Maine · Nonprofit
Ketcha Outdoors
Ketcha Outdoors (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726,025 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($1,175,056). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Ketcha Outdoors does
Mission
To provide equitable access to outdoor experiences and gear, promoting well-being, sustainability and resilient communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer Day Camp is designed for kids, ages 4-14, and from all backgrounds and communities to be outdoors and active together, while building a strong sense of community and respect for the natural environment. This direct recreational experience develops friendship skills, and competence in outdoor pursuits such as swimming, archery, hiking and climbing techniques. In addition, kids are taught about conservation and sustainability through our environmental education program.
$750,930 spent$1,651,147 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe Portland Gear Hub powered by Ketcha Outdoors is a full-service outdoor gear store in the East Bayside neighborhood of Portland. The Gear Hub refurbishes and redistributes reliable outdoor gear and bikes to increase equitable access to affordable, reliable gear and lower the barrier of entry for those interested in outdoor recreation and/or sustainable transportation. The Gear Hub's staff and volunteers also provide free and low-cost bicycle maintenance classes for youth and adults.
$468,411 spent$403,490 earned by the program28% of program spendingAfter School Care: After school students participate in outdoor activities with a different theme each day, for example: Arts and Crafts, Farm and Garden, Sports, Wilderness Exploration, STEM activities and free choice Friday. We also incorporate social emotional learning topics into our daily programming.Farm & Forest Preschool: Unique outdoor programming is offered in our nature-based preschool for kids ages 3-5. We practice place-based teaching, rooted in the Reggio Emilia approach, throughout our 107 acres of forest, fields, farm, and waterways. Our students are active outdoors year-round and in all types of weather, playing, learning, hiking and spending time at our farm and garden.
$446,744 spent$61,087 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,666,085.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $2.4M (+61%).
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.
25% of Ketcha Outdoors’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Laragh Kavanagh
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $46k → $38k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 Ketcha Outdoors’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
Ketcha Outdoors leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 Ketcha Outdoors.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 38% · 2019 62% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 98% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of Ketcha Outdoors's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
75% of Ketcha Outdoors'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 $432k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Ketcha Outdoors runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ketcha Outdoors
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
- 155 Washington LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors?
- Ketcha Outdoors (Maine) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726,025 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($1,175,056). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ketcha Outdoors have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,726,025 in grants to Ketcha Outdoors, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ketcha Outdoors?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,056 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ketcha Outdoors 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 32 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