· Private foundation
People Helping People U S A
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN LEGION | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN HOSPIAL | $18,000 |
| LOMA LINDA CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER | $6,500 |
| F I N D | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL SAMARITANS | $5,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION AT PSUSD | $5,000 |
| ELEANOR SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| INDIO SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| WALMART | $4,368 |
| GRASS ROOTS JR TENNIS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +16%- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +32%
- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Humane treatment of animals
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
To support the short and long term welfare of domestic animals in need across the las vegas valley.
To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.
To provide housing and care for companion animals until adoption or other placement is secured.
The organization is interested in the promotion of animal health and the well being of animals, public health, the enactment of laws regulating the practice of veterinary medicine, and the control of diseases of animals.
Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
To make shelter dogs with medical needs more adoptable by providing the necessary medical funds.
Veterans serving veterans.
Giving refuge to non-releasable, rescued wildlife while providing conservation through exhibition and public education.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OWEN COFFMAN AMERICAN LEGION POST 519 ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds THE WELL IN THE DESERT INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVING ALL ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCI ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WOMEN FOR AGRICULTURE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charity Works · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization People Helping People U S A funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from People Helping People U S A. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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