California · Nonprofit
People Acting in Community Together
People Acting in Community Together (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,395,145 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,219,085). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $883k
What People Acting in Community Together does
Mission
The Mission of People Acting in Community Together, Inc. (PACT or The Organization) is to empower everyday people to create a more just community. Founded in Eastside and downtown San Jose, and incorporated in The State of California in 1985.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other Programs:
$266,107 spentof which $986 as grants62% of program spendingVoter/Civic Engagement: The purpose of the Together We Vote Block Party is to provide a space for all community members to come togther for an educational, connectional, and celebratory block party. This is a non-partisan, non-lobbying event. In addition to food and family fun (such as arts and crafts, bouncy house, dj, etc.), volunteers offer assistance for voter registration, ballot initiatives, ballot translation and general ballot help, information about proposed voting initiatives (such as rank-choice voting or democracy dollars), and much more The purpose of PACT Civics Cohort is to provide civic education for members of our community for the purpose of building and sustaining a functional democracy. This cohort provides participants with the building blocks needed to build power and create change by acting together in the public sphere. In addition to providing practical tools and leadership training, we will create a sense of community, where we can engage diversity of thought and experience across race, gender, sexuality, country of origin, and religious or spiritual beliefs. The sessions follow only in San Joses civics masterclass (topics include: Government 101, Brown…
$95,345 spent22% of program spendingHousing: Our research for the past year has included meeting with elected officials, community organizations, housing attorneys, administrators, and more; consulting regional, county-wide, and city-specific data sources; and most importantly, we spoke with directly affected families. PACT leaders are thinking outside of the box, holding international research meetings, and bringing our faith to the streets through press conference and prayer vigils and our community actions. Our demands PACT leaders have determined that now is the time to pass state and local initiatives that provide: 1. Protections for renters 2. Allow access to affordable housing particularly the most vulnerable. 3. Find new pathways to homeownership and 4. Provide a guaranteed basic income. We started the year by sending a PACT group to Sacramento to join with our statewide federation to meet with legislators to pass SB 567, there were over 700 people. We are proud that SB 567 has passed We held research meetings, as well press conference and prayer vigils here at La Primera
$39,230 spent9% of program spendingImmigration: PACT has provided leadership in support of the immigrant community: We began our immigration work in 2008 through the Catholic Justice for Immigrants Campaign training Catholic leaders to talk to fellow parishioners about the impact of immigration. Since, then we worked to get the city of San Jose to be a welcoming city to immigrants. We developed PACTs solidarity network with over 70 congregations committed to provide support for immigrants in Santa Clara County. This included some churches forming accompaniment teams, to provide spiritual and referrals for families who had someone deported. In 2021, our immigrant leaders came together to support a bill that would change the registry date to allow more immigrants to qualify for citizenship. We ended last year with a social justice resource fair and brought together legal providers to give legal service and basic needs services to immigrants. We are hearing from immigrants, the need to access legal services but it is difficult to pay for these services. And
$28,625 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $429,307.
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 $1.4M to $368k (−75%).
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 3% · 2018 12% · 2019 34% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2025 12%. 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
Jon Pedigo
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $346k → $844k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Together’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 Together leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Together.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 35% · 2019 42% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 43% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of People Acting in Community Together's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of People Acting in Community Together'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like People Acting in Community Together
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for People Acting in Community Together: 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 People Acting in Community Together?
- People Acting in Community Together (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,395,145 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,219,085). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does People Acting in Community Together have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,395,145 in grants to People Acting in Community Together, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of People Acting in Community Together?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,219,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like People Acting in Community Together 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.
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