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Portland, ME educational institutions

There are 504 schools and educational institutions in the greater Portland Maine metro area, including the cities of Portland and South Portland. Combined, these Portland metro educational institutions employ 12,146 people, earn more than $1 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $6 billion.
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Types of educational institutions in Portland

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Student service organizations
 
113
 
$39,599,463
Educational service providers
 
98
 
$9,915,679
Scholarship and financial aid organizations
 
73
 
$16,956,383
Preschool, elementary, and secondary schools
 
58
 
$265,246,332
Parent teacher associations
 
55
 
$237,574
Libraries
 
52
 
$44,355,053
Organizations supporting a single school or educational institution
 
48
 
$11,192,057
Organizations supporting multiple schools and educational institutions
 
29
 
$5,253,212
Adult education and ESL centers
 
27
 
$4,653,566
Nurseries, preschools, and kindergartens
 
18
 
$18,703,806
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Job trends for Portland, ME educational institutions

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
41
1-10
 
34
11-25
 
20
26-100
 
22
101 to 1,000
 
15
1,000+
 
2
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Sizes of educational institutions in Portland

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
81
$250k to $1M
 
33
$1M to $5M
 
33
$5M to $25M
 
16
$25M to $100M
 
7
$100M+
 
2
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Directory of educational institutions in Portland

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1-20 of 504

Woodfords Family Services

Woodfords Family Services is a non-profit that provides family support to people with special needs and their families in Maine communities. It offers services such as trained support staff, developmental services, and early childhood services.
Revenue
$48.0m
Assets
$28.3m
Employees
614
EIN
01-0278395
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Trustees of Thornton Academy

Thornton Academy is a grade 6-12 private school in Saco, ME that challenges students to learn, grow, innovate and succeed.
Revenue
$35.3m
Assets
$64.7m
Employees
300
EIN
01-0224769
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College prepares undergraduates for purposeful careers by integrating liberal arts and AI, advancing digital equity, and fostering rigorous, close faculty-student learning.
Revenue
$449.6m
Assets
$3.6b
Employees
3,087
EIN
01-0215213
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Berwick academy

Berwick Academy promotes virtue and knowledge via independent coeducational day school education for 589 students in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
Revenue
$26.8m
Assets
$61.1m
Employees
257
EIN
01-0223755
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Davis Educational Foundation

Davis Educational Foundation is an organizations supporting multiple schools or educational institution in Yarmouth, ME whose mission is: Grant-making organization strengthening undergraduate programs in New England.
Revenue
$5.2m
Assets
$130.3m
Employees
5
EIN
04-2864042
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Waynflete School

Waynflete School guides students towards self-governance and responsible participation in the world, providing private education for approximately 576 students.
Revenue
$32.0m
Assets
$79.3m
Employees
341
EIN
01-0211565
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Portland Public Library (PPL)

Portland Public Library inspires learning and curiosity through 5 physical locations, including a Shared Collections Management Center (SCMC) in Portland.
Revenue
$7.5m
Assets
$17.3m
Employees
117
EIN
01-6000802
IRS type
501(c)(3)

University of New England (UNE)

The University of New England (UNE) provides students with a highly integrated learning experience that promotes excellence through interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in education, research, and service.
Revenue
$322.8m
Assets
$847.9m
Employees
3,178
EIN
01-0211810
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pine Tree Society

Pine Tree Society empowers people with disabilities in Maine through direct services like Pine Tree camp and public health education.
Revenue
$14.1m
Assets
$41.1m
Employees
220
EIN
01-0212442
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Hyde School

To renew and transform lives through in-depth programs of family-based character education, involving the values of courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern.
Revenue
$12.8m
Assets
$36.7m
Employees
88
EIN
01-6021559
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Unity Environmental University

Maine-based Unity Environmental University delivers top-notch education in environmental science fields for environmentally competent professionals and sustainability advocates.
Revenue
$86.7m
Assets
$107.2m
Employees
542
EIN
01-0275130
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Maine College of Art and Design

Maine College of Art is a private institution located in Portland, ME that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fine arts. The institution has a teaching program and a variety of instruction to its approximately 400 full-time students.
Revenue
$38.6m
Assets
$76.1m
Employees
367
EIN
01-0378758
IRS type
501(c)(3)

University of Southern Maine Foundation

USM Foundation supports the University's mission by managing resources, transferring scholarship funds, and receiving donations to enhance opportunities.
Revenue
$14.3m
Assets
$58.6m
Employees
27
EIN
04-3350930
IRS type
501(c)(3)

North Yarmouth Academy

North Yarmouth Academy is an independent, college preparatory, coeducational day school serving students in kindergarten through grade twelve.
Revenue
$16.9m
Assets
$36.0m
Employees
201
EIN
01-0211536
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Maine Coast Waldorf School

Maine Coast Waldorf School fosters students' highest potential through clarity of thought, warmth of heart, and strength of resolve.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$11.3m
Employees
123
EIN
22-2551702
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Saint Joseph's College provides a career-focused, personalized, liberal arts education, offering more than 40 undergraduate programs, certificates, and graduate degrees for on-campus and online students.
Revenue
$54.6m
Assets
$62.9m
Employees
901
EIN
01-0212542
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The International Schools of Florence (ISF)

The International School of Florence (ISF) is one of the oldest international schools in Europe, culminating in the International Baccalaureate Diploma, the surest path to accessing the broadest choice of colleges and universities throughout the world.
Revenue
$14.6m
Assets
$18.7m
Employees
0
EIN
51-6021687
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Baxter Academies of Maine

Baxter Academies of Maine offers rigorous STEM-focused education through public and private charter schools in Portland.
Revenue
$5.2m
Assets
$8.0m
Employees
73
EIN
45-3626229
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bridgton Academy

Bridgton Academy offers a one-year postgraduate program, exclusively for male high school graduates, to prepare for college and beyond.
Revenue
$10.2m
Assets
$19.2m
Employees
69
EIN
01-0221344
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture

Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture transforms farming and food for a healthier planet. Visitors can camp, learn, connect, and train there.
Revenue
$9.7m
Assets
$18.6m
Employees
132
EIN
22-2586116
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B00: Education: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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