses
- $215,331
- Assets
- $392,226
- Liabilities
- $2,097
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL CARRIER (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT ALAN DOSSETT (VICE PRESIDENT AND TREAS)
- CHRISTOPHER DELISLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SHARON COWEN (BOARD MEMBER)
- REV STEVE ALLMAN (SECRETARY)
- MICHAEL CARRIER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to love our neighbors through home repairs and youth outreach to create lives of hope, security, and dignity in central western Maine. The organization's vision is building lives, we envision a community of help, hope and connection though mission at the eastward's housing ministry and mission at the eastward's youth connection.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization's activities include providing housing and home repairs for those who could not otherwise afford it themselves or were not able to physically perform it, with a focus on single parent families, the elderly, people with disabilities and veterans who are economically disadvantaged.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.