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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by FRIENDS OF ACADIA.

Totals

Total revenue
$12,663,310
Total expenses
$13,607,465
Contributions and grants received
$6,641,526
Grants paid
$7,296,850
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$6,330,191
Other revenue
-$308,407
Total assets, end of year
$100,299,843
Total liabilities, end of year
$456,799
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$99,843,044
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$11,270,956
Management and general expenses
$1,071,177
Fundraising expenses
$1,265,332
Program service expenses (Part III)
$11,270,956

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $1,049,069

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $867,685

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,724,772

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $584,264

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,379,199 · unrelated business -$3 · excluded $1,379,202

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $40,262

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $40,262

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $40,262 · excluded $40,262

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $18,325,926

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $13,374,934

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $4,950,992

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $4,950,992 · excluded $4,950,992

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $133,560

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $867,685

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $482,229

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$348,669 · excluded -$348,669

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $7,296,850 · program services $7,296,850

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $542,114 · program services $319,847 · management and general $81,317 · fundraising $140,950

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,239,146 · program services $1,321,096 · management and general $335,872 · fundraising $582,178

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $83,198 · program services $49,087 · management and general $12,480 · fundraising $21,631

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $445,419 · program services $262,797 · management and general $66,813 · fundraising $115,809

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $201,272 · program services $118,750 · management and general $30,191 · fundraising $52,331

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $13,630 · program services $7,476 · management and general $6,154

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $48,405 · management and general $48,405

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $430,819 · management and general $430,819

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $385,937 · program services $127,215 · management and general $190,521 · fundraising $68,201

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $31,996 · program services $27,601 · fundraising $4,395

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $239,192 · program services $111,871 · management and general $65,011 · fundraising $62,310

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $271,011 · program services $81,279 · management and general $185,428 · fundraising $4,304

  • 17 · Travel

    total $90,661 · program services $40,233 · management and general $18,395 · fundraising $32,033

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $282,113 · program services $42,375 · management and general $1,607 · fundraising $238,131

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $193,720 · program services $184,958 · management and general $8,762

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $28,663 · program services $18,555 · management and general $9,106 · fundraising $1,002

  • 24a · Other expenses: Loss on write-down of p

    total $1,034,944 · program services $1,034,944

  • 24b · Other expenses: Other Expenses

    total $230,604 · program services $93,576 · management and general $71,394 · fundraising $65,634

  • 24c · Other expenses: Overhead Distribution

    total $0 · program services $132,446 · management and general -$491,098 · fundraising $358,652

  • 24d · Other expenses: Reclass-Auction Expense

    total -$482,229 · fundraising -$482,229

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $39,960 · end of year $94,365

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,168,786 · end of year $4,329,598

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,916,765 · end of year $1,934,662

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $126,203 · end of year $197,730

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $6,795,742

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $256,345

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $6,984,188 · end of year $6,539,397

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $83,771,161 · end of year $86,592,783

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $239,028

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $282,612 · end of year $372,280

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $949,432 · end of year $217,771

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $2,550 · end of year $239,028

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $18,524,701 · end of year $19,474,269

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $77,812,992 · end of year $80,368,775

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and promotes stewardship of the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality, and distinctive cultural resources of Acadia National Park and surrounding communities for the inspiration and enjoyment of current and future generations.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Preservation and protection of Acadia National Park.

  • Friends of Acadia makes grants from its Acadia Trails Forever project fund to the ANP trails program to maintain the park's 153 miles of trails. In 2025, the Trail crew undertook significant repairs to the Hunters Beach Trail and the North and South Bubble Trails. They also completed the rehabilitation of the Bubbles Divide Trail and worked with volunteers to install 500 feet of raised cedar boardwalk along the Hemlock Path, restoring natural water flow through the Great Meadow. They built two stone staircases and improved drainage along the Valley Peak Trail and completed additional sections of the Great Meadow Loop.

    Expenses $565,009 · Grants $488,240

  • The Carriage Road maintenance grants help to make possible the salaries of several Acadia National Park workers and interns who perform regular maintenance of the park's 44 miles of historic carriage roads. In 2025, the carriage road crew repaired washouts, graded 5 miles of carriage roads, and spread 150 tons of surface materials. They cleaned four miles of road ditches and, flushed culverts. They surveyed 138 of the documented vistas on the carriage roads and worked to clear 43 of those, including supervising volunteers who worked on 12 vistas.

    Expenses $114,172 · Grants $101,212

  • Additionally, Friends of Acadia contributes to a variety of community outreach events such as the Earth Day Roadside Clean-up and Soil to the Summits hikes. In partnership with Acadia National Park, Friends implements and contributes to other programs including the Summit Stewards, the Wild Garden of Acadia, the Recreation Technicians, the Acadia Winter Trails Association, the Island Explorer, invasive plant eradication, the peregrine falcon and hawk watch program, Acadia Teacher Fellows Program, water quality monitoring, rehabilitation of historic buildings, and a volunteer program that typically contributes over 5,000 hours of time per year to help maintain Acadia's trails and carriage roads. FOA continues to help ANP address the ongoing seasonal employee housing shortage. In 2025, construction continued at Harden Farm, an ANP project that FOA contributed an additional $4.5 million to help complete, adding to the $7M contributed during 2024. Phase One, 28 new one bedroom and studio apartments, was completed, and Phase Two, another 28 one bedroom and studio apartments, was initiated. Solar panels were installed at FOA's seasonal housing complex in Trenton, Maine with a potential energy savings of nearly $600,000 over 25 years. FOA also secured funding to install solar panels at Harden Farm with a potential energy savings of $300,000 during its lifetime. 2025 welcomed inaugural residents at the newly completed Dane Farm complex in Seal Harbor, Maine, housing eight seasonal employees for ANP.

    Expenses $10,591,775 · Grants $6,707,398

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • William C Eacho

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Edson

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Leary

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Story Litchfield

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Amstutz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Banzhaf-Stone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justin Bennett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charlotte Chilton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sam Coplon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kareem A Dieng

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lesley Draper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Todd Graham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Green

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christiaan van Heerden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret Jeffery

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Katona

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jack Kelley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lydia Kimball

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cora Olgyay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Pierce

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward L Samek

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Curtis Simard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Liz Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elsie Flemings

    Past Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hannah Sistare Clark

    Past Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Stiles

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $329,449
    From this org
    $259,687
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,762
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,187
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    $30,000
    Deferred
    $13,706
    Nontaxable benefits
    $56,056
    Filer's total
    $329,449
  • Megan Loomer

    Vice President of Finance & CFO

    Total calculated
    $212,665
    From this org
    $189,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,280
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,885
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    $10,000
    Deferred
    $9,469
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,811
    Filer's total
    $212,665
  • Lisa Horsch Clark

    Vice President of Development

    Total calculated
    $225,826
    From this org
    $160,998
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $64,828
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,498
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,772
    Nontaxable benefits
    $56,056
    Filer's total
    $225,826
  • Stephanie Clement

    Vice President of Conservation

    Total calculated
    $156,280
    From this org
    $135,685
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,595
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,185
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,784
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,811
    Filer's total
    $156,280
  • Perrin Doniger

    VP of Communications & Marketing

    Total calculated
    $145,311
    From this org
    $131,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,811
    Hours/week
    40
  • Devin Lueddeke

    Development Officer for Major Gifts

    Total calculated
    $143,366
    From this org
    $123,386
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,980
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sarah Curts

    Accounting Manager

    Total calculated
    $130,975
    From this org
    $111,585
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,390
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 7
Employees received a modest year end merit payment based on organizational performance.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
6 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202641899349300434

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