Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC
MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $536k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Maine Lobstermen's Association Inc does
Mission
The maine lobstermen's association (mla) advocates for a sustainable lobster resource and the fishermen and communities that depend on it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocacy to sustain the lobster resource and the communities that depend on it. The mla participated in multiple policy arenas on behalf of our members to ensure a sustainable lobster resource and fishery. Mla continued its advocacy in the 2nd session of the 131st maine legislature to secure funding to rebuild working waterfronts devastated by winter storms. The mla advocated to ensure regulatory proposals do not negatively impact our members, focusing on ensuring whale conservation measures and lobster conservation measures balance resiliency of the regulated species and the fishery. Mla continued advocacy against offshore wind to protect the ecosystem and fisheries.
$572,411 spent$535,826 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $572,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+20%).
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.
92% of MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC.
“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
74% of MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Maine 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.
Against its field
MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 69% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S 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 MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC?
- MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC (Maine) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,500 in grants to MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC?
- MAINE AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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