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PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC

PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,893,988 to it, the largest being ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($1,835,396). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$17M
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What People Encouraging People Inc does

Mission

People encouraging people, inc. Is a non-profit behavioral health corporation dedicated to providing life-transforming rehabiliation and support services to people in baltimore who are disabled or disadvantaged. Our services are value-based and designed specifically for each individual's challenges. We are committed to helping our clients become accepted and productive members of the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide rehabilitation, social experience, education, training, & employment to approximately 1,600 chronically mentally ill & other functionally disabled adults.

    $26,216,933 spent$23,036,322 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,216,933.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($9.1M)2018 Revenue 105 ($25M) Expenses 102 ($24M) Net assets 109 ($10.0M)2019 Revenue 118 ($28M) Expenses 108 ($25M) Net assets 139 ($13M)2020 Revenue 120 ($28M) Expenses 112 ($26M) Net assets 161 ($15M)2021 Revenue 125 ($29M) Expenses 111 ($26M) Net assets 198 ($18M)2022 Revenue 119 ($28M) Expenses 109 ($25M) Net assets 226 ($21M)2023 Revenue 112 ($26M) Expenses 119 ($28M) Net assets 210 ($19M)2024 Revenue 124 ($29M) Expenses 127 ($30M) Net assets 203 ($19M)2025 Revenue 121 ($28M) Expenses 129 ($30M) Net assets 184 ($17M)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (129)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $23M to $29M (+26%).

$14M
$15M
$17M
$23M
$29M
$27M
$26M
$25M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
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2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% · 2024 24% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$160k
’17
$848k
’18
$2.7M
’19
$2.1M
’20
$3.4M
’21
$2.5M
’22
−$1.5M
’23
−$586k
’24
−$1.8M
’25
0.8
months of
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

Dale E Meyer

President/CEO

Board chair

Chamberlain Diala

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151817181917181717
Joined·+6+1+4+3+4+2+3+1
No longer listed·32326141
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $188k → $278k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE 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 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

64% 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 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 86% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

NY
MD
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record — $8.5M federal, $1.9M state.

Federal$8.5M
grants $8.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$8.5M
State$1.9M
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Top programs
  • Grant$1.9M

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 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Pep Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Mt Washington Homes Inc · exempt
  • Cloville Homes Inc · exempt
  • Hampton Falls Inc · exempt
  • Hamilton Park Homes Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC?
PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,893,988 to it, the largest being ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ($1,835,396). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,893,988 in grants to PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC?
ARUNDEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,835,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEOPLE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 6 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