Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Audubon Society
Maine Audubon Society (Maine) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,853,073 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($1,310,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Maine Audubon Society does
Mission
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and habitat.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Maine Audubon's education programs are designed to increase public environmental literacy and to impel actions such as stewardship, community science, and advocacy on behalf of Maine wildlife and wildlife habitat (see Section O for more detail).
$2,014,690 spent$280,626 earned by the program58% of program spendingConservation: Conservation Programs are designed to help protect both common and at-risk native wildlife species and habitats in Maine (see Section O for more detail).
$966,644 spent$306,700 earned by the program28% of program spendingAdvocacy: Our Advocacy program works to promote and defend laws, rules, and policies that help conserve native Maine wildlife, with a focus on issues related to our primary projects (see Section O for more detail).
$500,674 spent$3,120 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,482,008.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $23M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Maine Audubon Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Andrew Beahm
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Catania
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $175k → $948k.
18 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Maine Audubon Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
Maine Audubon Society has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
53% 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 Maine Audubon Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 41% · 2021 39% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“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
51% of Maine Audubon Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
57% of Maine Audubon Society's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Maine Audubon Society runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Maine Audubon Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Commerce$127k
- Department of Agriculture$92k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Maine Audubon Society
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Maine Audubon Society: 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 Maine Audubon Society?
- Maine Audubon Society (Maine) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,853,073 to it, the largest being Elmina B Sewall Foundation ($1,310,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Audubon Society have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $5,853,073 in grants to Maine Audubon Society, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Audubon Society?
- Elmina B Sewall Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Audubon Society 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 95 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