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PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC

PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,520,595 to it, the largest being FARMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,133,620). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
79
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$14M
52/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What People Working Cooperatively Inc does

Mission

People working cooperatively performs critical home repairs and services so that low-income homeowners can remain in their homes living independently and healthier in a safe, sound environment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Weatherization programs: energy conservation services-weatherization, furnace cleaning, tuning and replacement.

    $2,918,556 spent
    43% of program spending

  2. Home repair programs: major home repair-including essential repairs to roof, electrical systems, plumbing for low income homeowners.

    $3,425,765 spent$117,449 earned by the program
    51% of program spending

  3. Volunteer services:provide home maintenance as well as home repairs.

    $434,619 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,778,940.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2018 Revenue 104 ($8.1M) Expenses 105 ($8.0M) Net assets 98 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 97 ($7.6M) Expenses 103 ($7.8M) Net assets 97 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 119 ($9.3M) Expenses 109 ($8.3M) Net assets 121 ($5.6M)2021 Revenue 120 ($9.4M) Expenses 125 ($9.5M) Net assets 122 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 186 ($14M) Expenses 154 ($12M) Net assets 168 ($7.8M)2023 Revenue 126 ($9.8M) Expenses 149 ($11M) Net assets 142 ($6.6M)2024 Revenue 244 ($19M) Expenses 184 ($14M) Net assets 257 ($12M)2025 Revenue 133 ($10M) Expenses 111 ($8.4M) Net assets 301 ($14M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (111)Net assets (301)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $23M (+46%).

$7.5M
$6.9M
$7.5M
$8.0M
$8.4M
$12M
$9.8M
$16M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 60% · 2018 69% · 2019 63% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2022 56% · 2023 70% · 2024 83% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 881 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$214k
’17
$110k
’18
−$238k
’19
$1.0M
’20
−$90k
’21
$2.8M
’22
−$1.4M
’23
$5.1M
’24
$1.9M
’25
8.0
months of
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

Jock Pitts

President/CEO

Board chair

Matthew Buddenberg

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232526252425242521
Joined·+3+2+1+0+2+2+2+0
No longer listed·11211314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $413k → $1.3M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
CareSource Ohio Incunclassified
$1.3M
Impact 100 Incunclassified
$100k
funders
14
11
18
27
33
37
35
35
17
1

15 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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 WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

41% 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 WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC.

27%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 17% · 2022 50% · 2023 31% — growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
KY
VA
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve8.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.

Federal$1.0M
grants $1.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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.

Organizations like PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY 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 Ohio

People Working Cooperatively of the Midwest Inc95%Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of America Inc79%Patchworks House Inc79%Community Action Commission of Erie Huron & Richland Counties Inc79%Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission78%Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy78%Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative78%Licking-Knox Goodwill Industries Inc78%

Nationally

People Working Cooperatively of the Midwest Inc95%The People Who Care Project84%Project Houseworks84%Good Works Inc83%Project Community Connections Inc82%Chwc Inc82%People Incorporated of Virginia82%P2 Collaborative of Wny Inc82%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • People Working Cooperatively Inc of the Midwest · exempt
  • Dayton Fund for Home Rehabilitation · exempt
  • People Working Cooperatively Inc of the Southeast · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC?
PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,520,595 to it, the largest being FARMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,133,620). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $11,520,595 in grants to PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC?
FARMER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,133,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 79 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