My solution for $n=3$ (upon Suvrit's request): To begin with, we solve $A+A^T=M$ together with $A{\bf1}={\bf1}$ (no inequality for the moment). This is a linear system in $A$, which consists in $9$ equations in $9$ unknowns. However, it is not Cramer, because the set of skew-symmetric matrices $B$ such that $B{\bf1}=0$ is one-dimensional, spanned by $$\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 & -1 \\\\ -1 & 0 & 1 \\\\ 1 & -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}.$$ In particular, there is a condition for solvability in $A$, but this condition is met by the assumption that $\sum_{i,j}m_{ij}=6$. Notice that $a_{ii}=\frac12m_{ii}$. Thus there is a solution $A$, and every solution is of the form $A+aB$. There remains to find $a$ so as to satisfy the inequality $A+aB\ge0_n$. For this, let us denote $\mu$ the lower bound of $(a_{12},a_{23},a_{31})$, and $\nu$ that of $(a_{21},a_{13},a_{32})$. **Claim**: we have $\nu+\mu\ge0$. This inequality allow us to find an $a$ such that $a_{12}+a,a_{23}+a,a_{31}+a,a_{21}-a,a_{13}-a,a_{32}-a\ge0$, which solves the problem. Proof of the claim: we have $a_{12}+a_{21}=m_{12}\ge0$, $a_{12}+a_{13}=1-\frac12m_{11}\ge0$ because of the assumption that $m_{ij}\le2$, and finally $$a_{12}+a_{32}=a_{12}+a_{21}+a_{32}+a_{23}-a_{21}-a_{23}=m_{12}+m_{23}+\frac12m_{22}-1.$$ Form the assumption, this is equal to $$2-m_{13}-\frac12(m_{11}+m_{33})\ge0.$$ Finally, every sum $a_{ij}+a_{ji}$, $a_{ij}+a_{ik}$ and $a_{ij}+a_{kj}$ of elements of both sets is non-negative, hence $\mu+\nu\ge0$. Q.E.D. **Adapting this proof to higher $n$ seems difficult, but not impossible**. Let us define $$s_A(I,J)=\sum_{i\in I,j\in J}a_{ij}.$$ If $A$ is any solution of $A+A^T=M$ and $A{\bf1}={\bf1}$, where $M$ meets the assumptions above, then for every $I,J$, we have $$s_A(I,J^c)+s_A(J,I^c)=|I|+|J|-s_M(I,J)\ge0.$$ Likewise, $a_{ij}+a_{ji}=m_{ij}\ge0$ for every $i,j$. We have therefore reduced our question to the following one > Suppose that a matrix $A\in M_n({\mathbb R})$ satisfies $a_{ij}+a_{ji}\ge0$ for every $i,j$, and $s_A(I,J^c)+s_A(J,I^c)\ge0$ for every index sets $I,J$. Is it true that there exists a skew-symmetric matrix $B$, satisfying $B{\bf1}={\bf0}$, such that $A+B$ is entrywise non-negative? (Remark that for such $B$, one has $s_B(I,J^c)+s_B(J,I^c)\equiv0$.) A side remark: this set of assumptions about $A$ is redundant. All of them derive from the smaller set of inequalities $$a_{ij}+a_{ji}\ge0,\quad\forall i,j,\qquad s_A(I,I^c)\ge0,\quad\forall I.$$ As a matter of fact, one has $$s_A(I,J^c)+s_A(J,I^c)=s_A(I\setminus J,I\setminus J)+s_A(J\setminus I,J\setminus I)+s_A(I\cap J,(I\cap J)^c)+s_A((I\cup J)^c,I\cup J)$$ and $s_A(K,K)\ge0$ follows from $a_{ij}+a_{ji}\ge0$.