California · Nonprofit
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114 to it, the largest being McNabb Foundation ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What People With Disabilities Foundation does
Mission
Provide education and advocacy for people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities with or without physical disabilities, so that they can achieve equal opportunities in all aspects of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy program: in 2023, we filed two new disability civil rights discrimination cases against the social security administration (ssa) in federal court for reasonable accommodations for clients who have schizophrenia as a primary disability. (case nos. 3:23-cv-01037 and 3:23-cv- (n.d. Cal.) in one case, plaintiff's supplemental security income (ssi) checks were initially held up for two years based on the ssa's false accusation that plaintiff had 1 million of real estate; this resulted in him being cast out on the streets homeless, being in four psychiatric hospitals and living in shelters, etc. In the other case, the ssa ceased plaintiff's benefits when she tried to work, eventually reinstating her but without the retroactive 12-months of benefits. The ssa should never have ceased her benefits, given her symptomatology, which includes disorganized thinking, visual, auditory, and olfactory hallucinations, and severe neuro-cognitive impairments putting her in the less than 2% in most categories. In both cases, the ssa had the medical information, which showed clear and convincing evidence, one for 27 years, that these individuals' symptomatology included hallucinations and/or…
$366,870 spent$12,830 earned by the program69% of program spendingEducation program: pwdf's public awareness and education program generally include outreach events, guest speaking, a quarterly e-newsletter, informational seminars, training sessions, and a youtube channel, which hosts our seminar and other videos. To date, we have ~70 videos from the 3-hour educational seminars on our youtube channel. In addition, we continue to market our employment training videos regarding employees and job applicants with mental and/or developmental disabilities for distribution. We have continued expansion of our public awareness and education program from a primarily local program to a national program through live streaming technology. Our 2025 free public awareness seminar occurred on april 3 and was entitled "psychiatric disabilities in older adults (65 and older)." it addressed psychiatric issues related to aging, including those that may onset late in life. Video clips and a recording in its entirety are posted on youtube. We provide training on the americans with disabilities act of 1990 (ada), and on ssi and social security disability insurance (ssdi) with a focus on how the rules affect people with psychiatric, intellectual, and/or developmental…
$87,088 spent16% of program spendingGrant program: pwdf continued our pilot grant program, providing funds to other non-profit agencies to support their work for people with p/idd. This fiscal year, we renewed grants to five current grantees. We also announced a new grant round, providing an opportunity for additional organizations to apply for pwdf grants in support of programs serving people with p/idd. We received a very large number of letters of interest and invited approximately 10% of those to submit proposals. (awards to new grantees were made in fiscal year 2025-26.)
$81,468 spentof which $41,000 as grants15% of program spendingNot specified
$26 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $535,452.
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 2021 to 2022, from $954k to $1.6M (+70%).
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.
86% of PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $29 → $27.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION’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 WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114 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 WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION
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 California
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
96%
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 WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: 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 WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION?
- PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114 to it, the largest being McNabb Foundation ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,114 in grants to PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION?
- McNabb Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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