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Little People of America Inc

Little People of America Inc (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $847,924 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($300,081). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$848k
Net assets
$2.2M
18/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Little People of America Inc does

Mission

Support group for short-statured individuals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants and allocations-Grants were awarded to short-statured individuals for various reasons, including education, medical needs, adoption and emergency situations. These grants are related to the organization's exempt purpose in helping short-statured individuals. A detailed list is available upon request.

    $105,415 spentof which $105,415 as grants
    14% of program spending
  2. Printing and Publications-A national newsletter (called 'LPA Today") and regional newsletters are published bimonthly. They are published on the national, regional and local level. Other publications such as informational pamplets and brochures are also published. LPA is also working on providing a living history of the organization. The organization also provides a web page that provides services for the members to use.

    $179,265 spent$176,670 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Symposiums, conferences and meetings are held monthly, quarterly and annually on the local, regional and national level. The meetings are for carrying out the exempt purpose of the organization. Registration fees and other fees are charged to the attendees and costs are paid out of these fees.

    $492,519 spent$328,751 earned by the program
    63% of program spending
  4. Other costs are allocated to program service expense such as newsletter postage.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $777,199.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($543k) Expenses 100 ($595k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 99 ($539k) Expenses 88 ($524k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 163 ($887k) Expenses 120 ($714k) Net assets 116 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 75 ($408k) Expenses 53 ($315k) Net assets 123 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 82 ($447k) Expenses 51 ($304k) Net assets 135 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 63 ($341k) Expenses 105 ($622k) Net assets 112 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 153 ($832k) Expenses 84 ($499k) Net assets 139 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 177 ($963k) Expenses 154 ($918k) Net assets 143 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 242 ($1.3M) Expenses 149 ($888k) Net assets 178 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (242)Expenses (149)Net assets (178)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+23%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

58% of Little People of America 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
$16k
’18
$174k
’19
$93k
’20
$143k
’21
−$281k
’22
$333k
’23
$45k
’24
$424k
’25
11
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.

Chief executive

Deb Himsel

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed121212121212121212
Joined·+1+4+2+2+3+5+2+1
No longer listed·14223521
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $8k → $231k.

6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Little People of America Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

Little People of America Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

52% 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 Little People of America Inc.

35%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 29% · 2019 33% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 21% · 2023 42% — 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

37% of Little People of America Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Little People of America Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Little People of America Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Little People of America Inc?
Little People of America Inc (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $847,924 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($300,081). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Little People of America Inc have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $847,924 in grants to Little People of America Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Little People of America Inc?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,081 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Little People of America Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing