Maine · Nonprofit
SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,778 to it, the largest being DAVIS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Saco Valley Land Trust Inc does
Mission
The organization holds conservation easements andland in fee for the purpose ofthe conservation of natural habitats, agricultural land and historical sights in the lower saco river valley.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The trust holds 1050 acres in saco, biddeford, and buxton, maine,which are monitored yearly to prevent encroachment or degradation from inappropriate uses. Forest lands are managed for health and income. Easements may need to be defended to prevent inappropriate uses. Additional land and easements are also purchased for conservation.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $2.1M (+5%).
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 4% · 2018 18% · 2019 69% · 2021 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Richard Rhames
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC’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
SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC
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.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: 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 SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC?
- SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,778 to it, the largest being DAVIS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,778 in grants to SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC?
- DAVIS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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