Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC
GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,611 to it, the largest being TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Gulf of Maine Institute Inc does
Mission
To touch, move, and inspire young people, in partnership with adults, to lead in stewardship of the gulf of maine and its watershed (an area that stretches from cape cod to the southwestern tip of nova scotia).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Development of community-based initiative teams throughout the gulf of maine watershed via local environmental groups and school systems.
$61,059 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,059.
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 2017 to 2018, from $10k to $66k (+585%).
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 GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Anne Giblin
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $55k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE 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
GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 66% · 2020 88% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 36% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $269k on record.
- Department of Commerce$269k
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 GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC
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 Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC: 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 GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC?
- GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,611 to it, the largest being TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $205,611 in grants to GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC?
- TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 6 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