California · Nonprofit
MERCADO LA PALOMA INC
MERCADO LA PALOMA INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $798k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $-3783655
What Mercado la Paloma Inc does
Mission
By providing affordable retail opportunities, technical assistance, start-up capital and support, mercado la paloma seeks to create business ownership opportunities and living wage jobs in our community and to offer needed goods, services, and essential services to residents and employees who retain spending in our neighborhood. By hosting art exhibits, music and dance performances, spoken word, film showings and other events mercado la paloma seeks to support and showcase local artists, provide high quality art and cultural opportunities for our community and impart the unique heritage of the areas residents through the non-profit offices and our affordable meeting room that hosts a wide range of community meetings, events and classes. By creating a warm and welcoming gathering space full of guests from all walks of life and open to their ideas and suggestions, mercado la paloma provides opportunities for empowerment, enjoyment and connection strengthening existing social ties and cre
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operating and maintaining a neighborhood marketplace and office building to serve tenants of seven (7) restaurants, six (6) shops and nine (9) offices as well as a community conference room and day table. Providing tenants with low-cost opportunities to yield services for the low-income community.
$1,126,671 spent$725,736 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,126,671.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $6.3M (−5%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of MERCADO LA PALOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 7 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Takao Suzuki
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MERCADO LA PALOMA 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MERCADO LA PALOMA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LA PALOMA INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MERCADO LA PALOMA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Esperanza Community Housing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCADO LA PALOMA 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 MERCADO LA PALOMA INC?
- MERCADO LA PALOMA INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCADO LA PALOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to MERCADO LA PALOMA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCADO LA PALOMA INC?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCADO LA PALOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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