FRIENDS OF ACADIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 45

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

• 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.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $12,663,310

  Expenses

  $13,607,465

  Contributions

  $6,641,526

  Grants paid

  $7,296,850

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,311,559

  Expenses

  $15,249,572

  Contributions

  $9,304,245

  Grants paid

  $10,204,089

• 2023

  Revenue

  $15,284,443

  Expenses

  $6,889,715

  Contributions

  $14,068,976

  Grants paid

  $2,865,154

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,595,646

  Expenses

  $5,290,491

  Contributions

  $6,246,056

  Grants paid

  $1,602,050

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

• 2025 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,023,767

  Expenses

  $4,768,249

  Assets (EOY)

  $82,291,605

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,546,098

  Expenses

  $4,010,499

  Assets (EOY)

  $70,297,006

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,397,207

  Expenses

  $4,374,132

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,943,791

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,029,886

  Expenses

  $3,986,301

  Assets (EOY)

  $54,693,785

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,232,104

  Expenses

  $3,913,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $58,102,918

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,995,364

  Expenses

  $4,264,453

  Assets (EOY)

  $49,595,258

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $23,218,469

  Expenses

  $4,281,296

  Assets (EOY)

  $44,333,175

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,169,805

  Expenses

  $3,151,371

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,893,791

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

• Acadia National Park

  $9,056,616

  2024 · Provide assistance to ensure the protection of the Acadia National Park region.

• Acadia National Park

  $6,124,404

  2025 · Provide assistance to ensure the protection of the Acadia National Park region.

• Acadia National Park

  $1,109,757

  2022 · Provide assistance to ensure the protection of the Acadia National Park region.

• Maine Department of Transportation

  $1,000,000

  2023 · Provide support for Acadia Gateway Center.

• Acadia National Park

  $994,699

  2023 · Provide assistance to ensure the protection of the Acadia National Park region.

• Schoodic Institute at Acadia

  $486,638

  2025 · Education and Conservation

• Schoodic Institute at Acadia

  $364,721

  2024 · Education and Conservation

• Downeast Transportation

  $297,000

  2024 · Provide support for the Island Explorer propane buses serving Acadia National Park.

• Downeast Transportation

  $297,000

  2025 · Provide support for the Island Explorer propane buses serving Acadia National Park.

• Downeast Transportation

  $297,000

  2023 · Provide support for the Island Explorer propane buses serving Acadia National Park.

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $2,001,000

  2023 · Protect

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2023 · FOR THE SEASONAL WORKFORCE HOUSING INITIATIVE

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT

• NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2022 · GENERAL

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $453,290

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $318,915

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $203,642

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $59,875

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $57,450

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $53,400

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

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

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