Maine · Nonprofit
FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED
FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being B STREET FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Frenchman Bay United does
Mission
Opposition to the industrialization of frenchman bay
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Frenchman Bay United is a broad coalition of groups and individuals that have come together to oppose the american aquafarms proposal for an industrial fish farm in frenchman bay and to preserve the balance of uses and interests that has existed in the bay for generations.
$21,505 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,505.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $162k to $73k (−55%).
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.
100% of FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED’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
FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 3 states in all.
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.
Against its field
FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED: 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 FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED?
- FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being B STREET FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED?
- B STREET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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