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George Stevens Academy

George Stevens Academy (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524,941 to it, the largest being BECTON FAMILY FOUNDATION SHEILA HEATTER TRUSTEE ($313,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.9M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$14M
22/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What George Stevens Academy does

Mission

George Stevens's Academy is an independent high school located on the coast of Maine. Grounded in its traditions and commitment to the area's small towns. The Academy is a caring educational community invested in meeting the needs of each student. The Academy offers a challenging comprehensive program of studies that fosters intellectual inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, inspires creativity, develops self-reliance, and prepares its graduates for a purposeful life in an ever-changing world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide secondary education to approximately 225 students.

    $4,010,979 spent$4,304,679 earned by the program
    95% of program spending
  2. Provide financial assistance to graduating students who are furthering their education. Scholarships are granted on the basis of merit and type of continuing education.

    $232,740 spentof which $232,740 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,243,719.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.1M) Expenses 100 ($5.9M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2019 Revenue 96 ($5.9M) Expenses 102 ($6.1M) Net assets 102 ($13M)2020 Revenue 96 ($5.9M) Expenses 98 ($5.8M) Net assets 102 ($13M)2021 Revenue 102 ($6.2M) Expenses 101 ($6.0M) Net assets 113 ($15M)2022 Revenue 119 ($7.3M) Expenses 102 ($6.0M) Net assets 95 ($12M)2023 Revenue 83 ($5.1M) Expenses 108 ($6.4M) Net assets 93 ($12M)2024 Revenue 95 ($5.8M) Expenses 92 ($5.5M) Net assets 102 ($13M)2025 Revenue 97 ($5.9M) Expenses 90 ($5.3M) Net assets 109 ($14M)
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Revenue (97)Expenses (90)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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 $16M to $14M (−11%).

$16M
$15M
$15M
$16M
$14M
$14M
$14M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of George Stevens Academy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$187k
’17
−$207k
’19
$38k
’20
$243k
’21
$1.2M
’22
−$1.3M
’23
$336k
’24
$639k
’25
3.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Deb Ludlow

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1716181821202016
Joined··+4+1+10+2+5+4
No longer listed··217358
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $21k → $235k.

6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 George Stevens Academy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

George Stevens Academy has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

28% 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 George Stevens Academy.

21%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 82% · 2019 52% · 2020 28% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 37% — 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

71% of George Stevens Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

George Stevens Academy draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 13 states in all.

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

George Stevens Academy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like George Stevens Academy

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds George Stevens Academy?
George Stevens Academy (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,524,941 to it, the largest being BECTON FAMILY FOUNDATION SHEILA HEATTER TRUSTEE ($313,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does George Stevens Academy have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,524,941 in grants to George Stevens Academy, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of George Stevens Academy?
BECTON FAMILY FOUNDATION SHEILA HEATTER TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $313,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like George Stevens Academy 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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