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RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION

RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $104,750 to it, the largest being Maine Workers Compensation Policyholder Trust ($104,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$770k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$105k
Grants received
$555k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($322k) Expenses 100 ($313k) Net assets 100 ($538k)2018 Revenue 121 ($391k) Expenses 115 ($361k) Net assets 106 ($568k)2019 Revenue 110 ($353k) Expenses 118 ($369k) Net assets 103 ($552k)2020 Revenue 113 ($363k) Expenses 122 ($383k) Net assets 99 ($532k)2021 Revenue 166 ($535k) Expenses 148 ($464k) Net assets 112 ($603k)2022 Revenue 121 ($390k) Expenses 176 ($550k) Net assets 82 ($443k)2023 Revenue 206 ($663k) Expenses 197 ($616k) Net assets 92 ($496k)2024 Revenue 239 ($770k) Expenses 229 ($716k) Net assets 103 ($555k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (239)Expenses (229)Net assets (103)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$30k
’18
−$16k
’19
−$20k
’20
$71k
’21
−$159k
’22
$47k
’23
$54k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $13k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS 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

100% of RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME

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

’18
’19
’20
Maine 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maine

Maine Association of Realtors85%Maine Medical Association83%Maine Dental Association82%Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation82%Maine State Chamber of Commerce81%Manufacturers Association of Maine81%Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association81%Maine Education Association81%

Nationally

Minnesota Retailers Association85%Maine Association of Realtors85%Retailers Association of Massachusetts Inc84%Maine Medical Association83%Illinois Retail Merchants Association82%Maine Dental Association82%Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation82%Retail Advancement Fund82%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

18
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 1 related entity

  • Merchant Services Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS 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 RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION?
RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $104,750 to it, the largest being Maine Workers Compensation Policyholder Trust ($104,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $104,750 in grants to RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION?
Maine Workers Compensation Policyholder Trust is the largest funder on record, with $104,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS 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.

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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing