Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC
HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,493,336 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($1,260,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Haymarket People's Fund Inc does
Mission
Haymarket people's fund is an anti-racist and multi-cultural foundation that is committed to strengthening the movement for social justice in new england. Through grantmaking, fundraising, and capacity building, we support grassroots organizations that address the root causes of injustice. Haymarket also organizes to increase sustainable community philanthropy throughout our region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grantee program: haymarket's grants provided essential resources to sustaining and urgent response grassroots community organizations across the new england region.
$1,240,461 spentof which $981,913 as grants95% of program spendingThe donor-advised grantmaking program: allows individuals and families to use the resources, knowledge, and grantmaking expertise of haymarket people's fund to direct their personal philanthropy. After decades of conducting this program, an assessment indicated it was not a mission fit as it relates to haymarket's focus. This account also provides a substantial contribution to the public donations. All supporters are encouraged to support haymarket's grant pool, where funding decisions are deeply vetted providing a greater regional impact.
$24,553 spentof which $23,000 as grants2% of program spendingCommunity building: haymarket leases meeting and office space to non-profit organizations and community groups. Tenants typically are mission-driven and community based. They may or may not receive programmatic funding from haymarket.
$46,137 spent$81,569 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,311,151.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.0M to $12M (+34%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Karla Nicholson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $120k → $846k.
21 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 22% · 2019 56% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
55% of HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.8M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC: 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 HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC?
- HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,493,336 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($1,260,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $8,493,336 in grants to HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC?
- COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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