Virginia · Nonprofit
RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION- IMA 41-7022592 ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300
- Net assets
- $26M
What Retail Merchants Association does
Mission
To encourage, stimulate, extend, and promote all locally owned independent businesses in central virginia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoted the retail industry in the central virginia area through representation before local and state government on behalf of retail and service business issues, educational programs for members and their employees, development of services to assist members, and providing networking opportunities.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 $25M to $21M (−19%).
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: 2021 6% · 2023 5%. 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 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
Nancy Thomas
CEO/president/secretary/treasurer
Board chair
Kevin Reardon
Chair
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: $14k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Valor Rva Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of RETAIL 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 MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
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.
Government funding RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $360 on record.
- Membership in Organizations$360
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RETAIL 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Retail Advancement Fund · exempt
- Merchants' Services LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RETAIL 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 MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION?
- RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION- IMA 41-7022592 ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300 in grants to RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION?
- RETAIL MERCHANTS FOUNDATION- IMA 41-7022592 is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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