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Momentum Conservation

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

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$940k
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $395k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bomazeen Land Trust$20,000
Land in Common$20,000
Three Rivers Land Trust$20,000
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust$15,000
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust$15,000
Francis Small Heritage Trust$15,000
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc$15,000
Portland Trails$15,000
Greater Lovell Land Trust$15,000
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc$15,000
Western Foothills Land Trust$15,000
Blue Hill Heritage Trust$15,000
Orono Land Trust$10,000
Falmouth Land Trust$10,000
Great Works Regional Land Trust$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Bomazeen Land Trust: $20k → 7%Midcoast Conservancy: $10k → 9%Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: $20k → 9%Coastal Mountains Land Trust: $20k → 11%Frenchman Bay Conservancy: $20k → 11%7 Lakes Alliance: $10k → 12%Inland Woods Trails: $15k → 13%Land In Common Community Land Trust: $20k → 13%Sebasticook Regional Land Trust: $10k → 13%High Peaks Alliance: $10k → 14%Orono Land Trust: $10k → 15%Downeast Lakes Land Trust: $10k → 16%Bomazeen Land Trust: $20k → 7%Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $20k → 9%Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: $15k → 9%Coastal Mountains Land Trust: $15k → 11%Kennebec Land Trust: $15k → 12%Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc: $15k → 13%Land in Common: $20k → 13%Sebasticook Regional Land Trust: $10k → 13%Forest Society of Maine: $10k → 15%Downeast Coastal Conservancy: $15k → 16%Royal River Conservation Trust: $13k → 7%Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $15k → 9%Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: $10k → 9%Blue Hill Heritage Trust: $20k → 11%Land In Common Community Land Trust: $15k → 13%Brunswick Topsham Land Trust: $20k → 7%Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT): $15k → 9%Blue Hill Heritage Trust: $15k → 11%Greater Lovell Land Trust: $15k → 13%Georges River Land Trust: $20k → 11%Western Foothills Land Trust: $20k → 13%Kittery Land Trust: $15k → 9%Georges River Land Trust: $15k → 11%Western Foothills Land Trust: $15k → 13%Loon Echo Land Trust Inc: $15k → 7%Portland Trails: $15k → 7%THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST: $180k → 9%Three Rivers Land Trust: $20k → 9%Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $20k → 7%Three Rivers Land Trust: $15k → 9%South Portland Land Trust: $15k → 7%Great Works Regional Land Trust: $15k → 9%Presumpscot Regional Land Trust: $20k → 7%FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC: $100k → 9%Francis Small Heritage Trust: $15k → 9%Francis Small Heritage Inc: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 27 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+25%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LI
    LAND IN COMMON INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +130%
  • CM
    Coastal Mountains Land Trust
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +57%
  • SL
    Scarborough Land Conservation Trust
    3× · 2023–2025 · $43k · revenue +318%

Funded once

  • FB
    Frenchman Bay Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • FS
    Forest Society of Maine
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boothbay Region Land Trust

To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.

Environment
2
Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment
3
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
4
Francestown Land Trust Inc

The Francestown Land Trusts mission is to help preserve natural areas significant to the Francestown NH area and to provide conservation opportunities and education for area residents.

Environment
5
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
6
Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment
7
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…

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8
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
9
Farmington Land Trust

The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures…

Environment
10
Salem Land Trust Inc

Conserving the beauty, rural character, and natural diversity of the Town of Salem, CT

Environment
11
Lakes Region Conservation Trust

The mission of the Organization is the conservation of the natural resources of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the preservation of wildlife habitat, the stewardship of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of…

Environment
12
Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Mountains Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Portland Trails. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
26/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST: $225,000 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUSTFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INCMaine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $45,000 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $45,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $45,000 · EnvironmentBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $45,000 · EnvironmentScarborough Land Conservation Trust: $42,500 · Environment+30 more: $562,500 · Environment+30 moreWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST: $35,000 · OtherWESTERN FO…Presumpscot Regional Land Trust: $25,000 · OtherPresumpsco…SOUTH PORTLAND LAND TRUST: $20,000 · OtherSOUTH PORT…SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 · OtherSACO VALLE…7 Lakes Alliance: $10,000 · Other7 Lakes Al…Freeport Conservation Trust: $10,000 · OtherFreeport C…ORONO LAND TRUST: $10,000 · OtherORONO LAND…Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust: $7,500 · OtherChebeague …LAND IN COMMON INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Farmland Trust: $10,000 · Food & NutritionUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $7,500 · Food & NutritionHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsKENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$1,140,000Other$127,500Community Improvement$55,000Arts & Culture$40,000Food & Nutrition$17,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUST: $225,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC: $130,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetLAND IN COMMON INC: $55,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $45,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetScarborough Land Conservation Trust: $42,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetKITTERY LAND TRUST INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust: $35,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEBASTICOOK REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINLAND WOODS TRAILS: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSANFORD-SPRINGVALE MOUSAM WAY LAND TRUST: $12,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetArundel Conservation Trust: $12,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMidcoast Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFreeport Conservation Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust: $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSea Meadow Marine Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Fo…Onion FoundationMaine Community Found…John Sage FoundationThe Nature ConservancyQuimby Family Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…Fields Pond Foundatio…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Maine Coast Heritage …Edward C Johnson FundFidelity Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Momentum Conservation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Momentum Conservation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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