Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE
MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,513 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($146,842). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $389k
- Net assets
- $210k
What Maine Grain Alliance does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire and empower people who are building local grain economies. We create connections and share grain traditions and innovations from earth to table. We provide opportunities to learn and share how best to grow and use grains, using a combination of traditional, innovative, and sustainable techniques. The alliance promotes beneficial uses of grain for good health, food independence, and purposeful jobs within viable communities. The alliance connects people and supports the economic, environmental, and nutritional importance for establishing regional grain economies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kneading and bread conference - the annual kneading conference brings together farmers, professional and home bakers, chefs, cooks, grain researchers, maltsters, food entrepreneurs, and wood-fired oven enthusiasts to educate one another about the art and science of growing and milling grains and baking artisan breads. The annual artisan bread fair is a free summer festival offering wood-fired oven demonstrations, artisan bread samplings, and opportunities to talk with professional bakers and explore the best books, tools, and delicious accoutrements to whole grain and conventional bread baking.
$115,208 spent$76,300 earned by the program64% of program spendingEducation and events - provide grain and baking education programs through live and online workshops, baking tips, free learning resources, videos, handbooks and more provided by experts in the field.
$19,223 spent$12,087 earned by the program11% of program spendingGrain community support - restore rare and heritage variety grains by turning handfuls of carefully kept seed into commercially viable quantities for farms.
$45,092 spent$2,487 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,523.
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 $143k to $275k (+92%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Tristan Noyes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $61k → $10k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 GRAIN ALLIANCE’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
MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 GRAIN ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 66% · 2019 83% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 GRAIN ALLIANCE's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 GRAIN ALLIANCE: 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 GRAIN ALLIANCE?
- MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $388,513 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($146,842). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $388,513 in grants to MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE?
- Maine Technology Institute is the largest funder on record, with $146,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE GRAIN ALLIANCE 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 7 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