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DOWN EAST FAMILY YMCA

EIN 01-0412269 ELLSWORTH, ME

Revenue 2024
$5,727,035
Expenses 2024
$5,916,806

Program services were 97.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
238 STATE 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

To build strong communities, families and individuals by fostering respect and promoting a healthy spirit, mind and body.

  • DEFY Child Care includes the Moore Early Learning Center, the Beechland Early Learning Center, The Island of Imagination Early Learning Center, Camp Discovery, and Hancock Grammar School Afterschool. In all, DEFY Child Care provides services to over 500 families each year. DEFY Child Care is the largest child care provider in Hancock County, and one of the only centers to provide care from 6 weeks through 6th grade. More than 30% of our families receive some level of assistance for childcare services. Our centers collaborate with State agencies, local non-profits, and local schools to provide excellent care and transitional support for children needing special services.

    Expenses $3,032,206 · Revenue $2,190,969

  • The Blue Hill YMCA is focused on improving healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility for the communities on and around the Blue Hill Peninsula. The YMCA offers a broad range of programs and services to a diverse population. The Aquatics department provides instructional swim lessons and competitive swimming for all ages, aquatic aerobics for adults and seniors, Special Olympic programming, and the States first water safety program specifically for middle school-aged lobstermen. The Fitness department provides a wide range of programming for all ages, including the collaboration with Northern Light Hospital to provide Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase 3 to over 30 seniors. More than 250 adults and seniors take advantage of fitness programming each week, and an additional 300 adults and seniors take advantage of fitness equipment and our indoor track for their fitness. The Y also acts as the recreation department for much of the Peninsula.

    Expenses $1,135,379 · Revenue $956,879

  • The Wiggins YMCA is focused on improving healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility for the City of Ellsworth and surrounding communities. The YMCA offers a broad range of programs and services to a diverse population. The Aquatics department provides instructional swim lessons and competitive swimming for all ages, aquatic aerobics for adults and seniors, Special Olymic programming, and aquatic therapy. The Fitness department provides a wide range of programming for all ages, including a collaboration with Northern Light Hospital to provide cardiac rehabilitation phase 3 to over 40 seniors. More than 300 adults and seniors take advantage of fitness equipmnet and our indoor track for their fitness. The YMCA also acts as the recreation department for the City of Ellsworth. More than 500 youth paticipated in our recreational sports and afterschool programming. Scholarships are provided to qualifying individuals ensuring that all can be served.

    Expenses $1,124,392 · Revenue $1,122,103

  • The Bucksport YMCA is focused on improving healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility for the Town of Bucksport. The YMCA offers a broad range of programs and services to a diverse population. Through a collaboration with the Town of Bucksport, the Y provides year-round recreational sports and programming for kids from age 3 to 18. More than 350 youth participated in activities ranging from cheering to soccer, basketball, swim lessons and football. The Young Bucks Summer Camp provides child care services for families during the summer. More than 120 families enrolled in 2023, 30% of whom received scholarships. In the summer, the Y manages an outdoor pool, open to the public at no cost. More than 150 individuals take advantage of the pool each day during the summer. The Y provides a small fitness room and adult fitness programs throughout the year. Scholarships are provided to qualifying individuals ensuring that all can be served.

    Expenses $250,768 · Revenue $165,957

  • DEFY collaborates with the City of Ellsworth to manage the Moore Community Center(MCC). MCC houses the Moore Early Learning Center, Friends in Action (senior resource organization), and the Ellsworth Community Music Institute. The center also has a qymnasium, atrium, cafeteria & kitchen, auditorium, boardroom, and several classrooms available for rent for community groups and organizations. The YMCA assumes the majority of occupation expenses for the center and works with many local non-profits and agencies to provide affordable space for the programs and or meetings.

    Expenses $228,950 · Revenue $68,031

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Matthew Montgomery

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $102,201
    From this org
    $102,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dan Clifford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Sheena Whittaker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Geagan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rebecca Sargent

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Annika Marshall

    Teen Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elise Sargent

    Teen Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rich Rotella

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robyn Sealander

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Pebworth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patricia Patterson-King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kyle McKim

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Boles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sno Barry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cyndi Wood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janna Richards

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Doug Springer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ashley Rosborough

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andy Odeen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bobbi Jo Thornton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $5,727,035
    Expenses
    $5,916,806
    Contributions
    $1,184,038
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,110,630
    Expenses
    $5,185,263
    Contributions
    $1,159,286
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,363,926
    Expenses
    $4,872,160
    Contributions
    $1,183,808
    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
    $5,309,341
    Expenses
    $4,535,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,285,467

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,164,105
    Expenses
    $3,769,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,932,976

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,192,227
    Expenses
    $4,242,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,165,497

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,976,043
    Expenses
    $4,068,752
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,181,572

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,455,937
    Expenses
    $3,639,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,281,032

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,124,214
    Expenses
    $3,203,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,354,925

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,868,565
    Expenses
    $2,882,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,455,215

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,365,724
    Expenses
    $2,392,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,524,305

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,231,591
    Expenses
    $2,394,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,697,631

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,315,620
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,980,688

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.

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 as related by

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.