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KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,005 to it, the largest being Waterhouse Youth Endowment Fund ($115,942). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$463k
Net assets
$2.2M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association does

Mission

The mission of the Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association (kbia) is to create safe, supportive, and exciting "summers of discovery" for children and their families, through high quality affordable educational and enrichment programs taught by experienced and dedicated staff. In addition we strive to maintain our historical role since 1910 as environmental stewards of the unique and natural resources that are "mother's beach and "the cove", standing firmly behind the limitations on commercial development. We will be true to our values of inclusiveness, integrity, financial stability, charity and the importance of tradition. We will insure that kbia endures and is a respected contributor to the kennebunk beach and the kennebunk area community for generations to come.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Art programs which include creative arts, craftmeisters, fabric arts, digital design, drama, leathercrafts, woodworking, painting, pottery, sand creations, titles/tidepools, and jewelry

    $77,183 spent$99,631 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

  2. Sports programs which include fitness, basketball, tennis, surfing, and golf.

    $109,537 spent$114,485 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

  3. Waterfront programs

    $205,580 spent$127,047 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

  4. Pool programs which include swimming, private lessons, water polo and diving

    $194,945 spent$87,188 earned by the program
    19% of program spending

  5. Academic programs which include cove walks, nature, marine bio, reading, and whales

    $53,782 spent$37,171 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

  6. Trips which include fishing, critter cruise, island exploration, and seals.

    $4,389 spent$2,375 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  7. Various other programs

    $393,389 spent$231,339 earned by the program
    38% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,038,805.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($677k) Expenses 100 ($652k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 105 ($710k) Expenses 107 ($698k) Net assets 99 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 104 ($703k) Expenses 109 ($708k) Net assets 103 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 57 ($384k) Expenses 63 ($414k) Net assets 104 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 132 ($897k) Expenses 126 ($822k) Net assets 115 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 128 ($865k) Expenses 140 ($914k) Net assets 104 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 157 ($1.1M) Expenses 164 ($1.1M) Net assets 106 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 260 ($1.8M) Expenses 181 ($1.2M) Net assets 148 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (260)Expenses (181)Net assets (148)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+39%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$2.2M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$12k
’18
−$6k
’19
−$30k
’20
$75k
’21
−$49k
’22
−$6k
’23
$579k
’24
5.1
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.

Chief executive

Mimi Fox

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1715161616171616
Joined·+4+1+3+1+3+8+3
No longer listed·6031293
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $375 → $38k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
5
7
4

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’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

KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

60% 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 KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

25%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 71% · 2022 71% · 2023 63% — 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

50% of KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

60% of KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $183k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
CT
DE

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

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’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k 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

Organizations like KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

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

Kennebunk Free Library Association83%Chebeague Recreation Center Inc78%Kittery Land Trust Inc78%Kennebec Mental Health Associates78%Kennebunk Land Trust78%Southern Kennebec Child Development76%Kennebunkport Conservation Trust76%Kennebunkport Historical Society76%

Nationally

Kennebunk Free Library Association83%The Longboat Key Education Center Inc79%Kennett Education Foundation Inc78%Chebeague Recreation Center Inc78%Kittery Land Trust Inc78%Kennebec Mental Health Associates78%Kennett Area Park and Recreation Board78%Kennebunk Land Trust78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kbia Charitable Holdings Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,005 to it, the largest being Waterhouse Youth Endowment Fund ($115,942). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $463,005 in grants to KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
Waterhouse Youth Endowment Fund is the largest funder on record, with $115,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENNEBUNK BEACH IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 9 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