Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Huts & Trails
Maine Huts & Trails (Maine) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,136,054 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($710,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Maine Huts & Trails does
Mission
MHT envisions a future where more individuals, schools, groups, and families can experience enriching, even life changing backcountry experiences. MHT seeks to increase access to the outdoors, inspire more people to explore and cherish the natural beauty of Maine, enhance our role in the local and regional outdoor recreation landscape.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maine Huts Trails mission is to connect people to nature, to one another, and to the enduring responsibility of caring for the land by expanding access to Maines backcountry. The organization stands for A Expanding access by building and maintaining the pathways that open the outdoors to everyone B Inspiring a love for nature and discovery through encouraging visitors of all ages to explore, learn, and grow, and C Building something enduring a healthier, more connected region rooted in stewardship and sustainability. In 2025 MHT hosted 1390 guests to the huts during the winter season and welcomed 34 youth and community groups to the huts, at a subsidized cost to make the opportunities more accessible, creating unique backcountry experiences for nearly 800 youth and adults during the summer and fall. And multitudes more people hiked, cross country skied, snowshoed, and biked MHTs 50 miles of trails experiencing western Maines extraordinary forests, mountains, and waters at no charge.
$354,177 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $354,177.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.9M to $4.4M (−11%).
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: 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Maine Huts & Trails’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Wolfe Tone
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Peixotto
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $112k → $287k.
10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Huts & Trails’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 Huts & Trails has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
69% 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 Huts & Trails.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% — 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
28% of Maine Huts & Trails's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
67% of Maine Huts & Trails'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 $701k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 Huts & Trails runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Maine Huts & Trails
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
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Huts & Trails: 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 Huts & Trails?
- Maine Huts & Trails (Maine) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,136,054 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($710,650). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Maine Huts & Trails have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,136,054 in grants to Maine Huts & Trails, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Huts & Trails?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $710,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Huts & Trails 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 43 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