Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,957,403 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($2,660,877). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Mennonite Economic Development Associates does
Mission
MEDA creates business solutions to poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MEDA works alongside our partners and clients to help: i) alleviate poverty, ii) support sustainable business growth and livelihoods, iii) women move into more valued and equitable roles in their economies, iv) businesses and small entrepreneurs gain access to financial services including investment, adopt clean technologies/climate-smart approaches, and minimize their environmental footprint, and v) improve their economies. MEDA's development programs include a full range of economic development tools: financial services, improved technology, business training and better access to markets. Our development program work most often focuses on women, youth and people living in poverty in rural areas.
$3,010,578 spent$3,274,982 earned by the program49% of program spendingMEDA develops and invests in vehicles that assist low-income persons in developing countries through the provision of credit and equity financing that creates businesses and income generation to assist the poor.
$1,143,988 spent$249,109 earned by the program19% of program spendingMEDA programs facilitates the connection of faith and work through discussions, publications and conventions for participants.
$1,987,899 spent$200,025 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,142,465.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $26M to $20M (−25%).
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 20% · 2022 30% · 2023 39% · 2024 34% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 Nyambi
President/CEO, MEDA
Board chair
Crystal Weaver
Board Director, Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $731k → $128k.
15 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES’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
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 53% · 2019 54% · 2020 63% · 2021 71% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record.
- Agency for International Development$16.4M
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 MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 4 related entities
- Mennonite Economic Development Associates of Canada · exempt
- MEDA Europa · exempt
- MEDA International · exempt
- MEDA Impact Investments · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES: 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 MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES?
- MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,957,403 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($2,660,877). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $5,957,403 in grants to MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES?
- FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,660,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 24 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