New York · Nonprofit
THE LITTLE MARKET INC
THE LITTLE MARKET INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,537,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,681,745). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $17k
What The Little Market Inc does
Mission
The little market is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports the reach of artisan-made goods from underserved communities around the world and raises awareness about fair trade and human rights. We focus on connecting artisan and producer groups with larger retailers and buyers. In an effort to support the artisan and producer groups we have worked with, we will connect clients directly to the individual groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Little market covered essential operational costs to keep its website active and functional. Maintaining the site allowed us to continue supporting previous customers with questions related to the closure, assist interested buyers seeking to connect with artisan and producer groups, facilitate orders for remaining artisan goods, and address other inquiries as we wound down operations. These funds supported key expenses, including monthly website fees, work performed by three regular consultants, outstanding gift card refunds, and necessary accounting and legal services.
$6,760 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,760.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.8M to $883k (−51%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE LITTLE MARKET INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Hannah Taylor
Chair and director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $4.0M.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 THE LITTLE MARKET 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE LITTLE MARKET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 THE LITTLE MARKET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 85% · 2022 94% · 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of THE LITTLE MARKET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
94% of THE LITTLE MARKET 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 $708k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE LITTLE MARKET INC's revenue fell 99% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE LITTLE MARKET INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LITTLE MARKET INC?
- THE LITTLE MARKET INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,537,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,681,745). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LITTLE MARKET INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $11,537,334 in grants to THE LITTLE MARKET INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LITTLE MARKET INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,681,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LITTLE MARKET 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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