Minnesota · Nonprofit
MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS
MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,873 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($1,343,873). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Marine Retailers Association of the Americas does
Mission
Trade association for marine retailers. The purpose of the organization is to render educational, developmental, legislative, regulatory and promotional services for the benefit of its members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We have a government relations function to keep members informed of current legislation and regulations affecting the marine industry and to lobby in an effort to further the interest of our members. We distribute weekly newsletters to members and nonmembers to keepthem abreast of industry trends and news, association news and updates, legislative insights, our benefits, and other valuable information related to current industry needs. We provide trade shows and a convention that provides educational programs relating to the industry.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $1.0M to $1.7M (+60%).
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 11%. 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 8 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.
Board chair
Jeff Strong
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $473k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS’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
MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 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
MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Marine Retailers Association of America Educational Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS: 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 MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS?
- MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,873 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION ($1,343,873). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,413,873 in grants to MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS?
- NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,343,873 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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