North Dakota · Nonprofit
MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC
MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,307 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($32,280). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Marketplace of Ideasmarketplace for Kids Inc does
Mission
To encourage youth to explore entrepreneurship and self-employment through the recognition and development of their inventive creative thinking and problem solving skills.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Provides entrepreneurial education to students in grades three to eight, writes and maintains curricuum and providses technical support and tutorials to the education community youth organizations and home school families. Continuing education credit is offered. The project learning guide I available free of charge online. Marketplace organizes educational days during their fiscal year with thousands of participants. A compeitive event for the students interesting in taking their project to the next level. Classes and activities are designed to help students discover entrepreneurship, exploye career oppertunities, new technology and develop self-employment, financal literacy and leadership skills, students create a business, invent a technology project and present their model at the regional education days volunteers are utilized for the marketplace for kids program model.
$204,388 spent$250,581 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,388.
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 $36k to $95k (+161%).
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 71% · 2018 89% · 2019 86% · 2020 94% · 2021 88% · 2022 79% · 2023 82% · 2024 87% · 2025 93% · 2026 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Julie Raatz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2025 and FY2026 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS 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
MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 36% — 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
MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 50 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS 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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS 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 MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC?
- MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC (North Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,307 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($32,280). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $75,307 in grants to MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC?
- NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARKETPLACE OF IDEASMARKETPLACE FOR KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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