Maine · Nonprofit
MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,910,280 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($3,910,280). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $541k
What Maine Rural Water Association does
Mission
Education, training, and on-site technical support to rural water and wastewater systems in maine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mrwa provides on-site technical assistance to water and wastewater utilities.
Mrwa provides professional training on such topics as operator certification, federal and state rules and regulations, and management.
Mrwa provides contract operations for districts and small systems. These contracts include financial services (bookkeeping, customer services), licensed operations (district operations run under mrwa's licensed operators), and other contract operations for testing done monthly, quarterly or annually.
The 3 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 2020 to 2021, from $754k to $1.0M (+37%).
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: 2017 34% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 22% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kirsten Hebert
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $539k → $593k.
From the IRS filings of MAINE RURAL WATER 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 RURAL WATER 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 RURAL WATER 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 2 related entities
- Watershed Maine LLC · disregarded
- New England Environmental Resource Federation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAINE RURAL WATER 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 RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,910,280 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($3,910,280). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,910,280 in grants to MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAINE RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,910,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAINE RURAL WATER 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.
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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 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