2021 Membership & Community Support
You make this vital work possible.
It’s been 32 years of protecting the lands and waters you love! In 1989, KELT was founded by a handful of committed community members looking to conserve the wild, scenic beauty of the Kennebec Estuary. Today, our members…individuals, families, businesses, and foundations…are the reason we continue to be successful. We are deeply grateful for your support!
2021 milestones
Over $130,000 in membership donations
Over 650 membership donations made by 411 members
68 new members
Over $400,000 in grant support
27 generous Evergreen Circle donors who give on a recurring basis
KELT thanks the following individuals, foundations, and businesses who made generous gifts to support our conservation programs in 2021.
We made every effort to ensure the accuracy of these lists; please notify us of any errors or omissions.
Rising Tide Society
This group of generous donors is vital in ensuring KELT's financial sustainability for robust and enriching programs into the future. Members who donate $500+ are part of the Rising Tide Society.
*Evergreen Circle donors ♥Given for 5+ consecutive years ✿In memory: donor who recently passed away
$2500+: High Tide Donors
Anonymous (4)
Susan Bateson & Stephen Fuller ♥
Franklin & Susan Burroughs ♥
Dennis & Carole Dunbar ♥
Joseph & Pamela Hanson
Julia Kahrl ♥
Michelle & James Rines ♥
$1000 - 2499: Spring Tide Donors
Stephen & Marcia August ♥
Lori Benson & Ken Borgendale ♥
Costello Family
Mike & Peggy Curran ♥
Paul Dumdey ♥
Miles Epstein & Dr. Susan George
Mike & Betsy Fear ♥
Robert & Katharine Gravino ♥
Rebecca Halbrook & Sam Jones ♥
Betsy Ham & Warren Whitney ♥
Dr. Stemple & Catherine Johnson
Kathleen Kasparek
Carrie & Jack Kinne ♥*
Dayle & Raymond Kolak ♥
Debra Lipscomb ✿ & Denham S Ward MD, PhD *
Vicki & Paul Skydell ♥
Shannon Slattery & Jerome Grafe
Pat Smith & Richard Tucker ♥
Karen & Neil Stanton
Dixie Stedman & J.R. Phillips ♥
John Swenson & Nancy Nellis ♥
Michael Tetreault & Neera Harmon
Eric & Laurie Van Loon ♥
Laurel Walsh & Justin Schuetz ♥
David & Sandra Weiss ♥
Jack Witham & Jody Jones ♥
Loren & JB Wright ♥
Nancy Zugehoer ♥
$500 - 999: Neap Tide Donors
Bill & Sally Haggett
Lawrence Hobel & Diana Staring ♥
Avery Hunt
Rich & Debbie Lorenson ♥
Timothy & Linda Lotz
Robert & Connie McChesney ♥
Sue McLeod ♥
Nancy & Bill Milam ♥
Lisa Muller Jones
Pia & Will Neilson ♥
Jackson & Susan Parker
David & Susan Avery ♥*
Timothy Blair & Kate Dempsey
Paul & Janet Cappers
Jeffrey & Deborah Christie ♥
Allan & Carol Clarke ♥
Carolyn & W. Robert Connor ♥
Gladys & Stephen DeWick ♥
Susan Fenn & Bill Nickerson ♥
Bob & Ann Fox
Gregory Gale & Maria Rader
Maria & Chris Grill ♥
Jean ✿ & Ralph Pope
Peter & Rhoda Segerstrom
David B. Soule Jr. & Patricia J. O'Reilly ♥
Amy & Fred Wesson ♥
Sandy Whiteley & Russel Maylone ✿
Stephen Williams & Lisa Reece ♥
Reeve Wood & Hannah Burroughs ♥*
Al & Julia Wurglitz
Peter & Julia Jenks Zorach
KELT Membership
Our members make it happen! Thanks to these generous individuals and families, KELT can continue our work protecting the land and water throughout the Kennebec Estuary today and for future generations.
*Evergreen Circle donors ♥Given for 5+ consecutive years ✿In memory: donor who recently passed away
Anonymous (4)
Susan S.R. Alexander
David & Libby Anderson
Karl Anderson
Ruth and Jonathan Appleyard ♥
Rosalie Arienti
Scott & Janet Armington
Ellen Asherman
Karen Balnis
Nancy D. Barber ♥
Richard Barker
Thomas & Judith Barrington ♥
Pamela Barry
Martha Baum
John & Lynne Baxter ♥
David & Shawn Bebko
Jeffrey & Rosalind Benton ♥
Kris Berglund & Joanna Torow ♥
Terri Bilodeau & Edward Schmuhl ♥
Darice Birge & Michael Handel ♥
Edie & Gil Birney
Luther Black & Christina Wright
Will & Halcyon Blake
Mary Louise K. Blanchard
Howard & Nancy Bliss ♥
Bill & Lucinda Bliss
Harvey Boatman
Phyllis & Aaron Bock
Steven & Eileen Bonine *
Margaret Helm Bonney
Alan & Kathleen Bouchard
Carla Boussen
David Boyle ♥
Michael Branca *
Lauren Bray *
Kristin Breder ♥
Carol & Robert Briselli
James Brokaw
Carol & Baird Brown
Natalie Bruno
Sam Brush & Courtney Culley
William & Jean Buermeyer
Craig & Anita Burgess ♥
Barry & Mary Lou Burke
Donna Burkhardt
Paul Burns & Kristin Jhamb
Susan Caldwell
Steve Campbell
Suzanne Carr & Jan Loeb ♥
Donald & Patricia Carter
Aldo Cerutti & Sandra Johnson
Henry & Audrey Cheetham ♥
Anna Christie-Carnicella & Robert Carnicella ♥
Tom & Carolyn Church ♥
Jennie & Campbell Clegg
Jeremy & Sally Cluchey *
Nananda Col & Bob Arledge ♥
Keely Colby *
David Collings & Terri Nickel ♥
Melissa Comiskey
Garrett Corbin *
Ned & Vickie Crankshaw ♥
Kendall & Andrew Crosby
Brenda Cummings & Tim Richter ♥*
Constance Cummings ♥
Mimi Curran
Donna Curry
Margaret Thompson Curtis
Andy & Kate Cutko
Tom Dahlke
C.R. & Marla Davis ♥
Peter Day
Jan Day
Jan & Jeffrey DeBlieu
Sally ✿ & Jim DeMartini ♥
Sara & Michael De Pesa ♥
John G. Desjardins
George & Lois Dole ♥
Alicia Dole
Dave & June Dorion
Norma Dreyfus & Stan Lane ♥
Martin Drost ♥
Maggie Dumais
John & Karin Duncan
Charles Durfee & Jennifer Oddleifson ♥*
Elizabeth Durrell ♥
Eugene Dutton
Dwight & Jacqueline Dwinal ♥
Bob & Gayle Edson
Linda Edwards
John Edwards
Sue & Rick Elsaesser
Reginald & Penny Elwell
Rodney Emerick
Ellen A. Endter *
Arthur & Betty Jo Evans
Josephine Ewing & Don Hudson ♥
Falencia Ezendu
James & Amy Fagan
Cindy & Mike Fahay ♥
Mark Farrow & Peggy Kapisovsky
Alyssa Finn & Lisa Vinikoor *
Jeff Fischer & Ellen Baum
James & Kathryn Flannery ♥
T. Corwin & Cynthia Dunn Fleming ♥
Tim Forrester, Bethany Atkins & Lily Forrester ♥
Karen Freedman & David Rawson ♥
Rick Freeman ♥
Walter & Anne Gamble ♥
Wayne Garceau ♥
Cory Gardiner & Terry Kungel ♥
Allen & Barbara Gaul ♥
Greg Gerritt
Carol Gillespie
Livy & Marty Glaubitz
James & Lee Graham *
Sally Greene
Stephen Hadley & Irena Zadonsky ♥
Tom Hallenbeck ♥
Malcolm Hamilton
Matthew & Amina Hanna
Gary & Kathleen Hanning ♥
Tim & Eileen Harkins
Anne & Eldon Harris ♥
Elizabeth Hartung-Cole & Peter Cole
Patrick Harty
Susan & Tom Hayward
Roger & Sukey Heard ♥*
Sandy Hempe
Jon & Rosemary Hentz
Emily Herman & Dave Polito
Rodger & Jillian Herrigel
Herb & Lois Hewlett
Alicia & Henry Heyburn
Bill & Kathy Higgins
Sue Hill
Linda Hjortland & David Fluharty ♥
Ted & Linda Hoch ♥
Laurie Holland
Barry & Ginger Holland
Lisa Holley & Jim Arsenault
Karin Hoppenbrouwers
Paul & Jean Horn
Sara Ann Howe ♥
Randy Howell & Peggy Duhamel ♥
Denise & David Hoyle
Thomas H. Hughes ♥
Judith Hughes
Neil & Martha Hulbert ♥
Lucy Hull & Bart Chapin ♥
Jim & Susan Hummer ♥
Andrew Hutchinson
Jack & Sally Ijams
Lisa & Steve Indrick
Charles Ipcar ♥
Nancy Ishihara
Nick & Cynthia Islin
Victoria Hope Jackson ♥
Rob & Mary Carol Jarmusz *
Paul & Carole Johnson ♥
Rob & Kimberly Jones ♥
Jens Jorgensen
Mark Jorgensen
Elnora Joseph-Bijhouwer & Jim Joseph
Steven & Leslie Kalisz
Marnie & Paul Kalkstein ♥
Carolyn Kauffunger ♥*
The Kauffungers ♥
Lynn Kay & Douglas Bates ♥
Myra & Rob Keeble
Janet Kehl & Damian Sokol ♥
Kevin & Karen Kelly ♥
Gail & Cyrus Kendrick
Amy & Robert Kerr
Mitchell Kihn & Barrie Brusila
Angela Kimberk
David King
Steve & Silvia King ♥
Elizabeth King
William King Jr. & Jayne Palmer
Eric Kingman & Joyce Devine
Robert & Ruth Kingsbury
David Kinne
Becky Kolak *
Hannah Kolak ♥*
Anne Krebsbach ♥
Michael Kreindler & Michele Gaillard ♥
Caroline Kurrus
Brock Kwiatkowsky
Harley Laing
Sarah Lambertson
Marty & Robert Landorf
David & Sarah Langdon ♥
Victor Langelo & Jeanette MacNeille
Nicholas Larocca & Rosalind Kalb ♥
Susan Lemp
John Lichter & Kathleen Claerr
Thomas Lincoln
Wayland Linscott & Susan Fuller
Suzanne Lovett ♥
Carol & Henry Lukas
Bill Luth & Nancy Randall
Jessi R. MacLeod ♥
Rachel & James Madsen
Alyson Magian & Raymond Houlihan
Chris & Roz Magnuson
Ann Groves Manson
Lisa Margonelli & Clarke Cooper
John & Anne Marsh
Don & Cindy Marsh
Dorsey Mathews
Richard & Pamela Mayo ♥
Jack McBride
Joanne McCartan
Scot McFarlane & Molly Seaward
Judy McGuire
John McKee ♥
Megan McOsker
Kathryn & Richard Meade
Pamela Meader
Kat Mead-Von Huene & Andreas Von Huene ♥
Antoinette Mercadante ♥
George Mercer
Martha Merson
George & Judy Metcalf
Marc & Julia Meyers
Susan Mikesell
Mark & Mary Milam
Philip Miller & Courtnay Malcolm
Allen Miller ♥
Stephen Milliken
Sheila & Jeffrey Mohler
Stanley & Michelle Moody ♥
Bill & Cathy Morrison
Bill & Gail Moulton ♥
Heather Moulton
Elizabeth H. Muench
Judith & Gerald Mullins
Dustin & Theo Nelson
Joan Newkirk & Kevin Shute ♥*
Deirdre O'Callaghan & Timothy Lukas
Ken & Sharon Oehmig ♥
Connie Ostis ♥
Susan Paluska
Richard Papetti
Cathy & Dave Paris
Deborah Patten
James Peavey & Kathy Smith ♥*
Andrew & Kimberly Perry ♥
Kit Pfeiffer & David Elliott
Joseph & Crystal Pietrowicz ♥
Barbara A. Pike
Sarah Poriss & Paul Spirito ♥
Lon & Ilissa Povich
Harold Prins & Bunny McBride
Megan Pryor *
Nathaniel Pulsifer
Bryan Quigley *
Gwynneth Rayer
Sarah Rebick
Mary Poyner Reed
The Reissmans ♥
Anne Reiter
Carla Rensenbrink ♥
Julie & Thomas Rice ♥
Nancy & Lynn Rider
Alexandra Rink
Karen Robbins
Jane & Kenneth Robbins
William Robitzek & Barbara Raimondi
Rebecca Roche *
John & Nancy Rogers
Norma Rossel
Tom Rumpf & Annee Tara
Barbara & Dick Russell
Karin Sadtler & Jon Biehler ♥*
Carole Sargent ♥
Joan & William Sartoris
Paul & Mona Schlein
Carl Scovel ♥
Donald & Hope Seeley ♥
Elizabeth Seidel
Joseph Seigh & Virginia Coury
Marianne Senechal
Sue & George Sergeant ♥
Joanne Sharpe ♥
Bennett Sherry
Chet & Evelyn Shuman
George Siatos
Gretchen Sibley ♥
Roland Simard ♥*
Christine Simonson
Catherine Skove ♥
Mary Small
Susan Smith & Charles Mainville
Pat & Faith Smith
Mary Beth & Gordon Smith ♥
John-Joseph & Joyce Smith ♥
Peter Smith
Barbara Southard ♥
James & Joyce Spencer ♥
Anne Spencer ♥
Dagny St. John
Jym St. Pierre ♥
Alex Stadler & Dr. Andy Baker
Veronica Staplefield & Jack Kriskey ♥
Sandy & Seena Stein ♥
Sandra Stenquist
Ronald & Leslie Stoodley
Élise Straus-Bowers & Brian Bowers ♥
Michael Strong
Mary & Raymond Swain
Peter Swift
Jeffery Tarbox
Michael & Wendy Taylor
Luanne Teller
Charlotte Thompson & Skylar Vogler ♥*
Lynne Thompson ♥
Margo & Jon Thurston
Karen Tilbor
Richard & Margaret Totten ♥
Robert & Sharon Trabona ♥
Adelaide & Jotham Trafton ♥
David & Bronwen Tudor ♥
Jennifer & Heidi Turino
Susan & Jim Upham
Elly Urquhart & Frederick Hogan ♥
Brook Vail
Jenifer Van Deusen ♥
Shannon & Adam Van Loon
David & Carleen Vantine ♥
Pam & Derek Vanvolkenburgh
Barbara Vickery ♥
Eloise Vitelli & Robert Kalish ♥*
Roland & Donna Wales
Richard Waltz
Douglas, Elizabeth & Charli Ware
Marianne Warner & Glenn Evans ♥
Michael & Rachel Warren
Thomas Watson
Bill & Molly Webster ♥
Steve & Susan Weems ♥
Barbara West
Sue West
Nathaniel & Genie Wheelwright ♥
Robert Whitney
Scott & Sharon Whittier
Jeff Wickham & Carol Kuempel
Joyce Wilson ♥
Erin Witham & Andres Abreu ♥
Travis & Kendra Wolfel ♥*
Daniel & Linda Wood ♥
Tenley Wurglitz
Francis & Gwen Zaborowski ♥
Steve & Cynthia Zelinka
Businesses, Foundations, and Organizations
♥given for 5+ consecutive years
Alfred M. Senter Fund
Bowdoin College
City of Bath
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Davenport Trust Fund ♥
First Federal Savings & Loan ♥
Gabriel Charitable Fund
Harkleroad Fund ♥
Island Institute
Island Surveys
KM Robbins Construction LLC
LL Bean Maine Land Trust Program
Maine Community Foundation
Maine Sea Grant
Maine Women’s Giving Tree
Merrymeeting Bay Trust ♥
Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
Onion Foundation
Portland Historic Preservation Board
Quimby Family Foundation
Reichelderfer-Blair Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation
The Hudson Foundation
The Losam Fund
The Nature Conservancy ♥
Town of Arrowsic ♥
US Fish & Wildlife Service
Westport Island LLC
Whole Kids Foundation