Maine · Nonprofit
DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC
DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,626,597 to it, the largest being Friends of Acadia ($1,626,597). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Downeast Transportation Inc does
Mission
To provide fixed route, public transportation service in and around hancock county, maine in order to give rural communities improved access to work, shopping, medical. Human and government services
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Year-round county-wide bus service - downeast transportation provides popular year-round shopping trips to ellsworth and bangor, and in-town shuttle service for bucksport, ellsworth, bar harbor and southwest harbor
$639,527 spent$357,044 earned by the program13% of program spendingIsland explorer - an alternatively fueled bus system in and around acadia national park. This is one of the most successful rural transportation systems in the u.s. The island explorer features twelve bus routes linking hotels, inn, and campgrounds with destinations in acadia national park and neighboring village centers. Clean propane-powered vehicles offer mount desert island visitors and residents free transportation to hiking trails, carriage roads, island beaches, and in-town shops and restaurants.
$3,826,432 spent$152,995 earned by the program75% of program spendingCommuter program - in 2003, downeast transportation began a very successful jobs access and reverse commute program in partnership with the jackson laboratory, hancock county's largest employer. This federal program addresses the unique transportation challenges faced by welfare recipients and low-income persons seeking to obtain and maintain employment.
$649,004 spent$343,380 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,114,963.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8.7M to $11M (+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 80% · 2021 93% · 2022 81% · 2023 70% · 2024 73% · 2025 77%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $209k → $297k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
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.
Government funding DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$21.3M
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 DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION 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
81% 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 DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC: 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 DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC?
- DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,626,597 to it, the largest being Friends of Acadia ($1,626,597). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,626,597 in grants to DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION INC?
- Friends of Acadia is the largest funder on record, with $1,626,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNEAST TRANSPORTATION 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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