Maine · Nonprofit
JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION
JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,178 to it, the largest being QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $0
What Juniper Hill School for Place Based Education does
Mission
Juniper hill school for place-based education connects children to themselves, to each other, and to their communities through studying both natural and human environments. Utilitizing integrated, acedemic and social curriculum, and immersion in the real world around them. We strive to create peaceful, creative, loving children, who are becoming masters of their own learning and actively helping to make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Juniper hill school is a nature-based, place-based, pre- and elementary school, currently serving nearly twenty four students, ages 3-10 year olds (prek-4th grade).
$59,077 spent$82,606 earned by the program100% of program spendingProviding consulting services to assist childcare administrators, teachers (public and private sectors), education students, professionals in education, health professionals, and community members to understand the work of place-based education elementary school and nature-based early childhood programming and to support and help create elements of nature-based early childhood programming and place-based education in other programs, organizations, and schools.
$10,100 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,077.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $137k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Warren Miskell
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $5.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION’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
JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
48% 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 JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2019 77% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Organizations like JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION: 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 JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION?
- JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,178 to it, the largest being QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $100,178 in grants to JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION?
- QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIPER HILL SCHOOL FOR PLACE BASED EDUCATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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