Maine · Nonprofit
Rural Futures Fund
Rural Futures Fund (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE PETER ALFOND FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Opportunity Allianceshared funders
- Appalachian Sustainable Developmentportfolio match
- Farm Aid Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Rural Futures Fund’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rural Futures Fund's grant income comes from Maine funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Opportunity Allianceshared fundersME · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Appalachian Sustainable Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Aid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Farmers Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louisiana Farm Bureau Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Certified Organicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nourish Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Rural Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regenerative Agriculture Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seed Fund Ua 121991portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Rural Futures Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rural Futures Fund: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Rural Futures Fund?
- Rural Futures Fund (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE PETER ALFOND FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rural Futures Fund have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to Rural Futures Fund.
- Who is the largest funder of Rural Futures Fund?
- THE PETER ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rural Futures Fund 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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing