Maine · Nonprofit
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC (Maine) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,862,440 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,000,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Coastal Enterprises Inc does
Mission
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities with low income in maine and rural regions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To help create opportunities for communities and individuals, especially those with low incomes, by developing and administering programs and mobilizing funds to stimulate economic activity through investment, technical assistance, education and training primarily in small businesses, affordable housing and community facilities.
$17,722,189 spentof which $2,229,628 as grants$5,763,522 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,722,189.
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 2023 to 2024, from $126M to $152M (+20%).
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: 2017 40% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 17% · 2022 45% · 2023 19% · 2024 30% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Elisabeth Biemann
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Miriam L Shark
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.3M.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 47% · 2019 49% · 2020 24% · 2021 83% · 2022 24% · 2023 27% — 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
43% of COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
63% of COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.2M on record — $32.2M federal, $273 state.
- Department of Agriculture$8.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.5M
- Small Business Administration$7.2M
- Department of the Treasury$5.7M
- Department of Commerce$3.6M
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$273
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 COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- 30 Federal Street Investments LLC · disregarded
- Cei Fund Capital LLC · disregarded
- Bright Community Capital Holdings LLC · partnership
- Cei Capital Management LLC · partnership
- Coastal Ventures III LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC?
- COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC (Maine) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,862,440 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,000,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $40,862,440 in grants to COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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