Minnesota · Nonprofit
PCS FOR PEOPLE
PCS FOR PEOPLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,373,725 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,450,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Pcs for People does
Mission
Pcs for People is a national nonprofit social enterprise working to get low-cost quality computers and internet into the homes of individuals, families, and nonprofits with low income. By recycling and then refurbishing computers, Pcs for People provides a valuable service to businesses, families, and the planet by keeping computers out of landfills and repurposing them to advance digital inclusion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Source, refurbish, distribute, and supportsource: our ability to distribute affordable technology is dependent on our recycling partnerships. We offer a nation-wide free end-of-life it service offering that includes naid aaa-certified data sanitization and r2-certified sustainable electronics recycling.refurbish: the donated technology is securely processed in our warehouses. Computers and are cleaned, processed through a stringent quality check, and installed with a new operating system.distribute: affordable high-quality computers are distributed to income qualified individuals through our retail stores, online, and through national distribution events and partners.support: once a customer has received a computer, it is important that they are confident in their purchase and feel supported. Each computer comes with a 1-year hardware warranty, free digital literacy training, and phone support. In fy 2024-25, Pcs for People collected over 119,000computers. More than 29,000 of these computers were refurbished and distributed to low-income families and individuals. Pcs for People also supported the computers distributed with warranty repairs and offered discounted repairs after the…
$19,718,427 spentof which $10,136,380 as grants$6,894,413 earned by the program85% of program spendingPcs for People offers nationwide low-cost high speed 5g and 4g lte mobile internet service provided by mobile beacon and mobile citizen. And 35 mile plans are prepaid with no credit check or hidden fees for income eligible individuals. In fy 2024-25, Pcs for People offered low-cost high speed 5g & 4g lte internet to more than 46,000 individuals.
$2,597,150 spent$1,510,729 earned by the program11% of program spendingPcs for People offers in-house, low-cost high speed fixed internet service in 9 states. Service is fixed at $15 a month in fy 2024-25, Pcs for People's fixed internet service consists of 38 network towers and 7 multi-dwelling units (mdus) covering more than 16,000 households.
$902,083 spent$2,073,231 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,217,660.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $11M (−45%).
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: 2021 3% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of PCS FOR PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Casey Sorensen
CEO
Board chair
Brendt Rusten
Interim chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $5k → $603k.
17 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PCS FOR PEOPLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
PCS FOR PEOPLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
69% 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 PCS FOR PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 29% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 35% — 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
12% of PCS FOR PEOPLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
54% of PCS FOR PEOPLE'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, 88% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PCS FOR PEOPLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PCS FOR PEOPLE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Pcs for People Colorado LLC · disregarded
- Pcs for People Georgia · disregarded
- Pcs for People Illinois · disregarded
- Pcs for People Kansas City LLC · disregarded
- Pcs for People Maryland LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PCS FOR PEOPLE?
- PCS FOR PEOPLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,373,725 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,450,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PCS FOR PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,373,725 in grants to PCS FOR PEOPLE, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PCS FOR PEOPLE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PCS FOR PEOPLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 67 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