Maine · Nonprofit
BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN
BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN (Maine) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,270 to it, the largest being CHESTER & MURIEL DAWES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $778k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund In does
Mission
Provide need-based financial assistance to boothbay region high school graduates seeking education beyond the secondary level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provided financial aid for post secondary education to graduates of the boothbay region high school who lacked adequate financial resources. 63 grants were awarded during the year.
$450,450 spentof which $450,450 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $450,450.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.9M to $8.7M (+26%).
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.
70% of BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $103k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN’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
BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 34% · 2019 44% · 2020 59% · 2021 24% · 2022 28% · 2023 48% — 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
64% of BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN?
- BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN (Maine) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,270 to it, the largest being CHESTER & MURIEL DAWES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $593,270 in grants to BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN?
- CHESTER & MURIEL DAWES CHARITABLE 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 BOOTHBAY REGION STUDENT AID FUND IN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing