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THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN GRETCHEN A JOHNSON

EIN 01-0431501 PORTLAND, ME

Revenue 2024
$1,310,357
Expenses 2024
$1,614,821

Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O99Z
Classification
1000
Street
555 FOREST AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE A SAFE SPACE, LOVING PEER SUPPORT, OUTREACH AND EDUCATION TO GRIEVING CHILDREN, TEENS, FAMILIES, AND THE COMMUNITY.

  • BEREAVEMENT PEER SUPPORT: WEEKLY VOLUNTEER LED, AGE-BASED PEER SUPPORT GROUPS PROVIDE A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH CHILDREN, YOUNG ADULTS AND ADULTS WHO HAVE SUFFERED THE DEATH OF SOMEONE CLOSE CAN SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES AND FEELINGS WITH OTHERS WITH SIMILAR EXPERIENCES. TRAINED VOLUNTEER FACILITATORS SUPPORT CHILDREN, TEENS AND PARENTS/CAREGIVERS AT LOCATIONS IN PORTLAND AND SANFORD AND ONLINE.

    Expenses $914,776

  • TENDER LIVING CARE: WEEKLY VOLUNTEER LED, AGE-BASED PEER SUPPORT GROUPS PROVIDE A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH CHILDREN, TEENS, YOUNG ADULTS, PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS COPE WITH THE CHANGES THAT COME WITH A FAMILY MEMBER'S DIAGNOSIS OF A SERIOUS ILLNESS. TRAINED VOLUNTEER FACILITATORS SUPPORT FAMILIES FROM THE POINT OF DIAGNOSIS ON WITH ILLNESS PEER SUPPORT GROUPS, PHONE SUPPORT, AND INFORMATION.

    Expenses $177,873

  • OUTREACH AND EDUCATION: STAFF AND TRAINED VOLUNTEERS TAKE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE OUT TO LOCAL SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, CRISIS SUPPORT, AND CONSULTATION ON SUPPORTING GRIEVING CHILDREN AND ADULTS. ONLINE RESOURCES, INCLUDING WEBINARS AND RECORDED TRAININGS, ARE ALSO AVAILABLE. INTERCULTURAL AND COLLECTIVE GRIEF SUPPORT: IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL SCHOOLS, NONPROFIT AND OTHER COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS, THIS PROGRAM SERVES ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH-SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN WHOSE LOSS RESULTS FROM A RELOCATION TO MAINE, LEAVING BEHIND FAMILY, FRIENDS, COMMUNITY, AND CULTURE. STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN PEER SUPPORT GROUPS THAT INCLUDE COLLABORATIVE GROUP PROJECTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CREATIVE ARTS AND SELF-EXPRESSION.

    Expenses $177,873 · Revenue $7,881

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KIM DONNELLY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JACK YAO

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARA MCLAUGHLIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LINDSEY KERKELA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOUG CURRIER

    PAST PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRETCHEN JOHNSON

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $123,882
    From this org
    $117,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,767
    Hours/week
    50

  • MICHAEL NEFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE WILSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHY BAKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW BALDACCI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC SWANSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRIAN CHO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAUREEN CLANCY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLY BARTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HOLLY MARGESON GAMACHE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JESSICA ESTES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRIS EIMICKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JERRY LYON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS KELLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER KIMBALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTOPHER BENDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIMBERLY MARCOTTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRIAN MORIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH PLIZGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRYAN SHUMWAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,310,357
    Expenses
    $1,614,821
    Contributions
    $1,263,331
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,283,876
    Expenses
    $1,575,114
    Contributions
    $1,273,548
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,513,322
    Expenses
    $1,536,592
    Contributions
    $1,501,147
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,350,166
    Expenses
    $1,283,270
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,418,911

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,455,232
    Expenses
    $1,178,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,272,265

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,030,336
    Expenses
    $1,113,824
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,110,708

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,042,544
    Expenses
    $1,140,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,070,616

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,041,886
    Expenses
    $1,012,046
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,235,704

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $918,731
    Expenses
    $889,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,211,041

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,763
    Expenses
    $834,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,175,208

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,444
    Expenses
    $779,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,124,180

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $765,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,090,430

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $780,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,044,335

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.