Georgia · Nonprofit
PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC
PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,123 to it, the largest being WILLIAM P SMITH JR CHARITABLE ($477,063). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What People Making Progress Inc does
Mission
To provide services to adults with disabilities to enrich the participants' ability to make productive contributions to their communities, as well as to enhance those skills which enable the participant to become more independent and self sufficient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided job skills training, employment placement and support and supported living to adults with disabilities.
$1,561,388 spent$1,991,866 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,561,388.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $3.6M (+30%).
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 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Maureen O'Brien
Executive director
Board chair
Joseph Ashkouti
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $44k → $115k.
1 of 7 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 MAKING PROGRESS 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 MAKING PROGRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81 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.
Against its field
PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC: 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 MAKING PROGRESS INC?
- PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,123 to it, the largest being WILLIAM P SMITH JR CHARITABLE ($477,063). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $528,123 in grants to PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC?
- WILLIAM P SMITH JR CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $477,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE MAKING PROGRESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 7 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