Maine · Nonprofit
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,504 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($160,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $350k
- Net assets
- $325k
What The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc does
Mission
To promote the protection and restoration of wetlands and related aquatic resources, to apply sound science to wetland management, and to provide training, education, and capacity building for our members and the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research - 50%ASWM conducted research into many areas of environmental policy through six primary projects: 1) Enhancing State and Tribal Roles in Wetland Protection through Regulatory Program Capacity Building, 2) Strengthening Opportunities for State Assumption of the Section 404 Dredge and Fill Program, 3) Urban Wetlands: Supporting and Sustaining a Healthy and Safe Urban Environment, 4) Wetland Training for State and Tribal Wetland Program Professionals, 5) Beaver and Wetland Restoration, and 6) Raising the Bar on Wetland Mapping Through Educational Webinars, Outreach and Advancement of Functional Assessment Methodologies.
$444,356 spent$82,112 earned by the program50% of program spendingWebinars & Publications - 25%ASWM planned, coordinated, hosted, recorded, edited, and posted 36 national webinars with a total of 9,517 participants (average of 264 participants per webinar). ASWM also published its monthly Wetland News Digest, weekly Insider's Edition, and quarterly newsletter, Wetland News.
$222,177 spent$41,056 earned by the program25% of program spendingWorkshops and Conferences - 25%Various workshops, meetings, and conferences.
$222,178 spent$41,056 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $888,711.
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. 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 $375k to $704k (+88%).
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 77% · 2018 79% · 2019 71% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 78% · 2023 81% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Marla Stelk
Executive Director
Board chair
Mark Biddle
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 The Association of State Wetland Managers 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
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504 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
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record — $5.1M federal, $175 state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$4.5M
- Department of the Interior$344k
- Department of Defense$206k
- Department of Transportation$10k
- PROF DEV DUES/MEMBERSHIP$175
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 The Association of State Wetland Managers 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc?
- The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,504 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($160,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $349,504 in grants to The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Association of State Wetland Managers 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 6 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