FRANCIS SMALL HERITAGE TRUST INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 414

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

• FSHT performed due diligence towards purchase of new properties for public use expected to close in 2026. These parcels will provide a direct connection to existing properties which guarantees connectivity for wildlife and trails. This land will be open to the public for low-impact recreation including hiking and hunting and some will be permanently protected by a project agreement with the Maine Land for Maine's Future Program and/or a permanent conservation easement. FSHT also accepted in 2025 a donated Conservation Easement on 36.5 acres in Standish Maine. No asset value for the easement is carried on the books.

  Expenses $26,289

• Provided stewardship, education, and outreach on approximately 3,194 acres of land in and around Limington, Limerick, Baldwin, Porter, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Waterboro, Standish, and Cornish, Maine. These properties conserve natural resources and provide for public access, enjoyment, and education. Stewardship included land taxes, and trail maintenance. The statewide recognized resource has an estimated 5,000 visitors a year, including school groups. Outreach included distributing 1,000 free hiking maps to the public, all to encourage hiking in the area. Granted $1,100 to the Town of Limington as Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT). The organization also paid local property taxes of $10,501 in Limerick, Baldwin, Parsonsfield, Porter, Waterboro, and Cornish even though the organization could be technically exempted from such taxes.

  Expenses $22,774 · Grants $1,100

• Continued our education outreach to local schools the "Sense of Place" program. Approximately 120 students were served by the program. We also worked on a "Forest Carbon Workshop" area on Sawyer Mountain where the public can measure the carbon content of the forest and can investigate ways to manage a forest for maximum carbon sequestration. Approximately twenty volunteers established the program and the forest plots are open to the public. FSHT also published a newsletter which offered directions and descriptions of our local hiking trails. This newsletter was distributed to approximately 14,000 addresses.

  Expenses $7,843

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $113,385

  Expenses

  $61,859

  Contributions

  $111,232

  Grants paid

  $1,100

• 2024

  Revenue

  $369,536

  Expenses

  $252,394

  Contributions

  $368,640

  Grants paid

  $1,100

• 2023

  Revenue

  $485,188

  Expenses

  $102,969

  Contributions

  $484,531

  Grants paid

  $1,800

• 2022

  Revenue

  $897,505

  Expenses

  $148,926

  Contributions

  $896,981

  Grants paid

  $1,100

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

  $197,006

  Expenses

  $58,434

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,494,765

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $127,025

  Expenses

  $26,365

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,364,110

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $82,118

  Expenses

  $38,431

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,287,495

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $20,000

  2022 · Land Resources Conservation

• SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATION COLLABORATIVE

  $15,000

  2025 · To strengthen land trusts throughout Maine with resources necessary to grow and succeed

• SOUTHERN MAINE CONSERVATION COLLABORATIVE

  $15,000

  2024 · To strengthen land trusts throughout Maine with resources necessary to grow and succeed

• DAVIS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2024 · Porter Hills Initiative: Phase II - Making Connections

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $6,500

  2023 · Land Resources Conservation

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $6,000

  2024 · Land Resources Conservation

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