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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.

$409k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$940k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $385,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $408,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bomazeen Land Trust$20,000
Brunswick Topsham Land Trust$20,000
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust$20,000
Scarborough Land Trust$20,000
Land In Common Community Land Trust$20,000
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust$20,000
Georges River Land Trust$20,000
Coastal Mountains Land Trust$20,000
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust$20,000
Frenchman Bay Conservancy$20,000
Western Foothills Land Trust$20,000
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust$20,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT)$15,000
Francis Small Heritage Inc$15,000
Kittery Land Trust$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Bomazeen Land Trust: $20k → 7%Arundel Conservation Trust: $8k → 9%Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $20k → 9%Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: $20k → 9%Coastal Mountains Land Trust: $20k → 11%Frenchman Bay Conservancy: $20k → 11%Kennebec Land Trust: $15k → 12%Inland Woods Trails: $15k → 13%Land In Common Community Land Trust: $20k → 13%Sebasticook Regional Land Trust: $10k → 13%Forest Society of Maine: $10k → 15%Downeast Lakes Land Trust: $10k → 16%Brunswick Topsham Land Trust: $20k → 7%Kittery Land Trust: $15k → 9%Kennebec Estuary Land Trust: $15k → 9%Coastal Mountains Land Trust: $15k → 11%Blue Hill Heritage Trust: $20k → 11%Western Foothills Land Trust: $20k → 13%Land In Common Community Land Trust: $15k → 13%Sebasticook Regional Land Trust: $10k → 13%Downeast Coastal Conservancy: $15k → 16%Royal River Conservation Trust: $13k → 7%Kittery Land Trust: $10k → 9%Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT): $15k → 9%Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust: $8k → 11%Blue Hill Heritage Trust: $10k → 11%Androscoggin Land Trust: $10k → 13%Downeast Coastal Conservancy: $10k → 16%Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $20k → 7%Sanford Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust: $8k → 9%Georges River Land Trust: $20k → 11%South Portland Land Trust: $15k → 7%THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST: $180k → 9%Georges River Land Trust: $15k → 11%Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust: $10k → 7%Three Rivers Land Trust: $15k → 9%Falmouth Land Trust: $10k → 7%Three Rivers Land Trust: $10k → 9%Falmouth Land Trust: $10k → 7%Great Works Regional Land Trust: $15k → 9%Harpswell Heritage Land Trust: $10k → 7%Great Works Regional Land Trust: $10k → 9%Presumpscot Regional Land Trust: $20k → 7%FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC: $100k → 9%Harpswell Heritage Land Trust: $10k → 7%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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$688k · 15 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$688k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +130%
  • CM
    Coastal Mountains Land Trust
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +57%
  • SL
    Scarborough Land Conservation Trust
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +318%

Funded once

  • IW
    INLAND WOODS TRAILSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +69%
  • TK
    THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • RR
    ROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -61%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
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
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
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
6
Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment
7
Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc

To protect and conserve land and traditional land uses including farming, recreation, significant habitats, scenery, and water resources for the benefit of the public. The organization facilitates community-based conservation.

Environment
8
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
9
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
10
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
11
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Mountains Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Sanford-Springvale Mousam Way Land Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%55%35–55yr17%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr15%53%35–55yr17%2%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
10%
512/5,368

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST — $205,000 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUSTFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC — $115,000 · EnvironmentFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INCGeorges River Land Trust — $35,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $35,000 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST — $35,000 · EnvironmentScarborough Land Conservation Trust — $32,500 · EnvironmentMaine Appalachian Trail Land Trust — $30,000 · EnvironmentBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST — $30,000 · Environment+18 more — $297,500 · Environment+18 moreWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $20,000 · OtherPresumpscot Regional Land Trust — $20,000 · OtherSOUTH PORTLAND LAND TRUST — $15,000 · OtherChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust — $7,500 · OtherLAND IN COMMON INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$815,000Other$62,500Community Improvement$35,000Arts & Culture$20,000Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHREE RIVERS LAND TRUST — $205,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC — $115,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetLAND IN COMMON INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $35,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetScarborough Land Conservation Trust — $32,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMaine Appalachian Trail Land Trust — $30,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKITTERY LAND TRUST INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBrunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSEBASTICOOK REGIONAL LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPresumpscot Regional Land Trust — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOMAZEEN LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetINLAND WOODS TRAILS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetForest Society of Maine — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNEAST LAKES LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDROSCOGGIN LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSANFORD-SPRINGVALE MOUSAM WAY LAND TRUST — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetArundel Conservation Trust — $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Momentum Conservation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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