Minnesota · Nonprofit
MARKET ENTRY FUND THE
MARKET ENTRY FUND THE (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,099 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($419,099). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $959k
- Net assets
- $263k
What Market Entry Fund The does
Mission
The market entry (tmef) aims to advance inclusion in local food supply chains. Our mission is to enable traditionally marginalized and underrepresented entrepreneurs who are in food production and manufacturing, to participate equitably in this industry. Specifically, tmef provides technical supports and services, along with micro-grants, and public education/awareness to help small-scale food and beverage manufacturers work through racial, social and economic barriers to their participation and potential in this industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Micro grants program, provided modest financial support to small food manufacturing businesses started by or owned by under-represented and/or under-resourced populations, such women, rural, and/or people of color - owned micro-enterprises. Activities and impact included: appx. Eight (8) decision meetings held totaling over 30 hours and countless meetings and hours for planning; 65+ small businesses served, and 19 monetary grants awarded, totaling $95,000 (or $5,000/each), and reaching at least 10-13 cities across mn, including rural and urban locations and various communities.
$202,835 spent$95 earned by the program100% of program spending3. Community retail support and 100k accelerator- focused on training and learning how to enter markets with food products for the same target population. Served 12 businesses and their packaged food products enter the market for the first time through a community retail model - which provides a supportive retail training (incubator) environment for small food makers to learn and grow. Also supported an additional 40 local makers through community retail via connections to other nonprofits and food market tradeshows.
3. Community retail support and 100k accelerator- focused on training and learning how to enter markets with food products - going beyond the farmer's markets. Served 12 businesses and their packaged food products entered the market through our community retail model - which provides a supportive retail training (incubator) environment for small food makers to learn and grow. Supported an additional 50 local makers through community retail - in which retail support resulted in higher prices for the maker; and entry into more grocery store shelves and distribution to other multiple states.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $146k to $392k (+168%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Kayla Yang-Best
President & CEO
Board chair
Brendan Kurvers
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $390k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MARKET ENTRY FUND THE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
MARKET ENTRY FUND THE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 MARKET ENTRY FUND THE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MARKET ENTRY FUND THE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like MARKET ENTRY FUND THE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARKET ENTRY FUND THE: 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 MARKET ENTRY FUND THE?
- MARKET ENTRY FUND THE (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $959,099 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($419,099). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARKET ENTRY FUND THE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $959,099 in grants to MARKET ENTRY FUND THE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARKET ENTRY FUND THE?
- PROPEL NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $419,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARKET ENTRY FUND THE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing