Momentum Conservation is thrilled to announce the 42 recipients of the 2025 Land Trust Grant Fund Program. In the applications for this program, Community Grant Reviewers and Momentum Staff read about amazing work across the state, including land trusts committing to accessibility on land and in programming, centering equity in organizational culture and partnerships, prioritizing community outreach, investing in staff development, finding creative solutions to ecological challenges, and so much more. At Momentum Conservation, we see so much leadership, growth, and strength in the land trust community, and we will continue to support these organizations as a funder and partner in this work.
This annual grant program provides general operating support for Maine land trusts and will open for applications again in spring 2026.
Program Goals:
- Strengthen the land trust community’s governance, leadership, strategic planning, financial stability, programming, and organizational development.
- Help land trusts integrate equity and inclusion in their organizational policies, practices, and programming.
- Position land trusts to broaden their membership, including by engaging BIPOC, low-income people, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities.
- Support land trusts in developing additional social capital and infrastructure by facilitating connections to share lessons, opportunities, and growth.
- Ensure that conservation is rooted in community and that conserved land is accessible to the broadest range of communities for meaningful experience.
Below is a list of the 2025 Land Trust Grant Fund Program grantees:
7 Lakes Alliance
Androscoggin Land Trust
Arundel Conservation Trust
Blue Hill Heritage Trust
Bomazeen Land Trust
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
Coastal Mountains Land Trust
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Downeast Coastal Conservancy
Falmouth Land Trust
Francis Small Heritage Trust, Inc.
Freeport Conservation Trust
Great Works Regional Land Trust
Greater Lovell Land Trust
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
High Peaks Alliance
Inland Woods + Trails
Island Heritage Trust
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
Kennebec Land Trust
Kittery Land Trust Inc.
Land in Common
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc.
Mahoosuc Land Trust, Inc.
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Maine Farmland Trust
Midcoast Conservancy
Mousam Way Land Trust
Orono Land Trust
Portland Trails
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
Royal River Conservation Trust
Scarborough Land Trust
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
Somerset Woods Trustees
South Portland Land Trust
The Kennebunk Land Trust with the Neighborhood Housing Trust
The Trust for Public Land
Three Rivers Land Trust
Western Foothills Land Trust
York Land Trust