Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
American Coatings Association Inc
American Coatings Association Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,179 to it, the largest being Graffiti Resource Council ($10,179). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $23M
What American Coatings Association Inc does
Mission
The Association shall advance the interests of the coatings industry and serve as its chief advocate and spokesperson before the government and public; domestically and globally. See Schedule O for continuation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Government Affairs and Advocacy: ACA's Paint Councils are a network of grassroots organizations representing the association in its efforts to promote the interests of the coatings industry at the state level. ACA's Paint Councils provide a forum for companies doing business in those states to interact with each other and with their elected officials. Administration and coordination of the Paint Council Network is overseen by the association's government affairs committee. Experience, to date, has shown that an organized, informed membership can make a significant difference in the outcome of public policy debates concerning coatings industry issues. Paint Council membership and participation is available to ACA corporate members only, since it is membership dues that support the work of the Paint Councils. Actions taken by each Paint Council are determined by its membership at regularly scheduled meetings throughout the year. Each Paint Council has professional staff for lobbying and association management.
Events and Communications: ACA events focus on the latest technological innovations in the coatings field and allied industries. They offer detailed analysis on specific areas of coatings technology and are geared to a global audience. ACA also offers a variety of publications that highlight and address the issues in the coatings industry.
Government, Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs: ACA's accomplishments include the following: provided technical assistance to federal and state agencies on air quality requirements for coatings and coatings facilities as well as guidance to the industry to facilitate compliance; worked with US EPA on several TSCA rulemakings to ensure more reasonable chemicals management requirements; defeated legislation in New York and Maryland that would have banned the use of certain chemicals in architectural paint; eliminated language targeting paint and coatings in microplastics legislation in California; assisted in the development of the program plan expanding paint categories to certain household hazardous waste paint products in Vermont and California; awarded numerous safety awards to member facilities meeting the OSHA safety standards; provided assistance to several state and federal agencies on rulemakings impacting manufacture, labeling, transport and distribution of coatings products.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $34M to $41M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of American Coatings Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of American Coatings Association Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- PaintCare Inc · exempt
- ACA PaintPAC · exempt
- American Coatings Media LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Coatings Association Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds American Coatings Association Inc?
- American Coatings Association Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,179 to it, the largest being Graffiti Resource Council ($10,179). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Coatings Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,179 in grants to American Coatings Association Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of American Coatings Association Inc?
- Graffiti Resource Council is the largest funder on record, with $10,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Coatings Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing