California · Nonprofit
PEER VOICES UNITED
PEER VOICES UNITED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,430 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($10,930). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $-5801
What Peer Voices United does
Mission
Through our programs and partnerships Peer Voices United reaches thousands of individuals each month with life-saving support education and health resources. We are proud to be a peer-run organization that not only provides direct services but also works tirelessly to uplift the voices and address the needs of our community members. Our work fosters recovery reduces barriers to mental health support and builds a more resilient and empowered community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
PVU provides support services for individuals involved with the justice system focusing on peer mentorship job training housing assistance and behavioral health support for those transitioning from incarceration. Our focus is on reducing recidivism and promoting self-sufficiency. Through the Peer & Clinician Collaborative Alliance PCCA we are strengthening the behavioral health workforce. Peer Voices United holds a 50% stake in PCCA a unique training initiative designed to bridge the gap between peer specialists and clinical professionals. PCCA offers certification programs cross-disciplinary training and collaborative learning opportunities for peer specialists community health workers and clinicians. This ensures a more integrated and effective behavioral health workforce. Together PVU and PCCA train and certify professionals increase workforce capacity and improve the quality of care reinforcing the peer-led movement in behavioral health.
$199,984 spentof which $157,930 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $199,984.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $899k to $256k (−72%).
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.
0% of PEER VOICES UNITED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 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
Orlando Vera
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 PEER VOICES UNITED’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
PEER VOICES UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 PEER VOICES UNITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
65% of PEER VOICES UNITED'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PEER VOICES UNITED receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEER VOICES UNITED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEER VOICES UNITED: 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 PEER VOICES UNITED?
- PEER VOICES UNITED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,430 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($10,930). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEER VOICES UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,430 in grants to PEER VOICES UNITED.
- Who is the largest funder of PEER VOICES UNITED?
- PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEER VOICES UNITED 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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