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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by FRIENDS OF ACADIA.

Totals

Total revenue
$7,595,646
Total expenses
$5,290,491
Contributions and grants received
$6,246,056
Grants paid
$1,602,050
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$1,519,852
Other revenue
-$170,262
Total assets, end of year
$74,652,165
Total liabilities, end of year
$93,920
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$74,558,245
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,744,257
Management and general expenses
$846,729
Fundraising expenses
$699,505
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,744,257

Program services were 70.8% 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

    $689,646

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $717,382

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,839,028

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $66,187

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,117,139 · excluded $1,117,139

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $9,855,364

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

    securities $9,452,651

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $402,713

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $402,713 · excluded $402,713

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $187,200

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

    $717,382

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $357,462

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$170,262 · excluded -$170,262

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,602,050 · program services $1,602,050

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $348,097 · program services $184,491 · management and general $69,620 · fundraising $93,986

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,534,126 · program services $813,087 · management and general $306,825 · fundraising $414,214

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $54,278 · program services $28,767 · management and general $10,856 · fundraising $14,655

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $317,201 · program services $168,116 · management and general $63,440 · fundraising $85,645

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $144,474 · program services $76,571 · management and general $28,895 · fundraising $39,008

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,079 · program services $973 · management and general $106

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $29,914 · management and general $29,914

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $381,580 · management and general $381,580

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $297,869 · program services $173,096 · management and general $110,242 · fundraising $14,531

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $13,708 · program services $8,186 · fundraising $5,522

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $316,183 · program services $97,790 · management and general $181,029 · fundraising $37,364

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $114,645 · management and general $114,645

  • 17 · Travel

    total $17,809 · program services $9,999 · management and general $4,401 · fundraising $3,409

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $357,482 · program services $29,752 · fundraising $327,730

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,056 · management and general $8,912 · fundraising $144

  • 24a · Other expenses: Other Program Expenses

    total $78,077 · program services $57,640 · management and general $10,110 · fundraising $10,327

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

    total $30,325 · program services $13,649 · management and general $11,550 · fundraising $5,126

  • 24c · Other expenses: Overhead Distribution

    total $0 · program services $480,090 · management and general -$485,396 · fundraising $5,306

  • 24d · Other expenses: Reclass-Auction Expense

    total -$357,462 · fundraising -$357,462

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $72,980 · end of year $81,536

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,583,115 · end of year $4,604,304

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $234,772 · end of year $189,772

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $21,916 · end of year $93,562

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $78,216,412 · end of year $69,412,458

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $162,410 · end of year $270,533

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $60,884 · end of year $93,920

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $10,444,743 · end of year $10,874,802

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $71,785,978 · end of year $63,683,443

Mission and programs · 2022

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. Some of the highlights from the 2022 season included major rehabilitation work on the Beech Mountain West Ridge Trail, and the Great Head Trail.

    Expenses $554,263 · Grants $384,484

  • The Carriage Road maintenance grants help to make possible the salaries of several Acadia National Park workers who perform regular maintenance of the park's 44 miles of historic carriage roads. In 2022, some of the highlights included the installation of two new culverts near Eagle Lake, the grading of 4 miles of the Day Mountain loop, and rehabilitation of 2.5 miles of drainage ditches.

    Expenses $213,908 · Grants $150,000

  • Additionally, Friends of Acadia contributes to a variety of community outreach events such as Take Pride in Acadia, National Trails Day, and Earth Day Roadside Clean-up. In partnership with Acadia National Park, Friends implements and contributes to other programs including the Summit Stewards, the Wild Garden of Acadia, the Acadia Winter Trails Association, invasive plant eradication, Acadia Quest, the peregrine falcon and hawk watch program, Acadia Teacher Fellows Program, water quality monitoring and a volunteer program that typically contributes over 5,000 hours of time per year to help maintain Acadia's trails and carriage roads.

    Expenses $2,976,086 · Grants $1,067,566

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jack Kelly

    Chair

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

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William C Eacho

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Edson

    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
  • Sam Coplon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Green

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Fassak

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elsie Flemings

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • C Boyden Gray

    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
  • Rob Leary

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Story Litchfield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Mayewski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cora Olgyay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan Pew

    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
  • Christiaan van Heerden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Zoellick

    Past Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Stiles

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $146,885
    From this org
    $120,284
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,601
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jason Irwin

    Vice President/CFO

    Total calculated
    $147,307
    From this org
    $127,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,307
    Hours/week
    40
  • David MacDonald

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $53,905
    From this org
    $40,449
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,456
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lisa Horsch Clark

    Vice President of Development

    Total calculated
    $176,484
    From this org
    $127,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,619
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,865
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,044
    Nontaxable benefits
    $41,575
    Filer's total
    $176,484

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

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
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
9 June 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202321659349300422

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