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Peoplefund

PEOPLEFUND creates economic opportunity and financial stability for underserved people and communities by providing access to capital, education, and resources to build healthy small businesses.

$1.3M
Granted FY2022
7
Itemized grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
57%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$969k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$130,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
7
Total assets, FY2022
$98M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 57% of the organizations Peoplefund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$969k57%
FY20214$279kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Community Improvement$1.2M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
OH
CO
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peoplefund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAccess to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBlack Business Investment Fund Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEconomic and Community Development Institute: $215,175 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSeattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw: $178,825 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNybdc Local Development Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetColorado Enterprise Fund: $33,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway Lending: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Opportunity Finance NetworkDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Community Reinvestment Fund Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Peoplefund

How much does Peoplefund give?
Peoplefund reported 7 itemized grants totaling $968,675, out of $1,286,075 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Peoplefund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Community Improvement (100%).
Who are Peoplefund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Inc ($300k), Black Business Investment Fund Inc ($300k), Economic and Community Development Institute ($215k).
Does Peoplefund fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Peoplefund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Opportunity Finance Network, Community Reinvestment Fund Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Peoplefund based?
Peoplefund is based in TX.

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 8 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports $495k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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