Maine · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY
CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,521 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($493,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $607k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $240k
What Center for an Ecology Based Economy does
Mission
Organize, educate, take direct action and implement practical ecological solutions for a just transition to a thriving, regenerative economy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our vision for a stable, sustainable economy is one that is built on a backbone of clean renewable energy and regenerative agriculture.
$230,497 spent$58,953 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $230,497.
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 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $249k (+24%).
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 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 17% · 2023 12% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Scott Vlaun
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $1k → $261k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY’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
CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 54% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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
57% of CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
71% of CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$150k
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 CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY: 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 CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY?
- CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY (Maine) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,521 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($493,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,093,521 in grants to CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $493,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY BASED ECONOMY 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 19 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