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WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS

EIN 22-2806424 PORTLAND, ME

Largest nonprofits in Maine

Revenue 2023
$1,031,611
Expenses 2023
$1,056,894

Program services were 81.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K34Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1278

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

The mission of Wayside is to increase access to food for those in need in Southern Maine by providing a system for community based volunteers who serve prepared meals where such meals are needed, and by collaborating with other hunger agencies in developing an efficient network for the collection and equitable distribution of food.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide food to the poor and hungry of the Greater Portland area.

  • The Community Meals Program helps people access nutritious meals in their own neighborhoods through partnerships with churches and community centers, reaching residents of Greater Portland unserved by existing resources. Neighborhood settings are familiar and reduce the stigma often associated with asking for help. Wayside prepares meals at a central kitchen, shared with Portland Public Schools. The meals improve current conditions by supporting healthy eating habits and reducing food insecurity. Over time, these programs decrease risks for chronic diseases and reduce the financial burden of conditions like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease upon the community.Wayside's Food Rescue Program provides food to pantries, soup kitchens, and service agencies in Cumberland County. In 2023, Food Rescue distributed approximately 2,184,000 lbs of food through partner agencies. Wayside's Community Garden Program partners with a Portland Housing Authority site for low-income seniors & disabled adults to facilitate garden workshops and built garden beds, a compost bin, and a cold frame. A lawn donated by a South Portland homeowner became a vegetable garden for the Community Meals and Mobile Food Pantries.The Cupboard Collective Lakes Region Food Transportation Service was designed to increase accessibility of healthy food in communities outside Greater Portland. Wayside makes bimonthly deliveries of rescued food, T.E.F.A.P. food & food from Good Shepherd Food Bank to pantries in Bridgton, Naples and Casco.

    Expenses $864,031 · Revenue $156,982

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • John S Leeming

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • David Hamilton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robert J Ayotte

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Marina Chakmakchi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Ayers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Emily IW Kain

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Laurie Mitchell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michelle LaFond

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dena Libner

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Romano

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Karen Schilling

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ryan Ranger

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Frederick

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary Zwolinski

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $92,511
    From this org
    $78,757
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,754
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $1,031,611
    Expenses
    $1,056,894
    Contributions
    $776,666
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,176,096
    Expenses
    $960,227
    Contributions
    $1,008,714
    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
    $1,173,627
    Expenses
    $927,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,754,932
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,460,623
    Expenses
    $809,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,455,918
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $907,197
    Expenses
    $657,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $809,537
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $650,693
    Expenses
    $658,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $563,930
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $510,569
    Expenses
    $610,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $566,565
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $577,256
    Expenses
    $583,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $665,673
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $569,762
    Expenses
    $540,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $670,750
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $606,003
    Expenses
    $496,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,791
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $538,028
    Expenses
    $496,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $520,059
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $473,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $481,565

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.