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PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC

PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,305,425 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,510,837). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$1.2M
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Plywood People Inc does

Mission

Plywood people is a non-profit in atlanta leading a community of start-ups doing good. We exist to help our community make problems go away that impact our culture, the hurting, and the poor.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Plywood place offers individual and community spaces through its program where business ideas and cultural challenges are traded and shaped.

    $506,052 spent$369,150 earned by the program
    43% of program spending
  2. Plywood process offers problem solving through path, a six week course, one-on-one and group mentoring through foundation, a three week learning experience, consistent community feedback, and mentorship through layers events and talks, such as plywood presents and the bleacher series.

    $343,399 spent$66,676 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Plywood projects consists of podcasts, books, tours, and research.

    $321,060 spent$309,250 earned by the program
    27% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,170,511.

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 ($933k) Expenses 100 ($676k) Net assets 100 ($241k)2018 Revenue 94 ($877k) Expenses 129 ($874k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.1M) Expenses 118 ($798k) Net assets 246 ($592k)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.1M) Expenses 159 ($1.1M) Net assets 833 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 183 ($1.2M) Net assets 803 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 146 ($1.4M) Expenses 230 ($1.6M) Net assets 692 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 221 ($1.5M) Net assets 564 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 131 ($1.2M) Expenses 211 ($1.4M) Net assets 489 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 158 ($1.5M) Expenses 216 ($1.5M) Net assets 503 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (216)Net assets (503)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $2.6M (+153%).

$243k
$0
$1.0M
$2.6M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.1M
$1.7M
$1.6M
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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

42% of PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$257k
’17
$3k
’18
$332k
’19
−$15k
’20
$894
’21
−$199k
’22
−$307k
’23
−$199k
’24
$15k
’25
2.4
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

Jeff Shinabarger

Executive director

Board chair

Rick Mercer

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141414161515151414
Joined·+0+1+5+3+2+1+2+3
No longer listed·01342133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $194k → $283k.

10 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 PLYWOOD PEOPLE 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

PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC.

66%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 56% · 2021 95% · 2022 43% · 2023 54% — 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

50% of PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

90% of PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $239k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 6 states.

MN
UT
DE
TN
AL
GA

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC's revenue grew 58% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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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 12%Fundraising 8%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC?
PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,305,425 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,510,837). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,305,425 in grants to PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,510,837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLYWOOD PEOPLE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 17 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