Maine · Nonprofit
PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS
PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,250 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Protect Ancient Forests does
Mission
We promote the arts and sciences in order to raise awareness about the critical importance of the planet's remaining mature and old-growth forests.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization maintained a website to increase public awareness and understanding about the importance of mature and old-growth forests, providing timely updates that included the latest ecological science and pressing threats facing public forests. In 2024, the organization's website received over 2,500 visits with over 4,500 page views.
$12,250 spent49% of program spendingThe organization produced a detailed brief about the management history of public forests, while also documenting the most up-to-date science related to wildfire mitigation. This document was shared publicly for educational purposes and to promote public safety.
$7,000 spent28% of program spendingThe organization engaged in community art projects. Over the course of several creative sessions, the organization joined forces with a local filmmaker to create an inspiring short documentary film that featured music, poetry, and renowned speakers who performed and spoke about the importance of mature and old-growth forest ecosystems. The film has been shared publicly in order to further raise awareness and understanding about these critical ecosystems.
$5,692 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,942.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $41k to $7k (−84%).
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.
100% of PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS’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
PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS.
“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
83% of PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS's revenue fell 82% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS: 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 PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS?
- PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,250 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $30,250 in grants to PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTECT ANCIENT FORESTS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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