Western Maine Addiction Recovery Initiative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842181752
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Norway, ME, USA
Phone
2077442424
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment

Reported finances

Revenue
$711,867
Expenses
$562,627
Assets
$214,617
Liabilities
$-716

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KARI TAYLOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MATT BAKER (PRESIDENTBOARD CHAIR)
  • JENNIFER SMALL (VICE CHAIR)
  • CHRISTINA BOOTH (TREASURER)

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

Education and awareness to lower overdoses and deaths attributed to the heroin epidemic

What it reported doing in 2025

Project will implement prevention, treatment, and recovery strategites including, but not limited to: partnering and strengthening collaborative with law enforcement, first responders, healthcare providers, faith-based leaders, and treatment providers; educating the community on prevention strategies, harm reduction, stigma, adverse childhood experiences, and resiliency; increasing access to naloxone and providing overdose education; linking programming to middle and high schools; establishing a peer recovery center in oxford hills; expanding peer support workforce; increasing the number of medication-assisted treatment (mat) providers and access to mat; training the community on safe storage and disposal of prescription drugs; referring individuals with oud/sud to supportive recovery services; and screening for HIV/hcv

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $51.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $519K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.