Maine · Nonprofit
Borneo Research Council
Borneo Research Council (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,173 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $678k
What Borneo Research Council does
Mission
The Council is composed of an international group of scholars engaged in research in Borneo. The Council's goals are described in greater detail on Schedule O.The Council's goals are to:(1) Promote scientific research in the social, natural, and medical sciences in Borneo; (2) Permit the research community, interested Borneo government departments, and others to keep abreast of ongoing research and its results; (3) Serve as a vehicle for drawing attention to urgent research and its results; (4) Coordinate the flow of information on Borneo research arising from many diverse sources; (5) Disseminate rapidly the initial results of research activity; and (6) Inform the interested public on research in Borneo.Other functions include providing counsel and assistance to research endeavors, conservation activities, and the practical application of research results.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Council promotes and circulates scientific research and scholarly information related to Borneo, its environment, and its cultures. During the past year, the Council published and distributed various academic journals and essays, and improved its website and digital impact. The Council also provided funding and sponsorship for anthropological study and research.
$21,471 spentof which $16,909 as grants$3,034 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,471.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $419k to $549k (+31%).
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.
5% of Borneo Research Council’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% 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
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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $3k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Borneo Research Council’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
Borneo Research Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 Borneo Research Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Borneo Research Council draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Borneo Research Council runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Borneo Research Council
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Friends of the Royal Anthropological Institute · exempt
- Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Borneo Research Council: 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 Borneo Research Council?
- Borneo Research Council (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,173 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Borneo Research Council have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,173 in grants to Borneo Research Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Borneo Research Council?
- The Henry Luce Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Borneo Research Council 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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