A fiscally conservative organization

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The Eagle Hill Institute was founded in 1982 as a nonprofit and charitable corporation of the State of Maine and is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) charitable tax-exempt corporation (Federal ID 01-0379899).

For decades, the institute has been 98% publicly supported each year without exception.

Tax deductions ... Donors may take tax deductions for their donations under Internal Revenue Service guidelines.

The institute does not seek donations and bequests in order to support its current or new natural history science mission interests, since each one is independently self-supporting.

This means that our in-person seminars and online seminars are individually self supporting without subsidizing each other, without relying on grant support.
The institute's journals are also not supported by grants, but are instead collectively self-supporting by way of author page charges and/or subscriptions and royalties, depending upon the journals.

Six out of 9 of the institute's journals were launched by the institute in discussion with and at the request of other organizations: the Southeastern Naturalist, Urban Naturalist, Prairie Naturalist, Journal of the North Atlantic, Eastern Paleontologist, and, as of 2023, the Journal of North American Bat Research.

The Northeast Natural History Conference was taken over by the institute in 2011 at the request of the New York State Museum in 2011, which had been subsidizing the conference. The conference has since then be generously self-supporting, while still being considered an inexpensive conference.

A fiscally conservative organization

And thus a good partner