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OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST

OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,450 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($26,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$43k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$2.4M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Oceanside Conservation Trust does

Mission

The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Land stewardship and maintenance. Each year the organization walks its various properties and maintains the land as needed. Such maintenance incluides trash removal, invasive species removal & general trail maintenance.

    $500 spentof which $500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $500.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($333k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 25 ($82k) Expenses 119 ($41k) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 216 ($720k) Expenses 140 ($48k) Net assets 139 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 11 ($35k) Expenses 108 ($37k) Net assets 142 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 13 ($43k) Expenses 70 ($24k) Net assets 144 ($2.4M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (13)Expenses (70)Net assets (144)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $2.3M (+34%).

$1.7M
$1.7M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.4M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$299k
’20
$41k
’21
$671k
’22
−$2k
’23
$19k
’24
216
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1313121111
Joined·+3+0+3+2
No longer listed·3142
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $550.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST’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

OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST.

40%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 95% · 2022 66% · 2023 91% — 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.

Where its funders are

57% of OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Maine funders.

ME
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST: 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 OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST?
OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,450 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($26,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $65,450 in grants to OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OCEANSIDE CONSERVATION TRUST 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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