Maine · Nonprofit
China Lake Association
China Lake Association (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,950 to it, the largest being BURTON G AND ANNE C GREENBLATT FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $210k
What China Lake Association does
Mission
To preserve protect the and restore water quality of China Lake in Maine through education research fundraising and execution and management of water quality projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conducting water quality workshops executing and managing erosion control projects supporting programs to prevent lake entry of invasive species,
$3,045 spentof which $6,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,045.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $123k to $180k (+46%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $900 → $15k.
From the IRS filings of China Lake Association’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
China Lake Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
China Lake Association draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like China Lake Association
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.
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 China Lake Association: 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 China Lake Association?
- China Lake Association (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,950 to it, the largest being BURTON G AND ANNE C GREENBLATT FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does China Lake Association have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,950 in grants to China Lake Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of China Lake Association?
- BURTON G AND ANNE C GREENBLATT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like China Lake Association 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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