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ENGINE INC

EIN 27-2463118 BIDDEFORD, ME

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Revenue 2024
$47
Expenses 2024
$20,300

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
PO BOX 1681

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

Primary exempt purpose

ENGINE CONNECTS AND EMPOWERS OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EQUITABLE ACCESS TO INSPIRATION AND CREATIVE EXPERIENCES.

  • BASED IN THE ECONOMIC HEART OF BIDDEFORD, ME, ENGINE HAS PROPELLED CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION WITH CREATIVE COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. THE 501(C)3 NONPROFIT BRINGS TOGETHER ARTISTS, MAKERS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES TO KNIT A CULTURE FILLED WITH CREATIVE EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INTO SOUTHERN MAINE. ENGINE PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO ENSURE ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FREE COMMUNITY EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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.

  • Abigail Bryant

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Lafortune

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Abigail Woods

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Pierson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Lafortune

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $47
    Expenses
    $20,300
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $42,682
    Expenses
    $73,580
    Contributions
    $34,752
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $105,362
    Expenses
    $239,774
    Contributions
    $79,235
    Grants paid
    $28,550
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $212,403
    Expenses
    $324,951
    Contributions
    $141,877
    Grants paid
    $28,500

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
    $532,416
    Expenses
    $260,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $448,448

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $169,118
    Expenses
    $189,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,832

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,229
    Expenses
    $212,880
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,449

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,883
    Expenses
    $228,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,573

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $190,259
    Expenses
    $217,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,239

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $267,585
    Expenses
    $256,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,364

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
Principal officer
Stephen Abbott
Mailing address
41 Franklin Street 1Biddeford ME 04005

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Project Bandaloop

    $25,500

    2023 To bring the performing arts organization to the City of Biddeford for a public performance.

  • Oterra LLC

    $5,000

    2022 Ignite

  • Heart of Biddeford

    $5,000

    2022 Ignite

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.