Vermont · Nonprofit
PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC
PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,021,920 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,771,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $438k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $104k
What People Power Initiatives Inc does
Mission
Charitable and educational programs and initiatives to foster and promote economic and social justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The eisenhower media network:an organization of expert former military, intelligence, and civilian national security officials devoted to using earned and social media to educate the public about national defense issues and budget priorities.- we grew our fellows from 11 to 15 and helped generate over 346 articles and hundreds of podcast interviews, including interviews with npr, newsweek, politico, the hill and other top national outlets- we held an annual in person meeting with the fellows.- we hosted an annual award ceremony in washington dc the pierre sprey awards with over 50 guests and award prizes to two reporters for independent investigative reporting. - we maintained a website with updated educational information.
$284,482 spentof which $12,000 as grants71% of program spendingUp in arms:a four-year campaign to raise public awareness and support for a reduction in excessive pentagon spending and to transfer those funds to other priorities that fuel the american dream, like healthcare, childcare, and education. We developed campaign strategy and plan for new campaign that launched in 2025
$100,000 spent25% of program spendingStamp stampede:a national movement with over 137,326 members dedicated to legally stamping messages on dollars to protest big money in politics and roadblocks to voting for minorities, students, disabled, and low-income people.- we recruited 117 new members- we maintained a website that logged 114,589 reported stamped bill sightings.
$15,436 spent4% of program spendingAssange defense:comprising human rights defenders, press freedom advocates, civil liberties lawyers, and supporters across the united states, assange defense organizes public rallies, provides educational resources, and raises awareness about the unprecedented prosecution against julian assange and the threat it poses to the freedom of the press in the u.s.- we produce public educational materials about press freedom for social media and website. - we helped organize and support over a 100 events nationwide including distributed events on world press freedom day and independence day. - we ran online public education ads about press freedom in the united states.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $399,918.
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 $49k to $299k (+509%).
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.
100% of PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $241k → $1.0M.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 POWER INITIATIVES 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 POWER INITIATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 POWER INITIATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC'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
70% of PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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 POWER INITIATIVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
14%
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 POWER INITIATIVES 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 POWER INITIATIVES INC?
- PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,021,920 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,771,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,021,920 in grants to PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $2,771,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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