- Revenue 2025
- $85,669
- Expenses 2025
- $214,907
Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 1136 GRAND AVE
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
THE MARKET ENTRY (TMEF) AIMS TO ADVANCE INCLUSION IN LOCAL FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS. OUR MISSION IS TO ENABLE TRADITIONALLY MARGINALIZED AND UNDERREPRESENTED ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE IN FOOD PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING, TO PARTICIPATE EQUITABLY IN THIS INDUSTRY. SPECIFICALLY, TMEF PROVIDES TECHNICAL SUPPORTS AND SERVICES, ALONG WITH MICRO-GRANTS, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION/AWARENESS TO HELP SMALL-SCALE FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANUFACTURERS WORK THROUGH RACIAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BARRIERS TO THEIR PARTICIPATION AND POTENTIAL IN THIS INDUSTRY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TMEF AIMS TO ADVANCES LOCAL FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS BY ENABLING UNDER-REPRESENTED AND UNDER-RESOURCED ENTREPRENEURS AND SMALL BUSINESSES IN FOOD PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURING TO ENTER AND PARTICIPATE EQUITABLY IN THIS INDUSTRY.
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1. MICRO GRANTS PROGRAM, PROVIDED MODEST FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO SMALL FOOD MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES STARTED BY OR OWNED BY UNDER-REPRESENTED AND/OR UNDER-RESOURCED POPULATIONS, SUCH WOMEN, RURAL, AND/OR PEOPLE OF COLOR - OWNED MICRO-ENTERPRISES. ACTIVITIES AND IMPACT INCLUDED: APPX. EIGHT (8) DECISION MEETINGS HELD TOTALING OVER 30 HOURS AND COUNTLESS MEETINGS AND HOURS FOR PLANNING; 65+ SMALL BUSINESSES SERVED, AND 19 MONETARY GRANTS AWARDED, TOTALING $95,000 (OR $5,000/EACH), AND REACHING AT LEAST 10-13 CITIES ACROSS MN, INCLUDING RURAL AND URBAN LOCATIONS AND VARIOUS COMMUNITIES.
Expenses $202,835 · Revenue $95
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3. COMMUNITY RETAIL SUPPORT AND 100K ACCELERATOR- FOCUSED ON TRAINING AND LEARNING HOW TO ENTER MARKETS WITH FOOD PRODUCTS FOR THE SAME TARGET POPULATION. SERVED 12 BUSINESSES AND THEIR PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCTS ENTER THE MARKET FOR THE FIRST TIME THROUGH A COMMUNITY RETAIL MODEL - WHICH PROVIDES A SUPPORTIVE RETAIL TRAINING (INCUBATOR) ENVIRONMENT FOR SMALL FOOD MAKERS TO LEARN AND GROW. ALSO SUPPORTED AN ADDITIONAL 40 LOCAL MAKERS THROUGH COMMUNITY RETAIL VIA CONNECTIONS TO OTHER NONPROFITS AND FOOD MARKET TRADESHOWS.
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3. COMMUNITY RETAIL SUPPORT AND 100K ACCELERATOR- FOCUSED ON TRAINING AND LEARNING HOW TO ENTER MARKETS WITH FOOD PRODUCTS - GOING BEYOND THE FARMER'S MARKETS. SERVED 12 BUSINESSES AND THEIR PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCTS ENTERED THE MARKET THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY RETAIL MODEL - WHICH PROVIDES A SUPPORTIVE RETAIL TRAINING (INCUBATOR) ENVIRONMENT FOR SMALL FOOD MAKERS TO LEARN AND GROW. SUPPORTED AN ADDITIONAL 50 LOCAL MAKERS THROUGH COMMUNITY RETAIL - IN WHICH RETAIL SUPPORT RESULTED IN HIGHER PRICES FOR THE MAKER; AND ENTRY INTO MORE GROCERY STORE SHELVES AND DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER MULTIPLE STATES.
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Brendan KurversBRENDAN KURVERS
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.15
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Mala ThaoMALA THAO
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.15
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Terri BarreiroTERRI BARREIRO
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.2
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Lorrene OcchinoLORRENE OCCHINO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.2
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Junita FlowersJUNITA FLOWERS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.12
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Kayla Yang-BestKAYLA YANG-BEST
PRESIDENT & CEO
- Total calculated
- $30,000
- From this org
- $30,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $85,669
- Expenses
- $214,907
- Contributions
- $78,670
- Grants paid
- $95,000
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2024
- Revenue
- $486,443
- Expenses
- $210,503
- Contributions
- $475,880
- Grants paid
- $84,500
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2023
- Revenue
- $226,959
- Expenses
- $86,074
- Contributions
- $226,959
- Grants paid
- $21,850
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Grants made
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HOYO SBC
$20,000
2024 BUSINESS
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JUNITA'S JAR LLC
$14,500
2024 BUSINESS
Grants received
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$260,480
2022 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
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$48,826
2023 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
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2023 MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR PROGRAMS, OPERATIONS, OR OTHER PURPOSES
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$30,000
2024 GENERAL
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.