Minnesota · Nonprofit
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,247,911 to it, the largest being POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $24M
What People Serving People Inc does
Mission
To support families who are experiencing housing instability by providing shelter, early childhood education, housing stabilization, and systems change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In may of 2024, we were gifted st. Anne's place, a shelter for women or non-binary head of household and their children. As we get to know our new families, we look forward to being able to extend our services and resources to help them reach the goal of financial and housing stability. On december 31, 2024, people serving people charities, inc. Merged into people serving people, inc. And all assets and liabilities were transferred in the merger.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Emergency shelter:in 2024, people serving people, inc. (psp) welcomed an average of 319 guests per night. The average length of stay was 173 days and the average family size was 3.37. Psp served (unduplicated) 342 individual families totaling 544 shelter stays. In 2024, psp welcomed back more volunteers and had 995 volunteers who donated 8,435 hours of time. Psp served over 170,000 meals. Of the guests, 59.6% were under the age of 18, and 23.1% were under the age of 6. Additionally, 92.5% of guests identified as black, indigenous, or people of color. The average age of children staying at psp was 8 years old. Psp offers guests a range of wrap-around services to support them in their journey to stability. Guests can choose whether or not to access these services, including basic needs, education, employment assistance, technology access, financial literacy, systems advocacy, and connections to other supportive local organizations.
$7,825,434 spent$7,331,598 earned by the program60% of program spendingHomelessness prevention program:psp's family homelessness prevention program was launched as a pilot program in 2021. With community support, psp increased the direct financial assistance available to participating families and expanded the program to serve more families. This program aims to prevent the experience, or re-experience, of homelessness through connection with fast and flexible resources and limited case management, allowing families to stay stably housed. For participating families, 2024 saw a dramatic increase in need and requests for assistance. These requests were typically for support with security deposits, back rent, rent support, car repairs/ transportation/tire replacement, and cell phones to assist with job searches and childcare communications. In 2024, 285 families received services and prevented the re-experience of homelessness through this program, and 58 families could remain stably housed before experiencing homelessness.
$2,425,797 spent$468,068 earned by the program19% of program spendingFamily support services programs:while staying at psp, families are encouraged to participate in the organization's strengths-based, client-centered programming that empowers families to reach stability by addressing their self-identified barriers and areas of potential growth. Every family is assigned an advocate who will be their primary touch point and case manager throughout their stay, although they can speak to any advocate anytime. These advocates offer individual sessions and conversations to help families work toward their self-determined stability goals. In 2024, psp advocate staff held 480 1:1 meetings with guests (unduplicated). In addition to these individual support systems, psp also offers more structured programming. In 2024, 313 parents were able to attend personalized financial fitness classes, and of those guests, 91 opened new savings accounts. To find job openings and housing opportunities, psp supported 127 guests with employment services sessions and visited psp's technology resource center to search for jobs, prepare resumes, and seek out opportunities for their careers. While 9.7% of guests were employed when they arrived at psp, 30% were employed when…
$1,642,594 spent$268,527 earned by the program13% of program spendingEducational programs:people serving people's commitment to helping families address the root causes of their homelessness and return to stability is grounded in the importance of education. In 2024, 170 children were able to enroll in our shelter's education programs. These programs included the onsite licensed and nationally accredited early childhood development program which serves children aged infancy through preschool monday through friday. Psp's k-12 youth engagement program offers educational support for school-aged children, including homework help, social activities, and other celebrations. This program is offered after school and during the summer. In addition to on-site offerings, psp operates the offsite center of excellence preschool and learning center located at first covenant church of minneapolis. This program features education and childcare for infants, preschool, kindergarten preparation, parent engagement programs, and systems change work to improve the field of family resilience and trauma-informed education and service. The center is part of psp's continuity of care initiative which enables us to provide supportive continuity of services for families…
$1,198,869 spentof which $5,939 as grants$1,496,527 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,092,694.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $26M (+484%).
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.
73% of PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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.
Chief executive
Hoang Murphy
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Luke Derheim
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $245k → $845k.
20 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $41M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest People Serving People Charities Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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 SERVING PEOPLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
35% 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 SERVING PEOPLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 55% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 21% — 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
39% of PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
89% of PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $934k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 SERVING PEOPLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 818 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 1 related entity
- People Serving People Charities Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE 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 SERVING PEOPLE INC?
- PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,247,911 to it, the largest being POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $5,247,911 in grants to PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC?
- POHLAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 103 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing