Key facts

Reported value

USD 442.2 million

As of

June 30, 2025

Portfolio

Foundation long-term endowment investments

Location

Orono, ME

Data through FY2025

Balance reference

Endowment size and reporting scope

For University of Maine Foundation, the survey reports USD 442.226 million for FY2025 and USD 371.067 million for FY2024. These totals retain the respondent's published scope. A pooled investment fund can also hold resources outside permanent endowments, while financial statements can include interests administered by outside trustees. Those accounting boundaries help explain why one organization may publish more than one long-term-asset figure. Closing market value alone does not identify how much support a beneficiary can spend. Survey scope and definitions

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2025

The FY2025 survey value for University of Maine Foundation is USD 442.226 million, compared with USD 371.067 million for FY2024. The USD 71.159 million movement is 19.18% of the earlier balance. It includes changes in investments as well as additions and distributions. NACUBO explicitly distinguishes this change in market value from an investment rate of return. FY2025 respondent values and definitions

The available history begins in FY2016 at USD 179.887 million and ends in FY2025 at USD 442.226 million. The change across those observations is USD 262.339 million. The smallest reported balance in the displayed series is USD 179.887 million in FY2016; the largest is USD 442.226 million in FY2025. The change in assets includes gifts and distributions as well as investment results. NACUBO historical workbook

Spending policy and payout

The FY2025 NCSE $250M to $500M group reports an average effective spending rate of 5.2%. That is a survey-group statistic and is not assigned as University of Maine Foundation's policy. An institution's own spending rule can use several prior valuation dates, a prior-year dollar draw or additional adjustments. Its approved appropriation and the cash ultimately spent by a department can differ in timing. NCSE spending-rate table

For University of Maine Foundation, the survey value records a closing balance in FY2025. It does not identify the valuation dates used to calculate a distribution. A policy based on earlier values can produce a different dollar draw from a percentage of the current balance. The peer statistic is retained as a group comparison, with no institution-specific payout inferred. Spending measures

Governance and investment office

The University of Maine Foundation manages private support for the university. Its annual report separates foundation financial reporting from the University of Maine System's accounts. Endowed funds can support Maine while being held by different legal owners. Foundation assets are not automatically the whole of the university's endowment resources. Investment governance

Federal excise tax on investment income

Public Law 119-21 changed Section 4968 for tax years beginning after December 31, 2025. Applicable private institutions must have at least 3,000 tuition-paying students in the preceding tax year, with more than half located in the United States, and student-adjusted endowment of at least $500,000. The rates are 1.4% from $500,000 through $750,000 per student, 4% above $750,000 through $2 million, and 8% above $2 million. Enacted law, Section 70415

Section 4968 excludes state colleges and universities described in Section 511(a)(2)(B). Supporting foundations retain their own legal and filing identities, with related-organization rules read alongside the public-university exclusion. A foundation's public endowment value does not, by itself, assign it a private-college tax tier.

Section 4968 taxes net investment income. Its asset and student definitions govern applicability and the rate.

FY2025 size-band comparison

The FY2025 survey value of USD 442.226 million places this respondent in the $250M to $500M band. The published band contains 102 respondents and USD 37.1 billion of aggregate assets. Its average five-year annualized net return is 10.0%, and its ten-year average is 7.6%. The size band uses the FY2025 NACUBO balance. NCSE size groups NCSE average net returns

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2025

The peer mix describes average reported exposures within one size band. It does not reveal individual securities or the availability of cash at a particular institution. Respondents can also use different policy benchmarks. NCSE returns are net of external management fees and expenses for periods ending June 30, 2025; those periods and fee labels govern any numerical return comparison on this page. NCSE allocation definitions

Public records and reporting dates

The ProPublica nonprofit API identifies the legal filer as University Of Maine Foundation, EIN 016011501. Its available filing for the year ended December 31, 2023 reports total filer assets of USD 390.581 million, revenue of USD 64.725 million, expenses of USD 32.864 million. These are filer-wide amounts, which can include buildings, operating resources and other assets outside the endowment. The filing period is retained separately from the current investment disclosures. ProPublica structured filing data

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