Maine · Nonprofit
Teens to Trails
Teens to Trails (Maine) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,953 to it, the largest being QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $393k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $589k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Teens to Trails does
Mission
To connect Maine students to life-changing outdoor experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outdoor Program/Outdoor Club: Teens to Trails works with 70+ of Maine's middle and high schools to provide fun outdoor experiences for students. We provide grants, gear, pre-planned trips and outdoor leadership training. At a time when phones and social media are pulling adolescents inward, Teens to Trails works with schools to move kids outward, with programming that creates strong social connections, builds confidence and creative thinking skills, and provides the positive impact of spending unstructured time outside.
$176,088 spentof which $13,200 as grants82% of program spendingLife Happens Outside Challenge: Maine middle school students are challenged to spend as many minutes outside as they can for a week in May. All outdoor activity counts! Winning schools earn cash to invest in more outdoor programs, as well as copious PR to draw attention to the benefits of time spent outside. Results: Students feel that they have more agency and more positive connections with peers. Teachers see fewer disciplinary challenges.
$37,395 spent17% of program spendingSara's Scholarship: This is an investment in a teen's connection to the outdoors. This award is what started Teens to Trails and continues 18 years later to provide an immersive summer leadership experience for 2-3 teens, offered in partnership with some of Maine's best expedition camps.
$1,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $214,483.
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 2024 to 2025, from $219k to $283k (+30%).
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: 2021 28% · 2022 2% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Teens to Trails’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Alicia Heyburn
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $50k → $127k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Teens to Trails’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
Teens to Trails has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 Teens to Trails.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 78% · 2019 59% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of Teens to Trails's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of Teens to Trails's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Teens to Trails runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Teens to Trails
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Teens to Trails: 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 Teens to Trails?
- Teens to Trails (Maine) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,953 to it, the largest being QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Teens to Trails have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $588,953 in grants to Teens to Trails, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Teens to Trails?
- QUIMBY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Teens to Trails 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing