Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,661 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ($680,796). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Caring People Alliance does
Mission
To reduce poverty and injustice by providing high quality services that nurture positive child and youth development, stable families across the life cycle, and thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In April of 2024, Caring People Alliance received an award from the City of Philadelphia to operate a Community Umbrella Agency that provides case management services for children and youth in foster care.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Early Learning Resource Center (ELRC) Region 18 operates as a one-stop shop for families and child care providers in the City of Philadelphia. We assist almost 20,000 low income and former TANF families in Philadelphia by subsidizing child care for almost 30,000 children. The ELRC program helps all families in our service areas to find child care by providing child care resources and referral services. The ELRC also conducts the Commonwealths Keystone STARS quality improvement program for child care providers, helping them to achieve educational excellence and financial stability. The ELRC programs are supported through a contract with the Commonwelath of Pennsylvania and private grants and fund raising.
$335,611,834 spent$336,058,657 earned by the program98% of program spendingIn April of 2024 Caring People Alliance was awarded an $8.7 million contract through a competitive procurement process to operate the Community Umbrella Organization (CUA) for Northwest Philadelphia. The CUA provides case management services to approximately 300 youth in foster care annually. The primary goals of the case management program are family reunification and permanency. The CUA also provides prevention services to at risk families in the same region of NW Philadelphia. The contract renews annually.
$2,500,000 spent$2,500,000 earned by the program1% of program spendingBoys & Girls Clubs: Caring People Alliance provides high quality programs for school age students. We serve elementary, middle, and high school age children. These services are available at our North, West, and South Philadelhia Boys and Girls Clubs. Many of our programs are modeled after national Boys and Girls Clubs of America guidelines and standards. Our after-school programs following guidelines and standards set by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, PA State licensing, Philadelphia Department of Human Services Out of School Time program, as well as numerous specific requirements for operating funded programs. Our Boys and Girls Clubs include after school and full day summer camp, teen programs, educational programs, STEM programs, and trips. We serve almost 600 school age children per fiscal year.
$2,130,838 spent$1,817,368 earned by the program1% of program spendingChild Care Programs: Caring People Alliance provides high quality licensed child care to low-income families. We participate in Pennsylvanias Keystone STARS program and have achieved the highest STAR 4 rating at both of our child care centers. We provide child care for children from 3 to 5 years of age, funded by federal Head Start, Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts, and Philadelphia PHL Pre-K. We provide breakfast, lunch and a snack and are open from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM to accomodate working families. All programs include a variety of learning activities, gross and fine motor activities, arts, technology, swimming, music, and a variety of fun and educational trips. Parents are actively encouraged to volunteer with the program. We serve approximately 100 children at each of our sites in North and West Philadelphia.
$1,672,225 spent$1,869,539 earned by the program0% of program spendingDuring the tax year Caring People Allianceserved over 20,000 families and 30,000 children throughout Philadelphia through our ELRC programprovided over 10,000 meals to more than 300 senior citizens living in South Philadelphiaprovided year-round after school and full day summer programming to more than 600 children and youth at our Boys & Girls Clubs programsprovided high quality early education programs to over 200 3-5 year olds
$1,494,508 spent$822,367 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,409,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $41M to $22M (−46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 99% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Gerald Macdonald
President and CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Cohen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $53k → $148k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 68% · 2019 40% · 2020 66% · 2021 30% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
78% of CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- reBuilding Blocks · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE?
- CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,661 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ($680,796). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,653,661 in grants to CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $680,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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