New York · Nonprofit
MERCADO GLOBAL INC
MERCADO GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,902,179 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($740,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $125k
What Mercado Global Inc does
Mission
Mercado global empowers rurual artisian entrepreneurs across the americas to lift their families out of poverty through business training and access to international markets. Through our nonprofit model, we strengthen communities and families, weaving market access, community-based education,and asset development into a program focused on financial independence to overcome poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic empowerment program our economic empowerment program helps rural artisan entrepreneurs break the cycle of local poverty through market access, business education, and asset development.through our market access program, we help over 1,000 rural artisan entrepreneurs build their own community artisan businesses and access international markets. The rural artisans we partner with are incredibly talented weavers whose main obstacle to overcome poverty is lack of access to a market. Now, through their work with mercado global, these artisans are able to access the international market and earn a fair wage for the first time in their lives. With our partner artisans, we design collections for major international fashion brands and retailers that are handmade in theircommunities.through our community-based education program, we provide technical and business training in local languages that complement market access opportunities. Building business skills and market-ready technical weaving and sewing skills,when paired with income-earning opportunities, enables rural artisans to become confident leaders who look after their families' health, finances, and education.through our…
$969,615 spent$605,611 earned by the program59% of program spendingRural entrepreneurs leadership training programin conjunction with our economic empowerment program, our community-based rural entrepreneursleadership training program helps rural artisans gain the skills they need to build successful businesses and lift their families out of poverty. Our leadership training classes are conducted in our partner communities and cover topics ranging from financial literacy to leadership skills, goal-setting, self-esteem and financial management for rural artisan entrepreneurs. Our in-house business training team provides courses in each of our partner communities for rural artisans, most of whom cannot read and write, and who are learning to navigate business-ownership for the first time.
$355,843 spent22% of program spendingCommunity partnerships programwe seek to build mutual understanding and facilitate cultural exhcange between artisan communities across the americas and our supporter communities in the united states. Through the community partnership programm, individuals from the u.s. Visit communities in guatemala to see the impact of their support. Likewise, our current and past staff, volunteers and supporters act as fair trade ambassadors within their communities in the u.s. Through speaking engagements, community events and other awareness-raising functions.
$189,795 spent11% of program spendingDesign a difference programas pioneers in the ethical-sourcing movement within the fashion industry, we educate leading u.s.-based designers about responsible sourcing through our design a difference program. Designersfrom major u.s. Fashion houses come to our offices to work alongside our artisans and learnabout the impact that sustainable production has in these communities. In turn, the designersextend their expertise in product design and development directly to our artisans. Upon returningto the u.s., these designers are then able to share their knowledge and adopt sustainablepractices within their companies. In this way we are reaching the people and institutions on thecutting edge of industry with first-hand experience empowering communities through responsiblesourcing.
$136,086 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,651,339.
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 2021 to 2022, from $417k to $700k (+68%).
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of MERCADO GLOBAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Ruth Alvarez-Degolia
Executive director
Board chair
Marta Bezoari
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $108k → $342k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 MERCADO GLOBAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
MERCADO GLOBAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
74% 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 MERCADO GLOBAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 19% · 2019 45% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 44% · 2023 15% — 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
26% of MERCADO GLOBAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
61% of MERCADO GLOBAL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
MERCADO GLOBAL INC's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCADO GLOBAL INC?
- MERCADO GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,902,179 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($740,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCADO GLOBAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,902,179 in grants to MERCADO GLOBAL INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCADO GLOBAL INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $740,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCADO GLOBAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 47 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