Maine · Nonprofit
Kieve Wavus Education Inc
Kieve Wavus Education Inc (Maine) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,664,284 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,193,425). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Kieve Wavus Education Inc does
Mission
Kieve Wavus Education is guided by its mission: to empower people to contribute positively to society by promoting the values of kindness, respect for others, and environmental stewardship through year-round experiential programs, camps for youth and adults, and guidance through experiential programs led by inspirational role models.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Boys Camp - Traditional summer camp, experiential education in outdoor setting. 618 campers were in the 2023 camp program.Founded in 1926, Kieve is a boys' summer camp on Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro, Maine. Kieve is a Celtic verb meaning to strive in emulation of to work hard to acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes from others so as to improve yourself and the program is built on this foundation, providing a staff full of tremendous role models worthy of emulation. Campers ranging from 8-17 years old experience a wide variety of in-camp activities and a set of increasingly longer and more challenging wilderness trips as they get older.
$3,270,850 spentof which $380,634 as grants$4,376,072 earned by the program35% of program spendingGirls Camp: Traditional summer camp, experiential education in outdoor setting. 559 campers were in the 2023 camp program.Our campers, ranging from 8-17 years old, experience a wide variety of traditional in-camp activities and a unique series of wilderness tripping adventures that increase in challenge as they grow older. Our girls return year after year to test themselves and to bond with their cabin mates while each girl discovers that there is more grit and grace within her than she could have imagined. We develop leaders with a sense of self and who possess the strength of character necessary to meet the challenges of the world in which they live. We honor the words of Helen Keller "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
$2,945,443 spentof which $338,338 as grants$3,889,812 earned by the program31% of program spendingFacilitate Events & Retreats: The Leadership School (TLS) - Non-traditional limited purpose educational school teaching leadership skills to middle school aged children. Making good decisions and the consequences of poor decisions is the primary focus. In a typical year, Kieve-Wavus Education (KWE) sees over 200 contracted programs serving more than 10,000 boys, girls and visiting teachers at, on average, a 60% scholarship rate.(Continued on Schedule O)Educators In Residence (EIR): Trained faculty of TLS were provided to Maine public schools with a total student body of almost 3,000 for ten to twenty weeks. The EIR program was tailored to meet the needs of each school, but primary emphasis was to reinforce the TLS principals stressed to the students who had attended the TLS residential program and with other grade levels and teachers throughout each school. This program had a 90% scholarship rate.Youth-oriented nonprofit programs - KWE to host leadership retreats and training for local community organizations such as "Out as I want to be."
$2,772,700 spentof which $518,527 as grants$1,656,563 earned by the program29% of program spendingOther Programs - Kennedy Learning Center & Jewell Lodge.The Kennedy Learning Center is a place where work teams visit to learn and grow, where groups spend time to think and create, and where families come together to celebrate and share.After an eventful and joyous camp season, the Wavus campus becomes a place of transformation and relaxation for others with a similar mission to strengthen individuals and community. Through KWE sponsored programs as well as those hosted for other non-profit programs, such as For Pete's Sake and Maine Adaptive, the Wavus campus and its Jewell Lodge are remarkable spaces for large group retreats.
$488,164 spent$7,602 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,477,157.
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 2018 to 2019, from $37M to $41M (+10%).
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.
15% of Kieve Wavus Education Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $293k → $697k.
18 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Kieve Wavus Education Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
Kieve Wavus Education Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
54% 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 Kieve Wavus Education Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 51% · 2019 64% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — 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
46% of Kieve Wavus Education Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
53% of Kieve Wavus Education Inc'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Kieve Wavus Education Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Kieve Wavus Education 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc?
- Kieve Wavus Education Inc (Maine) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,664,284 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,193,425). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kieve Wavus Education Inc have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $4,664,284 in grants to Kieve Wavus Education Inc, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kieve Wavus Education Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,193,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kieve Wavus Education Inc 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 80 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing