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7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC

7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,308,181 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($3,145,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.1M
Revenue FY2024
35
Funders on record
$6.3M
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
21/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%

Against its field

7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($578k) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 143 ($1.9M) Expenses 350 ($2.0M) Net assets 96 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.5M) Expenses 197 ($1.1M) Net assets 106 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 97 ($1.3M) Expenses 214 ($1.2M) Net assets 109 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 124 ($1.7M) Expenses 203 ($1.2M) Net assets 128 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 471 ($6.3M) Expenses 266 ($1.5M) Net assets 276 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue 123 ($1.6M) Expenses 324 ($1.9M) Net assets 285 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 231 ($3.1M) Expenses 365 ($2.1M) Net assets 326 ($9.1M)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (365)Net assets (326)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 18% · 2019 8% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2023 27% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$761k
17
$100k
18
$330k
19
$58k
20
$494k
21
$4.8M
22
$231k
23
$978k
24
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.3M.

14 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50%
largest funder
67%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 82% · 2023 39%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

54% of 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC?
7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,308,181 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($3,145,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $6,308,181 in grants to 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC?
HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing