Maine · Nonprofit
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,981 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($400,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Great Works Regional Land Trust does
Mission
Conservation properties, oversight of conservation easements and activities for the public on conservation lands
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Worked to acquire additional conservation lands in the sourrounding areas
$30,965 spent5% of program spendingRan programs & activities open to the public on trust owned properties published their seasonal newsletters providing information about trust, conservation issues and local agriculture, provided community garden space in ogunquit.
$13,352 spent$11,872 earned by the program2% of program spendingMonitored conservation easements and fee owned properties. Maintained and expanded trails, buildings and parking areas on these properties. Conducted forest management activities. Paid property taxes on trust owned lands.
$576,042 spent93% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $620,359.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $12M (+152%).
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: 2017 4% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST’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. 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
Jordan Kelley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $136k → $91k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST’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
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 44% · 2019 42% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 55% · 2023 28% — 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
28% of GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST'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
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $412k 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.
Against its field
GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of the Interior$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 GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST?
- GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,981 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($400,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,086,981 in grants to GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST?
- EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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