Maine · Nonprofit
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve (Maine) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,889,878 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($500,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $172M
What Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve does
Mission
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Preserved the unique character of historic gardens that lie south of acadia national park in northeast harbor and seal harbor: the asticou azalea garden, thuya garden and abby aldrich rockefeller garden. Maintained and conserved the lands, roads, trails and structures, including the historic lodge adjacent to thuya gardens. Managed and maintained public access to related properties: a harbor landing and the asticou terraces trail from northeast harbor to thuya garden.
$4,013,220 spentof which $4,000 as grants$2,541,008 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,013,220.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $130M to $148M (+14%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Patrick Macrae
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $106k → $824k.
7 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve raised.
From the IRS filings of Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
27% 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 Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 32% · 2020 39% · 2021 30% · 2022 40% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
59% of Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $674k 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.
Organizations like Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve
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
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Smallidge L3c · disregarded
- The Spruces L3c · disregarded
- Ashskypoint LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: 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 Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve?
- Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve (Maine) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,889,878 to it, the largest being EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND ($500,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $2,889,878 in grants to Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve?
- EDWARD C JOHNSON FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve 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 55 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing