Maine · Nonprofit
Marine Mammals of Maine
Marine Mammals of Maine (Maine) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,761 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($147,081). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $857k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $964k
- Net assets
- $583k
What Marine Mammals of Maine does
Mission
To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization (mmome) offers a single program of animal rescue and welfare. Mmome responds to live and deceased marine mammals (seals, dolphins, whales) and sea turtles from kittery to rockland maine, which covers 2500 miles of coastline. We operate a 24/7 marine mammal and sea turtle reporting hot line for the public to report a stranded seal, dolphin, whale or sea turtle. Mmome operates a triage and rehabilitation center for seals in need of additional care and treatments. Mmome reaches approximately 24,000 people who are followers on facebook, approximately 10,000 peoples who are folowers on instagram, and we reach approximately 3,173 individuals from our mailing list.
$432,801 spent$44,355 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,801.
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 $249k to $583k (+134%).
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: 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Marine Mammals of Maine’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. 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.
Board chair
David Shultz
Treas/Bd Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $67k → $245k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Marine Mammals of Maine’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Marine Mammals of Maine has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 Marine Mammals of Maine.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2019 61% · 2020 64% · 2021 68% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of Marine Mammals of Maine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Marine Mammals of Maine draws 85% 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. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Marine Mammals of Maine runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Marine Mammals of Maine receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $936k on record.
- Department of Commerce$936k
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 Marine Mammals of Maine
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Marine Mammals of Maine: 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 Marine Mammals of Maine?
- Marine Mammals of Maine (Maine) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,761 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($147,081). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Marine Mammals of Maine have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $963,761 in grants to Marine Mammals of Maine, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Marine Mammals of Maine?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $147,081 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Marine Mammals of Maine 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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