How much does Momentum Conservation give?

Momentum Conservation reported 44 grants totaling $460,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Momentum Conservation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%).

Who are Momentum Conservation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Three Rivers Land Trust ($225k), Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc ($130k), Land in Common Inc ($55k).

Does Momentum Conservation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Momentum Conservation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Conservation Foundation, Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Momentum Conservation based?

Momentum Conservation is based in ME.

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Maine · Public charity

Momentum Conservation

To work collectively in maine to create mutually beneficial relationships with the earth, communities, and people through the conservation movement.

$460k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 44
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 38%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 24; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $143k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Momentum Conservation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	44	$455k	41%
FY2024	24	$385k	38%
FY2023	23	$275k	96%
FY2021	2	$280k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$940k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Three Rivers Land Trust	$225,000	4	23%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc	$130,000	3	51%
Land in Common Inc	$55,000	3	4%
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust	$45,000	3	10%
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Scarborough Land Conservation Trust	$42,500	3	1%
Bomazeen Land Trust	$40,000	2	7%
Great Works Regional Land Trust	$35,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Momentum Conservation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Three Rivers Land Trust	$225,000	4	23%
Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc	$130,000	3	51%
Land in Common Inc	$55,000	3	4%
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust	$45,000	3	10%
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Coastal Mountains Land Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust	$45,000	3	1%
Scarborough Land Conservation Trust	$42,500	3	1%
Bomazeen Land Trust	$40,000	2	7%
Great Works Regional Land Trust	$35,000	3	1%
Downeast Coastal Conservancy	$35,000	3	3%
Kittery Land Trust Inc	$35,000	3	4%
Georges River Land Trust	$35,000	2	2%
Western Foothills Land Trust	$35,000	2	1%
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust	$35,000	2	0%
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust	$30,000	3	9%
Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust	$30,000	3	3%
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Inland Woods Trails	$25,000	2	3%
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust	$25,000	3	1%
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust	$25,000	2	1%
The Kennebec Land Trust	$25,000	2	2%
South Portland Land Trust	$20,000	2	n/a
Frenchman Bay Conservancy	$20,000	1	1%
Royal River Conservation Trust	$17,500	2	1%
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Portland Trails	$15,000	1	n/a
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Maine Coast Heritage Trust	$15,000	1	0%
Androscoggin Land Trust Inc	$15,000	2	2%
Sanford-Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust	$12,500	2	13%
Arundel Conservation Trust	$12,500	2	14%
Forest Society of Maine	$10,000	1	0%
Saco Valley Land Trust Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Trust for Public Land	$10,000	1	0%
York Land Trust	$10,000	1	n/a
Downeast Lakes Land Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Midcoast Conservancy	$10,000	1	1%
7 Lakes Alliance	$10,000	1	n/a
High Peaks Alliance	$10,000	1	1%
Freeport Conservation Trust	$10,000	1	2%
Orono Land Trust	$10,000	1	n/a
Maine Farmland Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust	$7,500	1	2%
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust	$7,500	1	0%
Kennebunkport Heritage Housing Trust	$5,000	1	3%
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation	$5,000	1	2%
Kennebunk Land Trust	$5,000	1	n/a
Island Heritage Trust Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Somerset Woods Trustees	$5,000	1	n/a

Momentum Conservation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Davis Conservation FoundationME65.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · John Sage Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Quimby Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Edward C Johnson Fund · Fidelity Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Momentum Conservation

How much does Momentum Conservation give?: Momentum Conservation reported 44 grants totaling $460,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Momentum Conservation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Momentum Conservation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Three Rivers Land Trust ($225k), Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc ($130k), Land in Common Inc ($55k).
Does Momentum Conservation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Momentum Conservation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Conservation Foundation, Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Momentum Conservation based?: Momentum Conservation is based in ME.