Alabama · Nonprofit
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS (Alabama) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,078,649 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($1,092,374). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $460k
What The Ordinary People Society Tops does
Mission
The ordinary people society is an innovative, faith-based non-profit. To create, build and maintain a better humanity for all.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive Services to incarcerated people and their families. Provided legal support to inmates and their families. Supportive services to the children and caretakers of the children of incarcerated individuals. Supportive services for the restoration of voting rights. Supportive services to homeless incarcerated and formally incarcerated Restoration of women's rights and advocacy, and trauma and healing support, along with Christmas and many holiday meals and drives. Support to school aged children of incarcerated homeless families by providing school supplies, shelter, food, & sanitary products, along with bonding, licensing, recovery, and national bailout money.
$487,000 spent42% of program spendingRapid and Community Response is to support those in crisis to include homelessness, homeowners with utility expenses and churches during the pandemic through supportive services and financial support while providing them with means of communication by the purchasing of phones and access to internet. Community and Rapid Response also provided supported for the purchase of medicine for the needy and assisted with funeral expenses during the pandemic for needy families. The program further extended assistance to all families that needed support for general household items, food and clothing during the pandemic. Special sub-programs were incorporated for the elderly and disabled individuals for individualized support.
$330,500 spent29% of program spendingThe Re-entry and Women's and Men's Transitional Housing Program consisted of voting and redistricting education. Along with public broadcasting support and financial literacy training. The program did a lot organizing training with clergy, community leaders, and voting rights advocats to assist with restoring rights of convicted felons within the program. The program further assisted individuals in the transitional housing program with financial support and assistance towards their supervision fees, court costs, and individual assistance to assist with getting the appropriate documentation and neccessary documentation needed to get jobs and acclimated back into society.
$322,014 spent28% of program spendingGet out to vote program with voter education. Providing resources, and nonpartison efforts to restore voter rights and voter outreach.
$15,000 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,154,514.
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 2019 to 2020, from $175k to $590k (+237%).
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 THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Rodreshia Russaw
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $62k → $1.1M.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
65% 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 THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 58% · 2019 29% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 43% — 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
42% of THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,790 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,790 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: 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 THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS?
- THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS (Alabama) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,078,649 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($1,092,374). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $6,078,649 in grants to THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS?
- NEO Philanthropy Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,092,374 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 33 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