Maine · Nonprofit
THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST
THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,885,132 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($304,850). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Kennebec Land Trust does
Mission
The Kennebec Land Trust (klt) works cooperatively with landowners and communities to conserve the forests, lakes, streams, wetlands, fields, and wildlife that help define central maine. Klt protects and stewards land permanently, offers access to conserved properties, provides opportunities for people to learn about and enjoy the natural world, and works with partners to support sustainable forestry and farming. Klt has provided over thirty-seven years of conservation work in the kennebec river and lakes region. Thanks to the generous contributions and support of more than 1,100 household members and business partners, dedicated volunteers, board members, and staff, we have experienced over three decades of significant growth and developed a reputation as a conservation leader in our 413,000-acre service region. We have received statewide and regional recognition and awards for our dedication to conserving land for its many community benefits, including public use and recreation. Klt h
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stewardship klt's stewardship staff oversee the management of the trust's fee lands, monitor conservation easements, and work with 59 community volunteers. Dedicated volunteers commit more than 1418 hours annually to support klt's stewardship program. The mount pisgah conservation area, klt's most popular property was a stewardship focus for this year. Klt staff, interns, and maine conservation corps crew moved 50+ yards of gravel for trail repairs with tracked haulers. The gravel, along with geotextile fabric and crushed drain stone, was placed along a section of the mount pisgah tower trail to replace ~600 feet of worn bog bridging. In addition to adding gravel along the tower trail, a mcc crew began installing stepping-stones along the lower portion of the blueberry trail to replace another section of old bog-bridging. This project will be continued in 2025. A maine recreational trails program grant funded these projects, with matching funds provided by klt's membership. On many other properties, klt volunteers continued to stock sign-in boxes with brochures, clear trails of blowdowns, help with control of invasive species, replace worn signage, clear bush, cut new trail…
$266,345 spent$11,522 earned by the program63% of program spendingEducation public programs klt hosted public programs with many participants, including our annual lyceum lecture series on maine amphibians and reptiles, high school and public sustainable forestry education programs, nature walks, a maine entomological field day, star gazing events, full moon hikes, property dedications, and more. Publications "klt news: biannual newsletters featuring new conservation properties and an annual calendar of events "2024 intern research projects: conservation land trust and community land trust partnerships: workforce housing with community, conservation and ecological benefits https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52f117dae4b0c08037396a20/t/66c3be59b 018667711287fef/1724104284844/workforce+housing+research+final.pdf alternative lawn covers & their benefits https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52f117dae4b0c08037396a20/t/66c3c0a3b f15c17e74f7f7c5/1724104872433/2024elena+8.13++final.pdf "2023 intern research projects: howard hill universally accessible trail initiative https://www.tklt.org/s/klt-research-paper-2023-final.pdf "take a hike: The Kennebec Land Trust hiking guide, second edition, published in december 2020, with thirty-two hikes. "save…
$119,148 spent$2,545 earned by the program28% of program spending1. Land conservation since 1988, klt has worked cooperatively with landowners and communities to conserve our region's natural resources. Klt holds conservation easements on, accepts gifts of, and purchases significant lands to further the mission of the organization. Klt's community conservation lands protect wildlife habitat, water quality, working forestland and farmland, and scenic beauty, and provide many opportunities for year-round outdoor activities for maine residents and visitors. Klt has accomplished many noteworthy projects over the past several years, including the following: strategic conservation planning in 2022 we completed an update of the trust's strategic conservation plan. Our plan incorporates 13 ecological and community values, including proximity to trail access and resiliency in the face of climate change, two additions to the previous strategic conservation plan. The plan helps us identify high priority conservation areas for our 413,000-acre service area. New land projects in 2024 - 2025 klt protected 261 additional acres of conservation land in kennebec county. The 39-acre jimmy stream conservation easement in litchfield, conserved in july 2024,…
$37,422 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $422,915.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.1M to $10M (+13%).
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 11% · 2018 0% · 2021 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $84k → $95k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 KENNEBEC LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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 KENNEBEC LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
46% 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 KENNEBEC LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 64% · 2022 44% · 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
53% of THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $697k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22k on record.
- Department of the Interior$22k
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 KENNEBEC LAND TRUST
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Baldwin Hill Conservation Burial Gr · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST?
- THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST (Maine) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,885,132 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($304,850). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,885,132 in grants to THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $304,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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