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MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES

EIN 27-0069386 STONINGTON, ME

Revenue 2024
$1,984,270
Expenses 2024
$1,754,769

Program services were 64.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U21
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 27

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 · 2024

Mission

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Activities or mission (Part I)

1) Deliver practical tools and support for today's fishermen to adapt and succeed in a changing fishery.2) Partner with schools and community based groups to provide 9-12, university-level, and professional education to prepare community regulators and scientists for effective collaborative roles. 3) Lead an initiative to establish the Eastern Gulf of Maine as the first U.S. Ecosystem-based pilot where fisheries are co-managed by fishermen, community-based organizations, scientists and governments. 4) Contribute to ongoing learning and science-based community activities to support sustainable fisheries locally, nationally and globally. 5) Inform the public about a sustainable fishing future and engage broad support for the mission within and beyond Eastern Maine fishing communities. 6) Strengthen the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries as a vital and maturing organization.

  • Education programs include the Eastern Maine Skippers Program which is the major educational program of the Organization. The Organization serves as fiscal and organizational home for the collaborative program that provides aspiring commercial fishermen in eastern Maine high schools and in their early careers with the core knowledge and skills needed to be successful in the 21st century, on the water or in other careers. It prepares students to be effective participants in fisheries co-management roles: as fishermen, scientists, or regulators. (Continues on schedule O)Education also includes the Organization's Fisheries Education Center at its waterfront headquarters, with touch tank, interactive wall, and a virtual reality experience that provides fisheries information for all ages. Additional educational outreach to the public includes a summer internship program, a monthly Lunch and Learn webinar series, a weekly newspaper column, and hosting college field trips.

    Expenses $245,275 · Grants $69,070 · Revenue $11,940

  • Convening programs include all of the Organization's outreach to fishermen, its River Herring (Alewife) restoration, activities, support for community shellfish co-management, and collaboration on watershed restoration initiatives with the Downeast Fisheries Partnership.

    Expenses $157,812 · Grants $20,420

  • Science programs include the Organization's ongoing work with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Maine Dept. of Marine Resources in community outreach, asset mapping and data management to develop the research framework to support a co-managed, ecosystem-based fisheries management pilot in eastern Maine. it includes all of the Organization's collaborative research including Sentinel Survey, lobster research, investigation of larval scallop distribution in support of scallop aquaculture, and coastal ocean observation and monitoring in collaboration with the Passamaquoddy.

    Expenses $728,112 · Grants $169,928

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Marsden Brewer

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Thomas

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michelle Carter

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nancy Knowlton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dwight Carver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Jewett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nathaniel Lane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Markos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah McCloskey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Derek McCombs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John McMillan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,284
    From this org
    $13,284
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Morse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joan Sorensen

    Development CMTE Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Tarr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,250
    From this org
    $2,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Train

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexa Dayton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $158,200
    From this org
    $135,984
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,216
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,984
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,379
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,837
    Filer's total
    $158,200

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,984,270
    Expenses
    $1,754,769
    Contributions
    $1,937,279
    Grants paid
    $259,418
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $561,142
    Expenses
    $624,400
    Contributions
    $559,564
    Grants paid
    $40,125
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,314,422
    Expenses
    $1,309,411
    Contributions
    $1,295,038
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,209,278
    Expenses
    $1,354,813
    Contributions
    $1,196,663
    Grants paid
    $53,549

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,157,511
    Expenses
    $1,146,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,822,874

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $780,053
    Expenses
    $1,184,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,860,667

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,238,277
    Expenses
    $1,464,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,418,899

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,005,708
    Expenses
    $1,542,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,458,305

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,091,045
    Expenses
    $1,664,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,092,022

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,495,399
    Expenses
    $1,609,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,630,943

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,351,682
    Expenses
    $1,418,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,503,284

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

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 PC.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.