Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE PRESERVATION
MAINE PRESERVATION (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,460,417 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($673,050). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Maine Preservation does
Mission
Maine Preservation promotes and preserves historic places, buildings, downtowns and neighborhoods, stenghtening the cultural and economic vitality of maine communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maine Preservation provides field services offered assistance to 150 projects for communities, nonprofits and individuals to help preserve historic buildings. Field service advisors visited communities and landmark properties to advise building stewards on next steps toward rehabilitating historic structures in maine.
$35,559 spent$9,727 earned by the program12% of program spendingProtect and sell program - Maine Preservations's protect and sell program assists in the sale of historic buildings to new owners who agree to preserve and rehabilitate them subject to perpetual historic preservation easements. Additional easements are donated to the organization.
$57,743 spent$46,162 earned by the program20% of program spendingState historic tax credits - Maine Preservation works with entities seeking to use the state historic tax credit, is a partner in 3 projects, and receives and disburses the credit to eligible entities.
$17,903 spent$1,364 earned by the program6% of program spendingAnnual meeting occurs each year convening membership to elect members of the board of trustees, report on organizational issues, and provide educational sessions. Honor awards recognize owners, craftsmen, and steward organizations and individuals responsible for preservation of historic buildings in maine. Most endangered maine historic places list is a widely distributed annual compilation of at-risk historic buildings and issues in the state of maine. Outreach - staff regularly participate as speakers in conferences, workshops, lectures, town or organizational meetings, and other educational events to share expertise and offer guidance.
$174,247 spent61% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,452.
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 2020 to 2021, from $908k to $1.1M (+18%).
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 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of MAINE PRESERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $57k → $249k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PRESERVATION’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 PRESERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 PRESERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 51% · 2019 37% · 2020 59% · 2021 50% · 2022 59% · 2023 61% — 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
40% of MAINE PRESERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 PRESERVATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k 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 PRESERVATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MAINE PRESERVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
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 PRESERVATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mp Bates Mill LLC · disregarded
- Mp Sullivan School LLC · disregarded
- Mp Diamond Cove LLC · disregarded
- Mp Boiler House LLC · disregarded
- Mp Hunt Block LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE PRESERVATION: 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 PRESERVATION?
- MAINE PRESERVATION (Maine) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,460,417 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($673,050). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE PRESERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,460,417 in grants to MAINE PRESERVATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE PRESERVATION?
- 1772 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $673,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE PRESERVATION 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 27 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