Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Mountain Collaborative
Maine Mountain Collaborative (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,823 to it, the largest being EJK Foundation ($259,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $184k
What Maine Mountain Collaborative does
Mission
Through collaboration of land conservation and forestry organizations MMC innovates and accelerates land conservation in the 5 million-acre Maine Appalachian Mountain Corridor.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided $110,000 in Transaction Fund grants to five land conservation projects in Maine's Northern Appalachian Mountain Corridor that will permanently conserve 52,000 acres of ecologically valuable undeveloped forest. Launched the Exemplary Forestry Investment Fund an impact-first timber investment fund meant to blend impact investment and tangible environmental outcomes for Maine's forests. The first property-specific fund, Scammon Ridge Headwaters LLC, purchased and conserved 3,000 acres in Greenville Maine near Moosehead Lake for sustainable forestry, public access, and improved wildlife habitat. Convened the eleven Maine Mountain Collaborative member organizations to share information about emerging conservation projects, common challenges, and emerging opportunities. This level of collaboration has led to new conservation projects that may not otherwise have been possible. Served on the Conservation Delegation to the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship to provide coordination and collaboration between Wabanaki Nations in Maine and the conservation community.
$315,304 spentof which $110,865 as grants$125 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $315,304.
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 2023 to 2024, from $370k to $184k (−50%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 32% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Maine Mountain Collaborative’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. 3 of the last 8 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
John Bryan Wentzell
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Perschel
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $120k → $350k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $321k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research). These are real filings, and they are not money Maine Mountain Collaborative raised.
From the IRS filings of Maine Mountain Collaborative’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 Mountain Collaborative has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
45% 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 Mountain Collaborative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 65% · 2022 37% · 2023 71% — 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
17% of Maine Mountain Collaborative's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 Mountain Collaborative draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Mountain Collaborative's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Maine Mountain Collaborative receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$300k
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 Mountain Collaborative
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Exemplary Forestry Management Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Mountain Collaborative: 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 Mountain Collaborative?
- Maine Mountain Collaborative (Maine) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,823 to it, the largest being EJK Foundation ($259,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Mountain Collaborative have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,366,823 in grants to Maine Mountain Collaborative, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Mountain Collaborative?
- EJK Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $259,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Mountain Collaborative 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 12 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