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People Centered Internet

PCI partners to build resilient communities enabled by digital infrastructure and ecosystems, informed by local priorities and goals

$400k
Granted FY2022
4
Itemized grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
75%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$318k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$227,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$19k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 75% of the organizations People Centered Internet funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22
Science & TechCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$318k75%
FY20211$113k100%
FY20201$140kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Science & Tech$420kEducation$140kCommunity Improvement$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Edgemoor Research Institute$340,000233%
Mural Company$140,000137%
Fort Bidwell Indian Communitiy$40,0001n/a
Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe$40,0001n/a
Institute for Local Self Reliance$10,00010%

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How do I get to People Centered Internet?

Find your warmest path to People Centered Internet through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About People Centered Internet

How much does People Centered Internet give?
People Centered Internet reported 4 itemized grants totaling $317,500, out of $399,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does People Centered Internet fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Science & Tech (74%), Education (25%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are People Centered Internet's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Edgemoor Research Institute ($340k), Mural Company ($140k), Fort Bidwell Indian Communitiy ($40k).
Does People Centered Internet fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is People Centered Internet based?
People Centered Internet is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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