Maine · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $770k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $555k
What Retail Association of Maine F/K/A Maine Merchants Association does
Mission
The association's primary exempt purpose is to improve business conditions for its members in the retail, wholesale, and service industries by representing its members and keeping them informed of laws and regulations affecting them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The association reviews, discusses, and advocates on behalf of their members on numerous pieces of legislation that impact members' businesses. The association also testifies on legislation, notifies members of changes to passed legislation, and communicates the input of their members into the legislative process.
The association communicates with their membership on issues that affect their businesses through newsletters, informational emails, and direct mailings.
The association organizes a number of events to help educate their membership on issues that affect their businesses. These events include practice workshops, legislative round tables, marketing and retail-specific workshops.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 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.
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 $616k to $466k (−24%).
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: 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.
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
Judy Knapp
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $13k.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF MAINE F/K/A MAINE MERCHANTS 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Merchant Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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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.
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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 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