Trefethen Evergreen Improvement

Analysis

Trefethen Evergreen Improvement is a registered charity in United States, based in Peaks Island, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2025. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Trefethen Evergreen Improvement reported income of $312k and spending of $265k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $243k to $312k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 129%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Trefethen Evergreen Improvement sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 57th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Central Ohio Youth Ice Hockey Officials Association Inc ($311k), Springfield Youth Hockey Association ($312k) and Selinsgrove Area Recreation Inc ($311k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 41% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $80k. At year end it held assets of $671k against liabilities of $4,049, net assets of $666k. It reported 17 employees.