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MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION

MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750,828 to it, the largest being NATIONAL OILHEAT RESEARCH ALLIANCE ($750,828). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$751k
Net assets
$1.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Michigan Petroleum Association does

Mission

To promote the general welfare of independent petroleum distributors, marketers, jobbers and convenience store owners and operators, and to advance principles and policies consistent with good business practices; to support constructive legislation beneficial to the petroleum industry and convenience store businesses, and oppose that which is detrimental to that industry and those businesses to the extent not contrary to the public interest; to help keep the members informed of changes in laws and regulations affecting their businesses, and assist them in compliance with the requirements of and in their relationship with relevant governmental departments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Member services including education and legislative services benefiting approximately 200 members.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 85 ($1.1M) Expenses 95 ($1.1M) Net assets 94 ($991k)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.1M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 64 ($816k) Expenses 78 ($889k) Net assets 105 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 93 ($1.2M) Expenses 87 ($989k) Net assets 126 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 78 ($992k) Expenses 91 ($1.0M) Net assets 110 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 126 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 87 ($1.1M) Expenses 101 ($1.1M) Net assets 127 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 98 ($1.2M) Expenses 113 ($1.3M) Net assets 132 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (113)Net assets (132)

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 $1.6M to $1.7M (+12%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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: 2021 6% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$135k
’17
−$313
’18
$44k
’19
−$74k
’20
$187k
’21
−$47k
’22
$100k
’23
−$44k
’24
−$34k
’25
2.5
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.

Board chair

Tyler Brown

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed514747474743485144
Joined·+1+5+6+3+1+7+6+5
No longer listed·556352312
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $190k → $56k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MICHIGAN PETROLEUM 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

MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

CT

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

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’21
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’23
Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MICHIGAN PETROLEUM 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 Michigan

Michigan Pharmacists Association79%Michigan Pork Producers Association78%Michigan Association of Health Plans78%Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association Dba Check in Michigan78%Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association77%Michigan Primary Care Association77%Health Care Association of Michigan77%McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation77%

Nationally

Iowa Propane Gas Association80%Michigan Pharmacists Association79%Missouri Coalition for Primary Health Care79%Pennsylvania Petroleum Association Inc78%Michigan Pork Producers Association78%Michigan Association of Health Plans78%Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association Dba Check in Michigan78%Prairie Power Inc78%
05Profile & governance

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

Governance

44
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Michigan Petroleum Education Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Michigan Petroleum Jobbers Political Action Committee · exempt
  • Michigan Petroleum Service Corporation · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIGAN PETROLEUM 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 MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION?
MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750,828 to it, the largest being NATIONAL OILHEAT RESEARCH ALLIANCE ($750,828). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750,828 in grants to MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL OILHEAT RESEARCH ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $750,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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