Maine · Nonprofit
SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE
SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,500 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $911k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $231k
What Seguinland Institute does
Mission
We create programs that foster deep inquiry into the good life and the great work as a way of guiding our students toward personal and planetary thriving. We combine academic rigor and immersive experiences in nature with visual pedagogy, mind-body practices, and a back-to-the-land work ethic. We provide opportunities for learners to take powerful intellectual risks, to expand their capacity for creative thought and action, and to connect meaningfully to their environment. We aim to equip our students with the skills necessary to nourish with wisdom, justice, and joy the communities to which they belong.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Good Life Gap Semester (Fall 2024): A semester study away program for college age students. We hosted 23 students for an 11 week program. Students received 10 college credits for completing three college courses during our program via our agreement with University of Maine Farmington. The courses offered were: The Good Life (4 credits in Philosophy or Religious Studies) and The Good Life for All (4 Credits in English) and The Creative Life (2 credits). In addition to the academic aspect of the program, students participated in immersive experiences in nature, mindfulness practices and learned to use visuals to capture ideas and facilitate dialog.
$319,910 spent$299,460 earned by the program47% of program spendingThe Good Life Gap Semester (Spring 2025):A semester-study-away program for college-age students. We hosted approximately students for a 10-week program (February through April) on our 60-acre campus in the coastal woodlands of Maine. Students earned 10 college credits (via our agreement with the University of Maine at Farmington) for completing three college courses: The Good Life (4 credits in Philosophy/Religious Studies), The Good Life for All (4 credits in English), and The Creative Life (2 credits). In addition to the academic component, students lived in intentional community, immersed themselves in nature, practiced mindfulness, participated in food-life and creative-arts projects, and used visuals and dialog to deepen connection and understanding.
$217,896 spent$241,940 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe Good Life May Term: A month long study away program for college age students. We hosted 18 students. Students received 4 college credits for completing two college courses during our program via our agreement with University of Maine Farmington. The courses offered were: The Good Life (4 credits in Philosophy or Religious Studies) and The Food Life Course (2 Credits in English) and The Creative Life (2 credits). In addition to the academic aspect of the program, students participated in immersive experiences in nature, mindfulness practices and learned to use visuals to capture ideas and facilitate dialog.
$121,697 spent$65,100 earned by the program18% of program spendingJanuary Art Residency:A 15-day program for alumni of Seguinland Institute for 6 alumni artists. The program combined: (1) roughly 20 hours per week of self-directed studio work guided by Seguinland faculty, culminating in a final project presentation; and (2) roughly 20 hours per week working in one of several mentored tracks at our community partner, The Chocolate Church. In addition, participants lived communally (shared cottages and studio space), took part in shared meals and weekly potlucks, and strengthened creative practice, community-building skills and place-based art engagement.
$17,885 spent$3,400 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $677,388.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $28k to $256k (+819%).
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.
31% of SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Philip Francis
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 81% 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 SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE’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
SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE.
“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
81% of SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k 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
SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
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 SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE: 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 SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE?
- SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,500 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $167,500 in grants to SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEGUINLAND INSTITUTE 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 2020–2025), 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