California · Nonprofit
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,932,127 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,800). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc does
Mission
Mandela Partners is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with local residents, family farmers, and community-based businesses to improve health, create wealth, and build assets through local food enterprises in limited-resource communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mandela Produce Distribution is a community-based food hub located in West Oakland that increases access to local, sustainably-grown fresh produce, while supporting the economic success of small-scale BIPOC farmers byproviding high quality, equitably-sourced produce to East Bay residents, community-based organizations, local food businesses, and other institutions through weekly CSA boxes, produce stands, wholesale and partnerships.
$1,134,304 spentof which $23,333 as grants$172,595 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe Culinary Employment Pathways program provides technical and professional skills needed for employment in the East Bay restaurant industry to community members who are facing any barriers to employment with an emphasis on people returning home from incarceration.
$264,777 spent12% of program spendingE14th Eatery and Kitchen is a food business incubatorandcommunity kitchen in unincorporated Alameda supporting local food entrepreneurs.
$809,425 spent37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,208,506.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $5.4M (+49%).
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: 2019 63% · 2020 37% · 2021 55% · 2022 73% · 2023 50% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Monique Brown
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $300k → $900k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 78% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 42% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.1M
- Department of Agriculture$1.3M
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 Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Oak Harvest Litchen LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc?
- Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,932,127 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,800). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $7,932,127 in grants to Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 41 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