Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL
MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Maine Local Living School does
Mission
Our mission is to nurture the human-earth relationship through the practice of living locally. We share traditional and contemporary skills for living wisely in our place. It is our belief that through living locally we can invigorate a world-view of gratitude and responsibility toward human and earth communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Homestead Immersion: The multi-day immersion experientially connects high school and college students to ecological, historical and social aspects of place. The program stretches youth to do real work in community, explore their potential as agents of positive change in an ecosystem, and develop strong relationships with the earth and each other. Each program is embedded in seasonal rhythms and incorporates regenerative organic agriculture and food preservation; appropriate technology; climate change mitigation and adaptation; ecology, botany, and forestry; handcraft; social and emotional learning; and silence, observation, and reflection.
$36,600 spentof which $36,600 as grants42% of program spendingDay Programs for Schools & Earth Is Our Home: Day programs for school groups engage ecology, history, sustainable systems, and handcraft to help students better understand themselves and their place in the earth community. Lessons are experiential and place-based. Students not only learn about ecological principles, they participate in the ecosystem as a place of sustenance that provides for their core needs. Lessons align with Common Core or Next Generation Science Standards to support learning goals. Earth Is Our Home is a bi-weekly program for homeschooling elementary-aged children.
$28,226 spentof which $28,226 as grants32% of program spendingApprenticeship & Community Programs for adults: The 8-week spring and fall Apprenticeship provides hands-on training for energy downshift, climate resilience, bioregionalism, community living, land ethics, and reciprocity with the living world. The day-to-day revolves around building skills and tending the systems that reflect these big ideas--and sharing learning with others through educational programming. Community Programs provide an opportunity to learn or practice a skill to deepen relationship with earth and other-than-human communities. Workshops focus on cultivating, foraging or processing food; handcraft; or the practice of meditation or yoga.
$23,100 spentof which $23,100 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,926.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $49k to $100k (+105%).
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.
33% of MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Christopher Knapp
Executive Director
Board chair
Leza Packard
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $16k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL’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 LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL: 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 LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL?
- MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,750 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $58,750 in grants to MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $32,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE LOCAL LIVING SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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