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MAINE INSIDE OUT

EIN 83-0462687 LEWISTON, ME

Revenue 2023
$1,042,386
Expenses 2023
$1,040,936

Program services were 73.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1062

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 · 2023

Mission

Maine Inside Out (MIO) creates art, builds culture, and develops leadership to realize a world where everyone matters and belongs. MIO creates and shares original theater for community change, centering the leadership of people with lived experience of incarceration. Since 2008, MIO has engaged over 300 youth ages 12-30 to create and share original theater inside Maine correctional facilities, in the community, and in public schools. MIO's work focuses on building connection, belonging, and purpose, and the organization is regarded as a national model for engaging youth leadership and enacting community change.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Maine Inside Out(MIO) creates art, builds culture, and develops leadership to realize a world where everyone matters and belongs. MIO creates and shares original theater for community change, centering the leadership of people with lived experience of incarceration. Since 2008, MIO has engaged over 300 youth ages 12-30 to create and share original theater inside Maine correctional facilities, in the community, and in public schools. MIO's work focuses on building connection, belonging, and purpose, and the organization is regarded as a national model for engaging youth leadership and enacting community change.

  • LEWISTON LANDING PAD PROJECT:Artists participated in peer based groups and received support through MIO's advocacy and support programs which are held by the Lewiston Landing Pad Project. Advocacy and Support involves helping navigate system involvement and personal and family crises by offering support with: fines, fees, and restitution; emergency funds; monthly support for emergency food and basic resources (diapers, formula); shelter; and transportation. MIO Connected 34 young people to resources for emergency food and basic resources in 2023. The landing pad project also holds community program projects including community lunches where artists are invited to prepare for upcoming performances and MIO also invites community resources to connect artists to and other live performances including open mic nights and a Juneteenth celebration in Lewiston's Kennedy Park. In 2023 there were 6 community lunches. There were 4 open mic nights: MIO Open Mic Night "Remembering Bobby Payzant aka Paco" on February 9, 2023; Maine Inside Out Presents "The System" on April 6, 2023; October 2023 Open Mic Night "Transformations" on October 19, 2023; December Open Mic Night "Lewiston Strong Art for Healing" on December 14, 2023. There was one Juneteenth Celebration: "Juneteenth: A Change We're Waiting For" on June 16, 2023

    Expenses $166,323 · Revenue $118,174

  • LEWISTON SCHOOLS PROJECT -MIO started a pilot program in Lewiston Middle School in March of 2022. In 2023, the work with Lewiston Middle School students continued.The theater program at LMS had MIO staff engaging with students in our arts-based model for youth leadership, community support, and crisis intervention. Students were placed in groups to create and perform original theater in an 8-12 week process with three distinct phases. In the first phase, groups create agreements for values and conduct and engage in ice-breakers, collaborative problem solving, personal story sharing, and basic theater skill-building exercises. In the second phase, the groups synthesize personal stories and artistic content into a cohesive original play. In the third phase, the groups rehearse and perform in front of an invited audience such as staff and administrators, students, community members, and families. Performances are followed by a facilitated dialogue about the content of the performance. The performances offer students a productive strategy for sharing their experiences and engaging the community in improving policies that directly impact their well being. The performances offer staff, teachers, and school leadership the opportunity to witness "at risk" students as leaders and artists. Overall, the process strengthens community culture and relationships through artistic expression and connected dialogue. The students successfully completed one phase of the theater making process and the two groups performed plays in front of their families, school administration and peers. Live performances for Lewiston Middle School Students: May 15 & May 18

    Expenses $197,340 · Revenue $204,876

  • FISCAL SPONSORSHIP-Maine Inside Out supports mission-aligned independent artists, organizations, and groups without 501(c)(3) tax status to apply for grant funding through formal fiscal sponsorship.Through fiscal sponsorship, MIO supports visionary artists and community organizers in the practical process of resourcing their ideas, reducing the administrative burden on emerging artists and projects and amplifying the collective community impact on social change. We meet with fiscal sponsor participants regularly to ensure alignment with the project and review expense reports.

    Expenses $61,515 · Grants $61,515 · Revenue $68,350

  • MOUNTAINVIEW PROJECT -In March MIO continued theater programming with incarcerated artists at Mountain View Correctional Facility. In 2023, MIO was able to hold 2 sessions at the facility. The first group met over a 16 week period, and the second group met over a 15 week period to create and share an original piece of theater. At the beginning of the program, groups created agreements for values and conduct and engaged in ice-breakers, brainstorming, collaborative problem solving, writing exercises and basic theater skill-building exercises. The groups created and rehearsed an original theater piece and then performed the pieces they created. The first session performed on June 22 and the second session performed on November 3 in front of audiences of invited guests which included staff, administration, incarcerated individuals and those connected to the artists support systems such as their families, lawyers, probation officers and other service providers. Performances were followed by a facilitated dialogue about the content of the performance. Upon completion, successful participants engage in a culminating ceremony and receive a Letter of Completion and Certificate of Completion. Participants in the program are invited to join MIO's community programming upon release. MIO supported 20 incarcerated artists with regular phone calls for support and art sharing, re-entry support and planning, along with stipends for art creation and virtual event attendance.

    Expenses $93,137 · Revenue $45,009

  • THEATER LAB PROJECT - The MIO Theater Lab is the overall container that holds any theater related work / activities. This includes: Lewiston School Projects, Portland School Projects, Mountain View Projects, and training / developing theater facilitators. The theater lab employs part-time employees and is responsible for growing their skills in theater facilitation so that they can become future facilitative leads of MIO.

    Expenses $48,493 · Revenue $18,951

  • PORTLAND SCHOOLS PROJECT -MIO started a pilot program in King Middle School (Portland) in February 2023. The theater program at KMS had MIO staff engaging with students in our arts-based model for youth leadership, community support, and crisis intervention. Students were placed in groups to create and perform original theater in an 8-12 week process with three distinct phases. In the first phase, groups create agreements for values and conduct and engage in ice-breakers, collaborative problem solving, personal story sharing, and basic theater skill-building exercises. In the second phase, the groups synthesize personal stories and artistic content into a cohesive original play. In the third phase, the groups rehearse and perform in front of an invited audience such as staff and administrators, students, community members, and families. Performances are followed by a facilitated dialogue about the content of the performance. The performances offer students a productive strategy for sharing their experiences and engaging the community in improving policies that directly impact their wellbeing. The performances offer staff, teachers, and school leadership the opportunity to witness "at risk" students as leaders and artists. Overall, the process strengthens community culture and relationships through artistic expression and connected dialogue. The students successfully completed one phase of the theater making process and the two groups performed plays in front of their families, school administration and peers. Live performances for King Middle School Students: May 23 & May 24

    Expenses $193,426 · Revenue $95,016

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Margot Fine

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $72,067
    From this org
    $69,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,105
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bruce King

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $66,035
    From this org
    $63,897
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,138
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mary Lou Michael

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Nidiry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dania Bowie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonah Fertig-Burd

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Galvez

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barrett Wilkinson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,042,386
    Expenses
    $1,040,936
    Contributions
    $1,023,347
    Grants paid
    $61,515
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,218,287
    Expenses
    $854,252
    Contributions
    $1,214,997
    Grants paid
    $12,255

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
    $843,820
    Expenses
    $755,957
    Assets (EOY)
    $354,510

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $611,941
    Expenses
    $482,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,278

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 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Annie Sibley O'Brien
Mailing address
11 Charles RoadCape Elizabeth ME 04107
Website
www.maineinsideout.org
Doing business as
Maine Inside Out

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

  • Sunlight Media Collective

    $61,515

    2023 Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists working to document and share media about issues affecting the Wabanaki people, emphasizing the frequent intersections between the environment and Tribal rights. Most of their work is short format video and written news coverage, and short films. They also organize events and produce feature-length documentaries. Their media helps to inform and inspire Mainers who might not otherwise have access to the Indigenous side of the story on these topics. Expenses for Sunlight Media Collective include: transportation, food, technology (zoom, mailchimp, quickbooks, transcription services, event rental and catering services), utilities (phone and internet), printing, postage, stipends.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 May 2010.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.