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ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS

ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being EQUIPMENT DEALERS FOUNDATION ($55,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$30M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$55k
Net assets
$30M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Association of Equipment Manufacturers does

Mission

To be the leading organization in north america enabling equipment manufacturers to be successful in the global market place.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Member services including educational resources, public promotion, statistics processing and other trade association services on a global basis for companies that manufacture equipment and provide products and services used worldwide in the construction, agriculture, mining, forestry, materials-handling and utility industry.

    $26,082,762 spent$15,032,510 earned by the program
    64% of program spending

  2. Conduct expositions for members around the globe to promote the continued expansion and success of the equipment manufacturing industry.

    $14,954,674 spent$11,899,614 earned by the program
    36% of program spending

  3. Conduct association initiatives to improve the safety of the industry and foster development and growth.

    $1,725,656 earned by the program

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,037,436.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56M) Expenses 100 ($50M) Net assets 100 ($30M)2018 Revenue 52 ($29M) Expenses 69 ($34M) Net assets 79 ($24M)2019 Revenue 66 ($37M) Expenses 79 ($39M) Net assets 78 ($23M)2020 Revenue 113 ($63M) Expenses 134 ($67M) Net assets 59 ($18M)2021 Revenue 65 ($36M) Expenses 77 ($38M) Net assets 50 ($15M)2022 Revenue 64 ($36M) Expenses 73 ($36M) Net assets 51 ($15M)2023 Revenue 157 ($87M) Expenses 139 ($69M) Net assets 123 ($37M)2024 Revenue 54 ($30M) Expenses 83 ($41M) Net assets 101 ($30M)
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Revenue (54)Expenses (83)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $108M to $70M (−35%).

$47M
$73M
$108M
$70M
$66M
$101M
$80M
$102M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 696 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.6M
’17
−$5.3M
’18
−$2.5M
’19
−$4.2M
’20
−$2.5M
’21
−$435k
’22
$18M
’23
−$11M
’24
11
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed2827282828282827
Joined·+6+6+2+4+4+10+5
No longer listed·75244106
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25k.

Funder
'18
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS’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

ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.

MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
Wisconsin out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.

Federal$300k
grants $300kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$300k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS

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 Wisconsin

Experimental Aircraft Association Inc81%Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc80%The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin Inc79%Agricultural & Applied Economics Association79%International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Inc79%Eaa Vintage Aircraft Association Inc79%The American Academy of Allergy Asthma79%North American Lake Management Society Inc78%

Nationally

Society of Manufacturing Engineers84%National Automatic Merchandising Association84%The American Society of Mechanical Engineers84%Association for Manufacturing Excellence84%Asm International84%Fabricators & Manufacturers Assoc Intl84%National Association of Manufacturers of the United States of America83%International Association of Exhibitions & Events83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Aem Services LLC · disregarded
  • Aem Chile - Spa · corp_trust
  • Aem Exhibition Services Beijing Co Ltd · corp_trust
  • Hargrove & Associates Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS: 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 ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS?
ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being EQUIPMENT DEALERS FOUNDATION ($55,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $55,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS?
EQUIPMENT DEALERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing