Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN
MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN (Maine) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,343,359 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,665,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Maine Technology Institutelocalportfolio match
- United Way Incshared funderslocal
- The Aldermere Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 16% · 2018 9% · 2020 24% · 2021 0% · 2022 31% · 2023 24% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $614k → $1.9M.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 COAST FISHERMENS ASSN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 COAST FISHERMENS ASSN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 COAST FISHERMENS ASSN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 27% · 2019 64% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 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
53% of MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN'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
MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M 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.
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 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Maine Technology Institutelocalportfolio matchME · funds 426 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Incshared funderslocalME · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you
- The Aldermere Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Granite Point Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brook Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reny Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Wescustogo Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organizationshared funderslocalME · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you
- Quimby Family Foundationshared fundersME · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared fundersME · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $579k on record.
- Department of Commerce$579k
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 COAST FISHERMENS ASSN
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN?
- MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN (Maine) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,343,359 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,665,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $9,343,359 in grants to MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,665,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN 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 53funders 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