Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,292 to it, the largest being Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $233k
- Net assets
- $682k
What Maine Lobster Community Alliance does
Mission
The mlca's mission is to foster thriving coastal communities and preserve maine's lobstering heritage. Mlca is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which achieves its charitable mission through programs in education, research and charity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Preserve maine's lobstering heritagethe Maine Lobster Community Alliance (mlca) advances the preservation of maine's lobstering heritage through its monthly newspaper, landings. This publication serves as a key educational platform, informing both the public and industry stakeholders about the distinct traditions, history, and cultural significance of maine's lobster fishery. It also highlights current scientific research supporting long-term resource sustainability, as well as the industry's responsible, non-wasteful harvesting practices. Landings reaches more than 6,500 readers, including individuals, businesses, and government entities committed to the future of maine's lobster industry and coastal communities. Current and archived issues are accessible in a searchable format at mlcalliance.org.support lobstering communities the mlca collaborates with other non-profit organizations and fishing organizations that share a committee to sustainable fisheries, resilient coastal communities, and protecting access to the fishery for future generations. Through active participation in meetings and ongoing stakeholder engagement, mlca supports maine's working waterfront, advances…
$197,341 spent$83,498 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,341.
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 2024 to 2025, from $432k to $694k (+60%).
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: 2024 1% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE’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. 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.
Board chair
Kristan Porter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $70k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LOBSTER COMMUNITY 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 LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% 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
93% of MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY 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. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE?
- MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,292 to it, the largest being Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $233,292 in grants to MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE?
- Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE LOBSTER COMMUNITY 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 9 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