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ANDROSCOGGIN HEAD START & CHILD CARE

EIN 23-7323306 LEWISTON, ME

Revenue 2024
$6,415,629
Expenses 2024
$6,376,982

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
269 BATES ST

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

Promise Early Education Center's (formerly Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care) mission is to educate, engage and empower families, one child at a time.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To educate, engage, and empower families, one child at a time.

  • Full-year, Part-Day Head Start, Pre-K, and Early Head Start Programs: Promise Early Education Center is the foremost early learning program in Central Maine that is dedicated to educating the whole child and preparing that child for success in school and opportunities beyond. As the Head Start Program for Androscoggin County, Promise Early Education Center provides a safe, engaging and empowering place for children to learn and grow; offers a results-driven educational curriculum taught by degreed, licensed teachers; and supports the engagement of parents and caregivers in their child's learning through partnership, communication, and a commitment to parents and caregivers as primary educators. Promise offers it all affordably, so all families can put their children first.

    Expenses $4,137,405 · Revenue $330,365

  • Child Care Program: Promise Early Education Center strives to provide all children with a safe, nurturing, engaging, enjoyable, and secure learning environment. Each child is treated as an individual in an inclusive community that values, respects, and responds to diversity. Promise focuses around early childhood education and the important role it plays in a child's overall development ranging from social and emotional, physical, cognitive, and language and literacy development. We believe that each child is special and unique. Our goal is to meet each child's needs at his/her own level and to offer support to the families who care for them.

    Expenses $472,382 · Revenue $219,682

  • Food and Nutrition Programs: the Organizations offers food and dietary relief services through its Child and Adult Care Food Program ("CACFP"). The CACFP provides cash reimbursement to child and adult day care providers for serving meals and snacks meeting USDA standards to participants enrolled in care. Promise's food program recognizes and supports the important role childcare homes play in developing the healthy eating habits, growth, development, and overall wellness of young children. The Organization also assist in nutritional and affordable meal planning services.

    Expenses $756,122

  • The Organization provides many other child and family care services to its community. Examples include sponsoring and providing family educators, who meet weekly with client-families at the family's home. Educators guide and engage parents, lead activities, and act as resources for questions, concerns, and support. The goal is to help parents build a healthy parent-child relationship. Visits include education and child development opportunities, social services referrals, and guidance and referrals for health, mental health, and nutrition concerns. We also offer group gatherings twice a month where families can meet other parents of young children, helping build a community of support. Promise also provides prenatal support and assistance to expectant mothers to support healthy pregnancies and childbirth, starting the path toward a future of possibility for babies right from the start. A family educator conveniently visits families in their home and helps them through prenatal coaching, nutritional counseling (including WIC benefits), and helps to coordinate attendance at local childbirth education and newborn parenting classes. We also provide information on establishing a medical and dental home, health insurance, and any other community resource that provides support to expectant families.

    Expenses $427,654 · Revenue $14,754

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.

  • Debbie Baker

    Director (end 3/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Bussiere

    Director (end 9/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Cougle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Araksan Egueh

    Director (end 10/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monica Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Fowsia Musse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Azinaide Pedro

    Director (end 11/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen Ramsden

    Director (start 9/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julie Raymond

    Director (start 9/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emery Thoren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Raychel Ward

    Director (start 9/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Woolverton

    Director (end 10/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Carey

    Chair (end 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kayla Caswell

    Vice Chair; Chair (start 1/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carolyn Kasabian

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Bilodeau

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betsy Norcross-Plourde

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $138,570
    From this org
    $133,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,000
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robert J Schenberger Jr

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $104,220
    From this org
    $87,364
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,856
    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
    $6,415,629
    Expenses
    $6,376,982
    Contributions
    $5,827,434
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,938,480
    Expenses
    $6,094,447
    Contributions
    $5,490,339
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,187,876
    Expenses
    $5,924,420
    Contributions
    $5,645,680
    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
    $5,123,609
    Expenses
    $4,899,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,761,223

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,709,523
    Expenses
    $4,704,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,375,477

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,831,567
    Expenses
    $4,726,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,686,763

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,414,251
    Expenses
    $4,315,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,129,317

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,222,164
    Expenses
    $4,117,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,872,843

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,994,240
    Expenses
    $3,852,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,031,372

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,790,332
    Expenses
    $3,682,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,449,406

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,533,499
    Expenses
    $3,471,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,663,750

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,148,167
    Expenses
    $3,122,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $647,288

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,718,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,385,824

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.