Maine · Nonprofit
FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC
FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,181 to it, the largest being MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $378k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Francis Small Heritage Trust Inc does
Mission
The Francis Small Heritage Trust protects wildlife habitat, watersheds, forests, and farms in southwestern Maine to support conservation, climate resilience, low-impact recreation, traditional uses, environmental education, and to honor Indigenous connections to the land.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FSHT performed due diligence towards purchase of new properties for public use expected to close in 2026. These parcels will provide a direct connection to existing properties which guarantees connectivity for wildlife and trails. This land will be open to the public for low-impact recreation including hiking and hunting and some will be permanently protected by a project agreement with the Maine Land for Maine's Future Program and/or a permanent conservation easement. FSHT also accepted in 2025 a donated Conservation Easement on 36.5 acres in Standish Maine. No asset value for the easement is carried on the books.
$26,289 spent46% of program spendingProvided stewardship, education, and outreach on approximately 3,194 acres of land in and around Limington, Limerick, Baldwin, Porter, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Waterboro, Standish, and Cornish, Maine. These properties conserve natural resources and provide for public access, enjoyment, and education. Stewardship included land taxes, and trail maintenance. The statewide recognized resource has an estimated 5,000 visitors a year, including school groups. Outreach included distributing 1,000 free hiking maps to the public, all to encourage hiking in the area. Granted $1,100 to the Town of Limington as Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT). The organization also paid local property taxes of $10,501 in Limerick, Baldwin, Parsonsfield, Porter, Waterboro, and Cornish even though the organization could be technically exempted from such taxes.
$22,774 spentof which $1,100 as grants40% of program spendingContinued our education outreach to local schools the "Sense of Place" program. Approximately 120 students were served by the program. We also worked on a "Forest Carbon Workshop" area on Sawyer Mountain where the public can measure the carbon content of the forest and can investigate ways to manage a forest for maximum carbon sequestration. Approximately twenty volunteers established the program and the forest plots are open to the public. FSHT also published a newsletter which offered directions and descriptions of our local hiking trails. This newsletter was distributed to approximately 14,000 addresses.
$7,843 spent14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,906.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $2.2M (+50%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 10% · 2023 80% · 2024 24% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $12k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 26% · 2021 69% · 2022 51% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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 FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
59% of FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST 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. $85k 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
FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC?
- FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC (Maine) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,181 to it, the largest being MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $378,181 in grants to FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC?
- MOMENTUM CONSERVATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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