Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION
MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,680 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,680). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Merchant Row Association Corporation does
Mission
The mission of eastern market main street is to capitalize on our historic assets and entrepreneurial culture to promote, retain, and attract diverse, small businesses through the main street four-point approach of organization, promotion, design, and economic vitality.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Emms continually fulfilled its mission of supporting, promoting, and recruiting businesses by engaging small business technical assistance, award grants for facade improvements and operation, and hosting events to highlight the neighborhood and bring new customers into the area.
$493,736 spentof which $45,000 as grants$64,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $493,736.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $25k to $212k (+743%).
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: 2018 75% · 2019 84% · 2021 80% · 2022 80% · 2023 98% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Judith Thomas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION’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
MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION's revenue grew 36% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION: 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 MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION?
- MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,680 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,680). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,680 in grants to MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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