Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,789,621 to it, the largest being NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ($6,789,621). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Maine Education Association does
Mission
We advocate for our members by influencing government policies, building community support for public education, expanding educational employees' rights, and promoting improvements in working conditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affiliate services: to provide technical and professional services to members through local units across the state. Services include recruiting, coordination of organizational activities, and assisting in negotiation activities.
Communications: to publish maine educator and newsletter, membership materials, and external news media communications.
Legal services: to assist members with employment issues through our legal services program, maintain in-house legal services, and consult with staff and affiliates on legal issues and employer/employee relations.
Organizing & data: to empower our members to impact their working lives through organizing principals and the collection of data.
Government relations: to advocate for our members and public education at the maine legislature and congress for school funding, education laws that impact our students and educators, and licensure requirements that meet the needs of the profession.
Training & early educator engagement: to provide professional development for all educators at every stage of their careers.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 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 2019 to 2020, from $4.4M to $5.4M (+24%).
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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Rachelle Bristol
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $931k → $777k.
From the IRS filings of MAINE EDUCATION 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
MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like MAINE EDUCATION 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Clyde Russell Scholarship Fund · exempt
- Maine Education Association Benefits Trust · exempt
- Maine Education Association Fund in Support of Public Education · exempt
- Citizens Who Support Maine's Public Schools · exempt
- Citizens Who Support Maine's Public Schools - PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE EDUCATION 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 MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,789,621 to it, the largest being NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ($6,789,621). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,789,621 in grants to MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $6,789,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE EDUCATION 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing