Maine · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA
FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,550 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($145,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Friends of the Harriet L Hartley Conservation Area does
Mission
The purpose of the coporation is to advocate for the health and preservation of the midcoast maine coastline, rivers and coastal watersheds - in particular the little river and its adjacent intertidal estuary in penobscot bay - through science, education and providing assistance, including the financial assistance for litigation purposes, to those seeking to protect and preserve the harriet l. Hartley conservation area from actions deemed detrimental to this fragile intertidal estuary in its natural condition. It is a further purpose to restore the little river as a natural fishway. Friends of the harriet l. Hartley conservation area is organized and operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes in accordance with section 501(c)(3) for the internal revenue code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The friends hosted a public presentation at the site of the conservation area announcing the formation of the friends, describing the history of the conservation area, its boundaries, and encouraging membership. The friends placed permanent visible markers in the ground defining the boundary of the conservation property. The friends established a visible presence in downtown belfast, maine at the commons. Current activities include: ongoing public education by volunteer members of the conservation area about the environmental and ecological importance of intertidal zones in general; continuing public education about how to use and at the same time protect this fragile but ecologically important area; use of the commons as a focal point where the public is invited to come for educational materials and discussions.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 $57k to $101k (+77%).
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 FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $40k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA’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
FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2022 81% · 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
100% of FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k 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
FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA has grown faster than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA?
- FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,550 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($145,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $217,550 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE HARRIET L HARTLEY CONSERVATION AREA 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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