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Common Threads of Maine

EIN 83-3630750 Westbrook, ME

Revenue 2023
$202,099
Expenses 2023
$191,311

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
90 Bridge Street 301

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 Common Threads of Maine ("CTM") is to improve individuals' lives and career opportunities by providing commercial and other sewing educational programs, and mentoring to translate acquired skills into employment and career development.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To promote fulfilling careers in the Maine textile industry by teaching people to become skilled stitchers, advocating for fair treatment in the workplace, and assisting business development.

  • Since the organization's beginning in 2015, nearly 150 students have learned to become skilled industrial stitchers. We have helped connect over 85 percent to good paying jobs at the workplaces of local employers. Participants have earned new confidence, workplace skills and improved English and math skills.

    Expenses $156,020 · Revenue $71,118

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.

  • Dory Waxman

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Duson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Beal

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pious Ali

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosemarie De Angelis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jo Bell

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $52,500
    From this org
    $52,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Apphia Kamanda

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $51,450
    From this org
    $51,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

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
    $202,099
    Expenses
    $191,311
    Contributions
    $125,581
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $162,074
    Expenses
    $169,988
    Contributions
    $137,638
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $179,425
    Expenses
    $169,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,513

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $143,294
    Expenses
    $134,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,351

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Dory-Anna Richards Waxman
Mailing address
192 Stevens AvePortland ME 04102
Website
www.commonthreadsmaine.org

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

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

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 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.