Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NEW MARKETS LAB
NEW MARKETS LAB (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,766 to it, the largest being CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MEJORAMIENTO DE MAIZ Y TRIGO ($219,642). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $577k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $404k
- Net assets
- $115k
What New Markets Lab does
Mission
The corporation is organized for the charitable and educational purpose of: advance the spread of sustainable and equitable commercial agriculture along africa's "development corridors" in ways that measurably improve the income of small farmers and integrate them into a dynamic, internatinally competitive agricultural sector.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the New Markets Lab (NML) partnered with new and existing organizations to further its mission of advancing the spread of sustainable and equitable commercial agriculture to the benefit of small farmers and communities and leveraging law and regulation as a tool to advance economic and social development in an evolving global market.International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): In 2024, NML continued its collaboration with IFPRI under the CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow/Seed Equal Research Initiative. The Initiative aims to support the delivery of seed of improved, climate-resilient, market-preferred and nutritious varieties of priority crops that embody a high rate of genetic gain to farmers, ensuring equitable access for women and other disadvantaged groups. NML designed and documented an empirical mapping methodology for cross-country analysis of seed regulatory systems, structured around four core domains: (i) public varietal research, development, and transfer; (ii) seed variety registration and release; (iii) seed certification and quality assurance; and (iv) seed trade. The resulting comparative study featured Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda for the Agricultural…
$494,952 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $494,952.
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 $60k to $137k (+127%).
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: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NEW MARKETS LAB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
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 NEW MARKETS LAB’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
NEW MARKETS LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
97% 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 NEW MARKETS LAB.
“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
NEW MARKETS LAB draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
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
NEW MARKETS LAB's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW MARKETS LAB
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NEW MARKETS LAB: 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 NEW MARKETS LAB?
- NEW MARKETS LAB (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $403,766 to it, the largest being CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MEJORAMIENTO DE MAIZ Y TRIGO ($219,642). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW MARKETS LAB have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $403,766 in grants to NEW MARKETS LAB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MARKETS LAB?
- CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MEJORAMIENTO DE MAIZ Y TRIGO is the largest funder on record, with $219,642 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MARKETS LAB 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.
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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 3 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