KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P99

Classification

2000

Street

42 KIEVE RD

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

• Camp Kieve for boys is a wilderness tripping camp with a robust traditional summer camp program. 606 campers were in the 2024 camp program across four sessions (two 26-day and two 10-day). Founded in 1926 on Damariscotta Lake in Nobleboro, Maine, Kieve is a Celtic verb meaning to strive in emulation of - to work hard to acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes from others so as to improve yourself; the program is built on this foundation, providing a staff full of tremendous role models worthy of emulation. Campers ranging from 8-17 years old learn and grow through fun and explorative traditional activities on campus and increasingly challenging wilderness trips, ranging from two to 22 days, that foster independence and build resilience. (Camp Kieve continued) Led by largely college-aged counselors, campers build skills and lasting connections that empower them to go back and positively affect their communities by spreading the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.

  Expenses $3,674,940 · Grants $503,550 · Revenue $4,658,952

• Wavus Camp for girls is a wilderness tripping camp with a robust traditional summer camp program. 561 campers were in the 2024 camp program across our sessions (two 26-day and two 10-day). Founded in 1922, the Wavus Foundation merged with Kieve Affective Education to form Kieve Wavus Education in 2005, with Wavus Camp reopening as Kieve's sister camp and program in 2006. Campers ranging from 8-17 years old learn and grow through fun and explorative traditional activities on campus and increasingly challenging wilderness trips, ranging from two to 22 days, that foster independence and build resilience. (Wavus Camp continued) Led by largely college-aged counselors, campers build skills and lasting connections that empower them to go back and positively affect their communities by spreading the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.

  Expenses $3,374,040 · Grants $494,295 · Revenue $4,240,028

• The Leadership School (TLS) is a teacher education program that cultivates career educators who learn by providing experiential outdoor education programs to thousands of Maine students each year. TLS is a Maine Department of Education (DOE) non-traditional, limited-purpose private school (grades 1-12), guided by our environmental stewardship and experiential approach to social-emotional learning (EASEL) curricula. At TLS, our teaching fellows spend their fall and spring terms leading overnight Outdoor School programs for Maine students and teachers on our Kieve campus, and their winter terms in residency at local, Midcoast Maine public schools. (Leadership School & KWE Events continued) Through a partnership with the University of Southern Maine, a TLS Fellow can earn their professional DOE teaching certification with all coursework and student teaching credit hours paid for by KWE. In 2024, TLS served approximately 6,353 students across 77 programs on campus and at our local schools.KWE Events incorporates the wide range of programs led across our campuses and in our community, above and beyond TLS, Kieve, and Wavus. Each year, KWE hosts dozens of events - from wellness retreats for humanitarian and mission-based groups ranging from veterans to families fighting cancer, to board meetings, team-building programs, and more. Our campuses feature cozy lakeside cottages, as well as the Kennedy Learning Center, a 16-bedroom event center at our Kieve campus, where alumni and people aligned with our mission can come together to learn, grow, and benefit from this transformational place. This work also incorporates the Lincoln County Food Initiative, where, during the 20 weeks of winter in Maine, members of our operations team combine their efforts to serve our neighbors in need. This program evolved from a community-wide initiative at the peak of the COVID pandemic. It leverages local partnerships and KWE's industrial kitchens and talented full-time cooks to procure local ingredients and produce more than 6,000 delicious, pre-made meals to our five local pantries, helping sustain our neighbors facing food insecurity during the hardest time of the year.

  Expenses $3,946,453 · Grants $678,360 · Revenue $1,872,494

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.

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. 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

  $13,620,719

  Expenses

  $13,219,226

  Contributions

  $2,042,361

  Grants paid

  $1,676,205

• 2023

  Revenue

  $12,512,727

  Expenses

  $14,214,283

  Contributions

  $2,032,089

  Grants paid

  $1,237,499

• 2022

  Revenue

  $12,311,490

  Expenses

  $10,525,440

  Contributions

  $1,449,690

  Grants paid

  $900,533

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

  $13,776,250

  Expenses

  $8,602,478

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,138,199

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,274,131

  Expenses

  $4,999,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $43,628,109

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,926,451

  Expenses

  $9,357,756

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,937,492

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,200,971

  Expenses

  $9,175,801

  Assets (EOY)

  $37,191,271

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,920,925

  Expenses

  $8,617,972

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,716,062

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,376,778

  Expenses

  $8,055,866

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,521,363

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,350,770

  Expenses

  $7,914,009

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,040,159

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,201,532

  Expenses

  $7,437,407

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,669,193

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,259,663

  Expenses

  $7,362,566

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,981,199

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $6,789,639

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,910,187

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

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $191,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $143,825

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $140,200

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $54,950

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $50,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $32,600

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $28,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,000

  2022 · EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & OTHER STUDENT SVC

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $24,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $23,750

  2024 · Educational Services

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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