Maine · Nonprofit
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,253,312 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($1,606,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
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.
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trshared fundersportfolio match
- William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)portfolio match
- John T Gorman Foundationshared funders
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 21% · 2023 30% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $232k → $1.1M.
9 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 65% · 2019 29% · 2020 61% · 2021 47% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — 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
39% of BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
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
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is 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.
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 62 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- William P Wharton Trust UW Art 2(D)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersME · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Horizon Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incshared fundersNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Libra Foundationshared fundersME · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared fundersME · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Maine Health Access Foundation Incshared fundersME · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Davis Family Foundationshared fundersME · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Good Shepherd Food Bankshared fundersME · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Incshared fundersDE · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $652k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$652k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Peninsula Conservation Enterprises · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST?
- BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,253,312 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($1,606,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $6,253,312 in grants to BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST?
- ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 is the largest funder on record, with $1,606,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST 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 62funders 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