Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Peace Development Fund
Peace Development Fund (Massachusetts) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,313,151 to it, the largest being Thousand Currents dba International Development Exchange ($4,000,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year. Peace Development Fund administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Peace Development Fund administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programPeace Development Fund runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$26M
Recipients
255
Contributions on record
$23M
Donors on record
157
Payments out are 1.14x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Solidaire Network Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Libra Foundationshared funders
- The James R & Mary Jane Barrett Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.0M.
38 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $76k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Peace Development Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money Peace Development Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of Peace Development Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 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.
Where its funders are
Peace Development Fund draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 152 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Solidaire Network Incshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Libra Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- The James R & Mary Jane Barrett Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcibie Alliance Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Global Justice Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 162 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 155 organizations that share your funders
- Mertz Gilmore Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Wallace Global Fund IIshared fundersDC · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Rockefeller Family Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- Movement Strategy Centershared fundersCA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fundshared fundersCA · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Peace Development Fund receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300 on record.
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$300
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Peace Development Fund: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Peace Development Fund?
- Peace Development Fund (Massachusetts) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,313,151 to it, the largest being Thousand Currents dba International Development Exchange ($4,000,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year. Peace Development Fund administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Peace Development Fund have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $22,313,151 in grants to Peace Development Fund, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Peace Development Fund?
- Thousand Currents dba International Development Exchange is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Peace Development Fund 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 152funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing