Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,177 to it, the largest being TIDES ADVOCACY ($11,177). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $54M
What Maryland State Education Association does
Mission
The Maryland State Education Association empowers members to make a positive difference in their professional lives in order to elevate the quality of public education for all students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strong locals - msea shall promote strong locals by ensuring that members are informed, engaged and empowered and that a local possesses and is able to execute plans to organize, bargain for, grow and represent its membership successfully.
Leading the professions - msea shall promote an environment of leading the professions by proactively driving and improving public policy, professional practice and political discussions at the local, state and federal levels.
Culture of organizing - msea shall promote a culture of organizing by creating deliberate processes and outreach to continually engage members, develop strong relationships with and among members and effectively reflect and mobilize membership.
Core operational services - msea will promote an environment to serve and support membership in an efficient and effective manner by hiring, training, educating and retaining qualified staff and leadership, implementing policy and procedures, safeguarding assets, accurately collect and process member contributions, complying with regulatory requirements in a timely manner and encouraging technological advancements.
The 4 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. 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 $50M to $56M (+11%).
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.
9% of MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sean Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Education Association of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND STATE 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
MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
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
MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MARYLAND STATE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Msea Fund for Children and Public Education · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARYLAND STATE 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 MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,177 to it, the largest being TIDES ADVOCACY ($11,177). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,177 in grants to MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- TIDES ADVOCACY is the largest funder on record, with $11,177 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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