Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARKET PROJECT INC
MARKET PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,576 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($183,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $418k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $314k
- Net assets
- $225k
What Market Project Inc does
Mission
To build sustainable businesses and create workplaces that are transformative and dignity-affirming for survivors of complex trauma. Survivors often struggle to find sustainable employment. We work with survivors to build thriving businesses that foster healing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainable work we create transformative and dignity-affirming jobs in market-based businesses for survivors of trauma, exploitation, and trafficking. These jobs build skills and promote flourishing in community to advance the survivor's healing journey. We also provide job-related training in areas such as sales, production and employee rights. In 2025, we registered a new business in northern uganda and began startup, including market research, product development and identification of supply chains. This is a region that experienced high levels of trauma during the 20 years of conflict between the lra and ugandan authorities and today hosts an estimated one million refugees from south sudan and congo. The region also is experiencing high population growth, including youth desperate for jobs and to earn a living.
$150,378 spentof which $55,312 as grants68% of program spendingTrauma healingwe offer holistic trauma training and care within the workplace. We train managers to understand the impact of trauma and adopt trauma-informed leadership practices. In partnership with trained nationals, we facilitate voluntary, 16-week trauma healing groups for employees. Mentors walk with survivors to further their healing journey. In 2025, we trained 19 community leaders in trauma healing program that has been provided to more than 200 men and women in a region that has experienced high levels of trauma, as well as ongoing engagement in a supportive community.
$21,771 spentof which $3,100 as grants10% of program spendingBuilding supportive communityrecognizing that healing takes place in community and in relationship with others, we strive to create genuine community-spaces of safety, remembrance, and reconnection. We support a community-based network that provides most basic food supplies to 200 families each month while offering participation in our trauma healing program. In our new business, we will provide a supportive work culture that encourages mutual respect, healthy dialogue and teamwork. Workers learn teamwork, build trust, and gain agency and voice. Workers typically share up to 25% of their earnings to support immediate and extended family.
$50,461 spentof which $43,710 as grants23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,610.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $227k to $377k (+66%).
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.
100% of MARKET PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Dorothy Douglas Taft
Executive director
Board chair
Eleanor J Nagy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $151k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PROJECT INC’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 PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of MARKET PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 70% 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
MARKET PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARKET PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MARKET PROJECT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% 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 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARKET PROJECT INC: 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 PROJECT INC?
- MARKET PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,576 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($183,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARKET PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $313,576 in grants to MARKET PROJECT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARKET PROJECT INC?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $183,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARKET PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 10 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