Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE-WABANAKI REACH
MAINE-WABANAKI REACH (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,903 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($282,941). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $514k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $626k
What Maine-Wabanaki Reach does
Mission
We support the self-determination of Wabanaki People through Education, Truth-Telling, Restorative Justice, and Restorative Practices in Wabanaki and Maine communities. We design out structures and processes to be responsive to Wabanaki communities and beneficial to Wabanaki People
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wabanaki wellbeing: we support wabanaki wellbeing through education, community building, reclaiming indigenous ways of knowing and being, and stewardship. We provided healing circles and sweat lodge ceremonies to native inmates in maine correctional facilities. Our food sovereignty work supports native families in building capacity to grow their own food. We successfully completed the first year of a multiyear collaborative clambed reseeding project and participated in efforts to restore the st. Croix and schoodic river fisheries. To aid in this work we created an internship position.
$110,558 spentof which $25,000 as grants$5,771 earned by the program41% of program spendingTruth telling: our second truthtellingproject, beyond the claims storiesfrom the land & the heart, engaged dozens of people fromwabanaki and maine communities in deep conversation regarding their recollection of the maine indian land claims era. We created a richonline archive from over 40 collected interviews from people in 6 communities with diverse experiences and perspectives, includingwabanaki elders, tribal chiefs, legislators, lawyers, commissioners as well as poets, culture keepers, and families impacted by the maineindian land claims for generations. We contracted with an archivist to organize the stories according to best practices. We engagedvolunteers from the wabanaki community to write and perform an original educational play based on information we gleaned from thisproject.
$86,021 spent32% of program spendingCommunity education: we seek to build broader and stronger alliances of people who understand the longterm impact of generationanal harm inflicted on indigenous people since first contact. We delivered dozens of educational programs across maine; collaborated with communities and organizations to host educational events; published monthly email news updates and engaged guest authors in providingcontent for a monthly online blog, voices of decolonization. We hosted a monthly radio talk show, dawnland signals. We maintain and update educational resources on our website. We evaluated, updated and strengthened our baseline educational program, interacting with wabanaki maine history.
$74,434 spent$48,000 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $271,013.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $248k to $692k (+179%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MAINE-WABANAKI REACH’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. 1 of the last 7 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
Esther Anne
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $487k → $242k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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-WABANAKI REACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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-WABANAKI REACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
74% 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-WABANAKI REACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 46% · 2021 39% · 2022 24% · 2023 46% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of MAINE-WABANAKI REACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
67% of MAINE-WABANAKI REACH'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 $447k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $900k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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-WABANAKI REACH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like MAINE-WABANAKI REACH
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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-WABANAKI REACH?
- MAINE-WABANAKI REACH (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,903 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($282,941). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAINE-WABANAKI REACH have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,347,903 in grants to MAINE-WABANAKI REACH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE-WABANAKI REACH?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $282,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE-WABANAKI REACH 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 31 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