Maine · Nonprofit
PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION
PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,717 to it, the largest being NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION ($570,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $954k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation does
Mission
See Schedule O. To support the development of youth education programs and educational learning centers across Maine including support to 4-H Youth Development education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support to the Magic Lantern Innovation Center for youth originally opened in 2021. Focus is on youth entrepreneur programs in science, engineering, technology, the visual and performing arts, leadership and nutrition. The Magic Lantern Innovation Center offers quality hands-on learning, youth internships, and large group specialty programs in the STEM and arts areas. Our goal is to provide support for enrichment programs that inspire youth aspirations, engage children and teens in lifelong learning and in applied real life education.
$624,594 spentof which $100,000 as grants51% of program spendingRestricted program support based on donor directed gifts to programs, primarily directed toward our learning centers. Our restricted gifts support facility capital improvements, scholarships for school-based programs, clubs, home school groups and summer camp scholarships. Programs focus on environmental education, ecology, outdoor skills and science based learning.
$430,032 spent35% of program spendingScholarships for higher education, early college and technical/trade school programs. The Maine 4-H Foundation supports youth going to colleges, universities and trade schools all over the country. Many scholarships are supported through endowed funds designated by our incredibly dedicated 4-H donors. Scholarships range from 1000 to 2500.
$16,700 spent1% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 158,091, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 To Bryant Pond Learning Center for land purchase and scholarship support
$158,091 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,229,417.
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 $5.8M to $11M (+85%).
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 76% · 2018 86% · 2021 11% · 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $18k → $187k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 23% · 2021 40% · 2022 56% · 2023 64% — 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
22% of PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $589k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$589k
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 PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bryant Pond Learning Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION: 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 PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION?
- PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION (Maine) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,717 to it, the largest being NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION ($570,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $953,717 in grants to PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION?
- NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION 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 17 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