Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PEOPLE INCORPORATED
PEOPLE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,370,576 to it, the largest being IDA S CHARLTON CHARITY FD UA ($600,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $26M
What People Incorporated does
Mission
To strengthen our community for each of its members by providing premier services for children and adults of all abilities in a collaborative and creative environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - has 32 24-hour facilities housing over 148 individuals with developmental disabilities; provides less than 24 hr service to 75 people living in the community.
$31,772,463 spent$34,043,210 earned by the program60% of program spendingChildrens and youth services - over 1,200 individuals and families received early intervention and other outreach and group services for preschool children including day care.
$9,291,381 spent$7,093,424 earned by the program18% of program spendingDay and employment services - provides services to meet the work needs of disabled adults and facilitate their participation in community-based employment, along with opportunities in job placement, sheltered workshop, supported work, day habilitation, and community social experiences. Served over 300 people in fy2025.
$6,031,951 spent$8,473,219 earned by the program11% of program spendingFamily support center & community education - provides resources and referral and service navigation to families and individuals with developmental disabilities or other at-risk issues. Also provides individual/community supports, respite care, and adult foster care services. Over 3,000 families received services in fy2025.
$5,766,399 spent$6,363,305 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,862,194.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $25M to $29M (+15%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of PEOPLE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Megan Stirk
President/CEO
Board chair
Jason Rua
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $24k → $217k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $1.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Fall River Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PEOPLE INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of PEOPLE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PEOPLE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 54% · 2019 83% · 2020 80% · 2022 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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 INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 FY2022, 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
PEOPLE INCORPORATED draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k 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
PEOPLE INCORPORATED's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PEOPLE INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $353.8M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$287.9M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$65.1M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$824k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$9k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k
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 INCORPORATED
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
92% 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 5 related entities
- Property Innovations Inc · exempt
- Diabetes Association Inc · exempt
- Southcoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning Education and Services Inc · exempt
- People Improving Communities and Neighborhoods Inc · exempt
- People Incorpation Nmtc Support Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE INCORPORATED: 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 INCORPORATED?
- PEOPLE INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,370,576 to it, the largest being IDA S CHARLTON CHARITY FD UA ($600,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,370,576 in grants to PEOPLE INCORPORATED, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE INCORPORATED?
- IDA S CHARLTON CHARITY FD UA is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE INCORPORATED 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 15 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