Maine · Nonprofit
Maine Space Grant Consortium
Maine Space Grant Consortium (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $484,923 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($484,923). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $485k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Maine Space Grant Consortium does
Mission
Our mission is to: improve our affiliates' research infrastructure in areas of mutual interest to NASA and the State of Maine; encourage more students to consider careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); (Continued on Schedule O)(Mission Statement Continued) and enhance NASA's presence throughout the State of Maine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) is an affiliate-based 501(c)(3) corporation and a member of the National Network of Consortia in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The Network is funded by NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program which was established by Congress in 1988 to contribute to the nation's science and engineering enterprise.Our affiliates are undergraduate and graduate institutions, not-for-profit research laboratories, state agencies, technology-based businesses, and science and education organizations, all of whom help further NASA's goals while benefiting Maine in many different areas of science and technology. (Program Service Accomplishments Continued) Below are our goals and objectives, and overall results.Our overarching goal is to support the expansion and diversification of Maine's space exploration research and education capacity along the K-graduate continuum by increasing statewide involvement in space research, technology development, education and training programs that align with NASA's priorities and contribute to Maine's competitive advantage in a new space economy as envisioned by the Maine Spaceport…
$1,688,566 spentof which $1,304,920 as grants$81,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,688,566.
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 $250k to $475k (+90%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Maine Space Grant Consortium’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% 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.
Chief executive
Dr Terry Shehata
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Jeremy Qualls
Chair (end 12/2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $284k.
From the IRS filings of Maine Space Grant Consortium’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Maine Space Grant Consortium's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Space Grant Consortium's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Maine Space Grant Consortium receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.2M on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$12.6M
- Department of Commerce$1.6M
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 Space Grant Consortium
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
92% 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 Space Grant Consortium: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Maine Space Grant Consortium?
- Maine Space Grant Consortium (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $484,923 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($484,923). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Space Grant Consortium have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $484,923 in grants to Maine Space Grant Consortium, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Space Grant Consortium?
- Maine Technology Institute is the largest funder on record, with $484,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Space Grant Consortium 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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