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Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of their cultural geography; and 3) Help inspire an appreciation for conserving its ecological…

$59k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,400
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$593k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$6k100%
FY20233$60k67%
FY20221$20k100%
FY20211$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$86kScience & Tech$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kincaid Consulting LLC$37,6661n/a
Kestrel Foundation of Maine$35,000212%
University of Maine$7,1731n/a
Greyvis Research LLC$6,8441n/a
Maine Natural History Observatory$6,40012%

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About Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

How much does Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative give?
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,400, out of $59,141 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (92%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Kincaid Consulting LLC ($38k), Kestrel Foundation of Maine ($35k), University of Maine ($7k).
Does Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative based?
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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