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BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC

BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being OSBORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$3.7B
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Believe in People Inc does

Mission

See schedule oall grants are made solely for the purpose of supporting entities and individuals working to move society toward one more fully characterized by equal rights and mutual benefit where people succeed by helping others improve their lives and everyone has the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. All grants made solely for the purpose of supporting entities and individuals working to move society toward one more fully characterized by equal rights and mutual benefit where people succeed by helping others improve their lives and everyone has the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

    $200,104,095 spentof which $200,104,095 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,104,095.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 0 ($52) Expenses 29 ($2.4M) Net assets 6 ($189k)2021 Revenue 0 ($3k) Expenses 0 ($3k) Net assets 6 ($188k)2022 Revenue 41367 ($4.3B) Expenses 423 ($35M) Net assets 143670 ($4.3B)2023 Revenue 68 ($7.0M) Expenses 4596 ($381M) Net assets 131099 ($3.9B)2024 Revenue 76 ($7.9M) Expenses 2448 ($203M) Net assets 124542 ($3.7B)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (76)Expenses (2448)Net assets (124542)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $188k to $4.3B (+2273835%).

$3.2M
$189k
$188k
$4.3B
$4.1B
$3.9B
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’19
−$2.4M
’20
−$530
’21
$4.3B
’22
−$374M
’23
−$195M
’24
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Charles Chase Koch

Director/chairman/president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20192020202220232024
Listed94655
Joined·+0·+0+2
No longer listed·5·12
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC's revenue fell 24% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−2478% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 14 related entities

  • Stand Together Fellowships · exempt
  • Stand Together Trust · exempt
  • Stand Together Foundation · exempt
  • Key Change Inc · exempt
  • Movement Musick Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC?
BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being OSBORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC.
Who is the largest funder of BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC?
OSBORNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BELIEVE IN PEOPLE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing