Maine · Nonprofit
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,162 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Sea Meadow Marine Foundation does
Mission
The Sea Meadow Marine Foundation preserves Maine's working waterfront through a collaborative, sustainable approach to regenerate our coast, improve marine and public health, and protect our maritime heritage. We strive to integrate environmental science and educational opportunities into our support of the marine economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Sea Meadow Marine Foundation preserves Maine's working waterfront through a collaborative, sustainable approach to regenerate our coast, improve marine and public health, and protect our maritime heritage. Maine's coastal lands are under increasing pressure from real estate developers. Our primary goal is to preserve and maintain affordable access to the working waterfront for individuals and families who make their living from the sea. Our main program is leasing space/access to these groups.
$156,870 spent$110,896 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,870.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.5M to $2.9M (+89%).
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: 2024 56% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of Sea Meadow Marine Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $66k → $88k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Sea Meadow Marine Foundation’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
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
68% 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 Sea Meadow Marine Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 76% · 2023 40% — 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
94% of Sea Meadow Marine Foundation's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Sea Meadow Marine Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $790k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$790k
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 Sea Meadow Marine 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Sea Meadow Marine 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 Sea Meadow Marine Foundation?
- Sea Meadow Marine Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,162 to it, the largest being Maine Technology Institute ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sea Meadow Marine Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $438,162 in grants to Sea Meadow Marine Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sea Meadow Marine Foundation?
- Maine Technology Institute is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sea Meadow Marine 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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