Washington · Nonprofit
Rural Peoples Platform
Rural Peoples Platform (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,500 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $906k
- Net assets
- $434k
What Rural Peoples Platform does
Mission
The Rural Peoples Platform organizes people across rural North Central Washington around local initiatives and a long-term agenda that makes economic stability possible and sustainable for all working people and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Built fundamentals of community organizing infrastructure in North Central Washington. Supported and trained local community organizers in principles of organizing, messaging practices, and community mobilization work.
$97,344 spent40% of program spendingDeveloped research-based frameworks for rural messaging and best practices in narrative shifting; hosted events and community conversations to socialize ideas and engage residents in shared language and future vision.
$85,176 spent35% of program spendingMobilized local and regional partners to strengthen access to home weatherization resources that materially improve the conditions and safety of North Central Washington homes. Advanced community-based and topical research, led preliminary organizing activities with residents, and built alignment across local and regional partners.
$60,841 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $243,361.
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 $59k to $323k (+449%).
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.
100% of Rural Peoples Platform’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Elana Mainer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $138k → $288k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rural Peoples Voice). These are real filings, and they are not money Rural Peoples Platform raised.
From the IRS filings of Rural Peoples Platform’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
Rural Peoples Platform has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 Rural Peoples Platform.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 73% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rural Peoples Platform's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Rural Peoples Platform runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Rural Peoples Platform
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rural Peoples Voice · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rural Peoples Platform: 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 Rural Peoples Platform?
- Rural Peoples Platform (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $905,500 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rural Peoples Platform have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $905,500 in grants to Rural Peoples Platform, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rural Peoples Platform?
- WINDWARD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rural Peoples Platform find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 11 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