Oregon · Nonprofit
PERIOD INC
PERIOD INC (Oregon) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,333,390 to it, the largest being PERIOD LAW STRATEGY FUND ($400,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $503k
What Period Inc does
Mission
Period, inc. Is a global youth-fueled nonprofit organization founded in 2014 that strives to eradicate period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. Period distributes supplies, creates menstrual health curriculum, and promotes policies for systemic change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Service: period serves people in need by distributing disposable and reusable menstrual products. In 2024, period surpassed 6 million period cycles addressed with free products since our founding in 2014. Focusing on sustainability, period distributed enough reusable products to address 750,000 periods. Period distributed period products to over 100 period chapters and partner community organizations.
$532,993 spentof which $277,709 as grants49% of program spendingAdvocacy: in 2024, period served on 19 state advocacy coalitions to educate local community leaders on how to provide affordable and accessible period products. Period educated and advocated for the repeal of the tax on menstrual products throughout the u.s. And certified youth activists to be grassroots organizers in their own communities. Education: period published educational curriculum focused on period poverty in u.s. Schools to assist and train school nurses to help students in need, as well as coauthored a kids book about periods to help young people and their caregivers destigmatize periods. Continued on schedule o. Period provided media training to youth advocates, helping them be vocal leaders in their community.
$563,450 spent51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,096,443.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $511k to $744k (+46%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PERIOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Michela Bedard
Executive director
Board chair
Kirsten Brady
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $30k → $721k.
15 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PERIOD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
PERIOD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
70% 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 PERIOD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 43% · 2019 79% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — 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
22% of PERIOD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
PERIOD INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $907k 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
PERIOD INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PERIOD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $182
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 PERIOD 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PERIOD 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 PERIOD INC?
- PERIOD INC (Oregon) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,333,390 to it, the largest being PERIOD LAW STRATEGY FUND ($400,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERIOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $2,333,390 in grants to PERIOD INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERIOD INC?
- PERIOD LAW STRATEGY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERIOD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 58 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