Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC
PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,038,407 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($509,821). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What People Acting in Community Endeavors Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives of low-income individuals and families within the greater new bedford, massachusetts area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child care services - provides the administration of the income eligible subsidized child care program for southeastern massachusetts communities on behalf of the commonwealth of massachusetts department of early education and care. Additional support is provided by community partnerships and competitive awards which allows for training and support for community-based child care programs.
$137,437,182 spent$137,307,375 earned by the program88% of program spendingFuel assistance program - provides financial assistance to income eligible households with energy related expenses.
$10,554,429 spent$10,603,433 earned by the program7% of program spendingHead start program - provides comprehensive child development services for income eligible pre-preschool children and their families.
$5,915,649 spent$6,543,128 earned by the program4% of program spendingCommunity service block grant and other supporting grants - provides administrative support for the community action agency programming and the community food pantry.
$988,454 spent$1,064,521 earned by the program1% of program spendingMiscellaneous social service programs focused on meeting the specific health and welfare needs of the greater new bedford, massachusetts community.
$907,054 spent$995,729 earned by the program1% of program spendingYouthbuild - provides job training and educational opportunities for at-risk youth by allowing the opportunity to learn construction job skills while completing their high school education.
$682,113 spent$732,602 earned by the program0% of program spendingChild nutrition program - provides nutritionally appropriate subsidized meals to income eligible children enrolled in organization managed programs.
$175,646 spent$188,362 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $156,660,527.
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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $26M (+58%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% · 2024 12% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Pamela Kuechler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $93k → $204k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC’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
PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
91% 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 PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 61% · 2019 47% · 2020 70% · 2021 28% · 2022 49% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
92% of PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $790k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$37.0M
- Department of Labor$3.2M
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.
Organizations like PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pace Community Housing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC?
- PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,038,407 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($509,821). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,038,407 in grants to PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC?
- SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $509,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS 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.
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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 19 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