Maine · Nonprofit
LIFT ALL BOATS
LIFT ALL BOATS (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Lift All Boats does
Mission
To support young people's learning and exploration of the marine economy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Served 28 students, obtaining student lobster licenses teaching all how to lobster in weekly summer program.spent 1800 total hours teaching students to lobster and on wraparound professional topics.placed 5 students on professional lobster boats for full day job experiences.student trainees caught 3,088 lbs of lobster in their own traps.80% of students returned from previous year.
$195,086 spentof which $10,125 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,086.
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
Ben Conniff
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LIFT ALL BOATS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFT ALL BOATS's grant income comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LIFT ALL BOATS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFT ALL BOATS
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFT ALL BOATS: 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 LIFT ALL BOATS?
- LIFT ALL BOATS (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFT ALL BOATS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to LIFT ALL BOATS.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFT ALL BOATS?
- Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFT ALL BOATS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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