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LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM

LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,270,316 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($931,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$506k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$616k
Net assets
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%

Against its field

LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM is better cushioned than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−50% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($481k) Expenses 100 ($383k) Net assets 100 ($375k)2018 Revenue 100 ($482k) Expenses 125 ($481k) Net assets 100 ($377k)2019 Revenue 141 ($677k) Expenses 128 ($492k) Net assets 150 ($562k)2020 Revenue 113 ($542k) Expenses 127 ($488k) Net assets 164 ($616k)2021 Revenue 121 ($581k) Expenses 132 ($506k) Net assets 184 ($691k)2022 Revenue 156 ($752k) Expenses 171 ($655k) Net assets 210 ($788k)2023 Revenue 139 ($666k) Expenses 153 ($587k) Net assets 231 ($868k)2024 Revenue 105 ($506k) Expenses 198 ($758k) Net assets 164 ($616k)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (198)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 56% · 2020 50% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% · 2023 41% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$97k
17
$2k
18
$185k
19
$53k
20
$76k
21
$97k
22
$80k
23
$252k
24
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $230k → $120k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)74% 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 LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM’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

LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM.

73%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 88% · 2019 82% · 2020 52% · 2021 60% · 2022 90% · 2023 42%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

27% of LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM'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 $333k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Maine funders.

ME
NY
MA
CA

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

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $938k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 10%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM: 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 LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM?
LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM (Maine) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,270,316 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($931,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,270,316 in grants to LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM?
Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $931,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE STEWARDS OF MAINE - MAINE VOLUNTEER LAKE MONITORING PROGRAM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15funders 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