Louisiana · Nonprofit
PEOPLE PROGRAM INC
PEOPLE PROGRAM INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,201 to it, the largest being CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES INC ($274,225). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $354k
- Net assets
- $525k
What People Program Inc does
Mission
To provide opportunities for individuals 50 years old and older to share knowledge and experience, express creativity, and develop new interests.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The program offers creative, physical, and intellectual activities which contribute to renewed self-esteem and sense of well being for senior citizens in the greater new orleans area. The program is for people to share knowledge, crafts, and arts. The program offers about 100 weekday classes in fall, spring and summer sessions at two campuses on the eastbank and westbank of the mississippi river and online. All teachers and instructors at the program are volunteers who are interested in sharing their knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere where community building is essential.
$259,870 spent$168,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $259,870.
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 2022 to 2023, from $554k to $720k (+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: 2021 25% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of PEOPLE PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Chandra Richardson
Executive director
Board chair
Helen Young
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $32k → $24k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PROGRAM 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 PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 74% · 2019 66% · 2020 93% · 2021 75% · 2022 77% · 2023 54% — 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
PEOPLE PROGRAM INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
PEOPLE PROGRAM INC receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $354k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLE PROGRAM 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 PROGRAM 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 PROGRAM INC?
- PEOPLE PROGRAM INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,201 to it, the largest being CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES INC ($274,225). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $354,201 in grants to PEOPLE PROGRAM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE PROGRAM INC?
- CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $274,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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