Maine · Nonprofit
INLAND WOODS TRAILS
INLAND WOODS TRAILS (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,778 to it, the largest being RHOADS JR JAY-ENVIRONMENTAL FUND TR ($305,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INLAND WOODS TRAILS has grown faster than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Clarence E Mulford Trustlocal
- American Trailsportfolio match
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of INLAND WOODS TRAILS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $127k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 INLAND WOODS TRAILS’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
INLAND WOODS TRAILS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 INLAND WOODS TRAILS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 57% · 2019 29% · 2020 55% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 45% — 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
31% of INLAND WOODS TRAILS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
INLAND WOODS TRAILS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Clarence E Mulford TrustlocalME · funds 12 organizations near you
- American Trailsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Trail Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Choose Outdoors Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Switzerland County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersME · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- Wescustogo Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding INLAND WOODS TRAILS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
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 INLAND WOODS TRAILS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INLAND WOODS TRAILS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INLAND WOODS TRAILS?
- INLAND WOODS TRAILS (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,778 to it, the largest being RHOADS JR JAY-ENVIRONMENTAL FUND TR ($305,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INLAND WOODS TRAILS have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,710,778 in grants to INLAND WOODS TRAILS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INLAND WOODS TRAILS?
- RHOADS JR JAY-ENVIRONMENTAL FUND TR is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INLAND WOODS TRAILS 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.
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 27funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing