Maine · Nonprofit
BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST
BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,071 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($240,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $298k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Bomazeen Land Trust does
Mission
The Bomazeen Land Trust enables direct descendants of the abenaki/wabanaki people to renew and resume their caretaking and stewardship roles for lands and waters with historical, spiritual, and ecological significance to the abenaki/wabanaki people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The land return program serves the wabanaki community by facilitating property transfers back to the wabanaki nations and/or community, which occur sometimes as direct transfers to Bomazeen Land Trust, and other times as redirected transfers to the tribal nations themselves. In lieu of a property transfer, Bomazeen Land Trust occasionally facilitates land management agreements with landholders. Successful transfers have included three properties in wabanaki territory. Successful land use agreements include our planting grounds where our food sovereignty program operates on the sandy river.
$43,072 spent35% of program spendingThe food sovereignty program saw dozens of volunteers and several community planting days throughout the warm season. The program produced enough corn to hand out free cornmeal to the communities at several community gatherings throughout 2023 and into the spring. Other crops were distributed according to need.
$41,564 spent34% of program spendingThe cultural transmission program brought the community together repeatedly throughout the year including two outdoor workshops, a cultural exchange event that brought together over 150 attendees and teachings, two seasonal ceremonies that brought together different organizations and wabanaki communities, and multiple diplomatic gatherings among community leaders.
$26,290 spent21% of program spendingEducation and outreach program: educational presentations at skowhegan history house, participation and presentations to the wabanaki commission on land and stewardship, educational presentations to the first light learning journey cohort, online education for grantors, participation in for the benefit of the greater public and the wabanaki community for facilitating better understanding of wabanaki history.
$12,057 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,983.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $528k to $1.1M (+99%).
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.
100% of BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $111k → $200k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2022 53% · 2023 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $397k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOMAZEEN LAND 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST?
- BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,071 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($240,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $795,071 in grants to BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOMAZEEN LAND TRUST?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOMAZEEN LAND 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 14 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing