Maine · Nonprofit
Ecology Education Inc
Ecology Education Inc (Maine) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,804,366 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL E OFFUTT III CHARITABLE TRUST ($600,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Ecology Education Inc does
Mission
The Ecology School inspires stewardship of and connection to the natural world through experiential learning in ecology, conservation, farming, and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Ecology School studies the relationships that all living organisms have with one another and with our shared environment. We explore ways that we can build communities that sustain the ecosystems that in turn sustain us, and we approach the science of ecology through wide-eyed, hands-on exploration of the ecosystems outside our door. We make nature's lessons memorable with play, humor, and games, and make those lessons applicable with real life models of sustainable farming and living. The School promotes such stewardship through the maintenance of immersive educational programs, summer schools, and student camps, through collaborations with teachers, and through support of River Bend Farm, a sustainable property that features trails, dormitories, seminar spaces, clean energy, and organic farming.
$2,526,909 spentof which $223,099 as grants$1,296,033 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,526,909.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $14M (+199%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 15% · 2023 9% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Ecology Education Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Andrew Dumsch
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $116k → $498k.
7 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Ecology Education Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
Ecology Education Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% 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 Ecology Education Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 19% · 2021 62% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
67% of Ecology Education 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
Ecology Education Inc draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $409k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Ecology Education Inc's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Ecology Education Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $443k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$343k
- Environmental Protection Agency$100k
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 Ecology Education 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
96%
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 Ecology Education 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 Ecology Education Inc?
- Ecology Education Inc (Maine) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,804,366 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL E OFFUTT III CHARITABLE TRUST ($600,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ecology Education Inc have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,804,366 in grants to Ecology Education Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ecology Education Inc?
- THE DANIEL E OFFUTT III CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ecology Education 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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