Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION
MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,798,631 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ($1,593,915). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The President and Trustees of Colby Collegelocalportfolio match
- United Way of Kennebec Valleylocal
- Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $192k → $188k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center). These are real filings, and they are not money MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MAINE AQUACULTURE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
90% of MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The President and Trustees of Colby Collegelocalportfolio matchME · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kennebec ValleylocalME · funds 44 organizations near you
- Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Croplife Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morton-Kelly Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine People's Resource Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- An Environmental Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy Suzi Osher FDN Co Bruzgo & Company LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reny Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$185k
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 MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE AQUACULTURE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION?
- MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,798,631 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ($1,593,915). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,798,631 in grants to MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY is the largest funder on record, with $1,593,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing