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FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being AAMI FOUNDATION INC ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$2.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Flexible Packaging Association does

Mission

To serve flexible packaging converters and suppliers to the industry by representing their interest to government, providing networking opportunities, promoting the value of their products, educating through industry specific programs, and providing industry data.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Advocacy - promotes the industry to policy makers and consumers to protect against potential barriers to growth and to build relations.

  2. Meetings - the association holds two large membership meetings annually.

  3. Marketing and communications - includes the flexible packaging achievement awards program, flexpack voice(r) magazine, social media, and websites with information on the attributes of flexible packaging.

  4. Business and economics - produced and distributed statistical information relating to flexible packaging such as the state of the industry report.

  5. Regulatory affairs - collects, analyzes, and disseminates information regarding technology and regulatory matters relating to the flexible packaging industry.

  6. Sustainable strategy - conducts research into sustainable issues around flexible packaging.

  7. Market research - conducts research into industry trends relevant to flexible packaging.

  8. Leadership - provides the direction of the association's programs.

The 8 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.4M) Expenses 98 ($3.3M) Net assets 95 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 117 ($3.7M) Expenses 101 ($3.4M) Net assets 118 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 122 ($3.8M) Expenses 133 ($4.4M) Net assets 104 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 124 ($3.9M) Expenses 155 ($5.2M) Net assets 61 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 128 ($4.0M) Expenses 120 ($4.0M) Net assets 48 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 135 ($4.2M) Expenses 127 ($4.2M) Net assets 55 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 152 ($4.8M) Expenses 132 ($4.4M) Net assets 70 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (132)Net assets (70)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $2.3M (−33%).

$3.3M
$3.2M
$3.7M
$3.5M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$3.5M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$193k
’17
$109k
’18
$301k
’19
−$599k
’20
−$1.3M
’21
$16k
’22
−$12k
’23
$357k
’24
2.9
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.

Board chair

William Jackson

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3132323232323135
Joined·+12+8+2+0+6+6+12
No longer listed·11820678
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
Aami Foundation Incunclassified
$10k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION’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

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

Organizations like FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION

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 Maryland

Printing and Graphics Association Midatlantic Inc79%National Asphalt Pavement Association Inc78%Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc78%Midatlantic Fiber Association78%Association of Academic Physiatrists77%Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations76%National Fire Sprinkler Association Inc76%American Academy of Pain Medicine75%

Nationally

Fibre Box Association87%Food Processing Suppliers Association87%Florida Press Association Inc83%American Forest & Paper Association Inc82%Fabricators & Manufacturers Assoc Intl82%Precision Metalforming Association81%Financial Planning Association81%Mid-West Fastener Association81%
05Profile & governance

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

Governance

29
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

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Flexible Packaging Association PAC Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION: 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 FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION?
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being AAMI FOUNDATION INC ($9,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,500 in grants to FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION?
AAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLEXIBLE PACKAGING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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