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AHIMSA FOUNDATION

EIN 04-2749858 SOUTH WINDHAM, ME

Revenue 2025
$1,492,695
Expenses 2025
$1,254,233

Program services were 77.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D120
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 10

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE CARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES.

  • THE AHIMSA FOUNDATION (THE "FOUNDATION") PROVIDES SUPPORT TO CHARITIES THAT SUPPORT ANIMALS AND ENVIRONMENTALLY RELATED CAUSES. THIS FOUNDATION IS SUPPORTED BY VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS.

    Expenses $971,500 · Grants $971,500

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MERIS BICKFORD

    TREASURER/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $37,650
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,150
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • KATE ITURRALDE

    CHAIRMAN/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL AIRIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATRINA BERGMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $201,285
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $198,243
    Other
    $2,542
    Hours/week
    1 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $500 + $198,243 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $2,542 related
    Filer's total
    $500 + $200,785 related

  • HOLLY STAVER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 30 related

  • JEN BONNETT

    EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR

    Total calculated
    $61,742
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $61,742
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    13

  • JOHN GRAHAM

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,492,695
    Expenses
    $1,254,233
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $971,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,040,393
    Expenses
    $1,240,735
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $874,276
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $903,513
    Expenses
    $1,210,046
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $964,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $195,836
    Expenses
    $1,282,410
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $1,039,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,760
    Expenses
    $1,220,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,664,257

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,064,227
    Expenses
    $1,006,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,779,077

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $936,299
    Expenses
    $1,018,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,095,545

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $503,026
    Expenses
    $1,033,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,922,669

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $436,493
    Expenses
    $963,753
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,485,815

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,650,918
    Expenses
    $991,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,756,139

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.