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MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC

MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,532 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$257k
Net assets
$5.6M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Master Brewers Association of the Americas Inc does

Mission

The purpose of mbaa is to be a professional, scientific organization dedicated to advance, support, and encourage scientific research into brewing malt beverages and related industries and to make that research available to the public through conventions, discussion groups, journals, publications and seminars.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Member services provides support to nearly 4,000 individuals involved within the brewing industry.

    $310,558 spentof which $18,486 as grants$508,826 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  2. The annual meeting is attended by both members and the public. It provides a program to educate those who work with beer in a variety of capacities.

    $304,450 spent$329,482 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  3. Education courses promote the training of competent production and technical staff in the brewing industry.

    $227,967 spent$221,945 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  4. Other programs include publications related to the brewing industry.

    $88,307 spent$67,219 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $931,282.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.0M) Expenses 97 ($1.8M) Net assets 98 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 109 ($2.2M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 122 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 71 ($1.5M) Expenses 66 ($1.3M) Net assets 141 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 90 ($1.8M) Expenses 81 ($1.5M) Net assets 157 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 93 ($1.9M) Expenses 92 ($1.7M) Net assets 134 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 97 ($2.0M) Expenses 104 ($2.0M) Net assets 148 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 89 ($1.8M) Expenses 110 ($2.1M) Net assets 148 ($4.9M)2025 Revenue 69 ($1.4M) Expenses 71 ($1.3M) Net assets 167 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (69)Expenses (71)Net assets (167)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.5M to $5.7M (−11%).

$4.3M
$4.5M
$5.2M
$5.8M
$6.5M
$5.7M
$6.0M
$5.9M
$6.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$163k
’17
$199k
’18
$320k
’19
$201k
’20
$325k
’21
$165k
’22
$38k
’23
−$255k
’24
$80k
’25
2.3
months of
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.

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Listed323235323339353228
Joined·+3+15+9+2+14+8+4+9
No longer listed·312121812713
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $17k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS 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

MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% 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

64% 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 MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC.

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

64% of MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $92k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC?
MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,532 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $256,532 in grants to MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MASTER BREWERS ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS INC find more funders?
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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 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