Maine · Nonprofit
Cobscook Community Learning Center
Cobscook Community Learning Center (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,826,628 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,805,200). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Cobscook Community Learning Center does
Mission
Our mission is to create responsive educational opportunities that strengthen personal, community and global well-being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retreats Community Programs Cobscook Center serves as a hub and homeplace for community responsive, trauma-informed, and welcoming retreats and community programs. Community programs are informed by the interest and needs of community members and are in service of individual, community, and global wellbeing. Intergenerational learning include programs in movement, arts, crafts, local ecology and culture, sustainability community resilience. Cobscook and its partners leverage the Center, its gathering spaces, community kitchen, art studios, 53-bed Heartwood Lodge, and 50-acres of wildland as the home base for immersion learning, field studies, and retreats.
$275,227 spent28% of program spendingCobscook Experiential Programs offers experiential, place-based education, outdoor leadership, and practical skill-building programs grounded in the ecology and cultures of the Cobscook Bay region and in a positive social/emotional setting. The signature program is a 4-year high school program offered in partnership with the Calais School Department. CEP is relational and experiential and leverages interdisciplinary, outdoor education and place-based pedagogies as transformative pathways for learning and engagement. Students participate in expeditions, community service projects, fieldwork with local experts and knowledge keepers, and individualized, small-group, and hands-on learning. These approaches are responsive to the needs of the youth, center student voice, and strengthen both personal and community wellbeing. CEP programming also includes a full slate of synergistic summer and afterschool programs.
$244,645 spent25% of program spendingHeartwood Programs, TREE, Access/Scholarship Fund, Development Fund, Capital Construction Fund These programs and services facilitate programs that are rooted in equity and access with a commitment towards individual, community, and global wellbeing. They sustain a thriving, accessible, and generative campus that serves as a hub and homeplace for Cobscooks programming. See Schedule O for more in-depth program descriptions.
$452,876 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $972,748.
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.
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 $3.5M to $3.0M (−14%).
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 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Colby Soctomah Lewey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $782k → $173k.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Cobscook Community Learning Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Cobscook Community Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 Cobscook Community Learning Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 45% · 2019 66% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 19% — 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
33% of Cobscook Community Learning Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
66% of Cobscook Community Learning Center'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like Cobscook Community Learning Center
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Cobscook Community Learning Center: 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 Cobscook Community Learning Center?
- Cobscook Community Learning Center (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,826,628 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,805,200). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cobscook Community Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,826,628 in grants to Cobscook Community Learning Center, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cobscook Community Learning Center?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,805,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cobscook Community Learning Center 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 37 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