Maine · Nonprofit
PEOPLE PLUS
PEOPLE PLUS (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,501 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($73,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonlocalportfolio match
- The Smith Family Charitable Talocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% · 2024 36% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $13k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PLUS’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 PLUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 PLUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 96% · 2020 63% · 2021 63% · 2022 65% · 2023 75% — 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
33% of PEOPLE PLUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of PEOPLE PLUS'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 $71k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John T Gorman Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchME · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Eunice Frye Home Foundation CO Thomas M Pierce HM Paysonlocalportfolio matchME · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Smith Family Charitable Talocalportfolio matchOH · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Maine Agency on Aginglocalportfolio matchME · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompsonlocalportfolio matchME · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Incshared funderslocalME · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- United Way of Kennebec Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agnes M Lindsay Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oldenburg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hannaford Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mimi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared funderslocalME · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PEOPLE PLUS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Other Svcs-exc.Pub.Admin.$3k
- Laboratory Services$775
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 PLUS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE PLUS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE PLUS?
- PEOPLE PLUS (Maine) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,501 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($73,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEOPLE PLUS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $154,501 in grants to PEOPLE PLUS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE PLUS?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $73,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE PLUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing