California · Nonprofit
THE PEOPLE CONCERN
THE PEOPLE CONCERN (California) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,021,510 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($6,742,995). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117M
- Funders on record
- 227
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $55M
What The People Concern does
Mission
The People Concern believes no one should have to live on the street or in an abusive household. Our staff, volunteers, and those we serve work together to address the effects of homelessness, poverty, mental and physical illness, abuse, and addiction. Our programs empower the most vulnerable among us to improve their quality of life - housed, healthy, and safe - and become active participants in the community. We also work to educate the broader community and improve public policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interim housing: our interim housing and wellness program is designed to shelter, support, and provide a sense of community to temporarily housed participants who are transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing. The 14 interim housing facilities (totaling 700 beds) provide beds, 3 meals per day plus snacks, case management services, and periodic medical services to chronically homeless individuals and those who often experience the effects associated with substance abuse as well as mental health challenges. During fy 2024-2025, 1,630 people were served and 304 people were moved into permanent housing.housing services: operating under a housing first model, our staff work with program participants to move them indoors as quickly as possible. We work with numerous housing development companies to provide the services tenants need to help them stay in their homes. In fy 2024-2025, the total number of individuals that moved into housing was 1,919 increasing the total number housed since 2018 to 10,128.permanent housing: The People Concern's permanent supportive housing program provides regular, ongoing, individualized support to help our clients find long-term stability,…
$65,390,280 spentof which $8,231,327 as grants$2,623,853 earned by the program64% of program spendingOutreach: The People Concern operates 23 outreach teams across los angeles county. The agency is the outreach lead in spa 4 (downtown la, skid row, hollywood) and runs access centers in both santa monica and skid row. Each brings integrated, multidisciplinary services to people in need where they are. In fy 2024-2025, 78,469 outreach services were provided and 4,213 clients were served.
$15,445,397 spentof which $2,403,715 as grants15% of program spendingMental health: the agency integrates mental health care within all of our services and programs and operates a standalone mental health center in downtown los angeles. As a los angeles county full service partnership programs (fsp) provider, we offer those with severe mental illnesses a highly integrated, recovery-oriented, "whatever it takes" approach to wellness that ideally ends with permanent housing. During fy 2024-2025, 2,133 clients were served by mental health professionals, with 52,946 mental health services provided and 3,475 medication services provided.
$14,746,535 spentof which $888,773 as grants14% of program spendingDomestic violence: sojourn has been providing vital, life-saving services for survivors of domestic violence since 1977. Having sojourn as part of The People Concern allows us to continue addressing the intersectionality of domestic violence and homelessness. During fy 2024-2025, 3,156 hotline calls were received, 2,890 people were trained via community outreach and education, 540 attended support groups, 98 individuals received legal services, 138 shelter clients were served, and 24 individuals received domestic violence training.wellness & access center: the annenberg access center in santa monica provides a full range of essential services on-site including meals, clothing, mail and phone service, case management, mental health counseling, benefits assistance, and walk-in care at the center's medical suite. For fy 2024-2025, 48,257 lunches were distributed, 298 clients enrolled in our grocery program, 12,274 showers were provided, 6,957 clients accessed mail services, 1,439 clients used lockers, and there were 1,070 medical care services provided. The ron beasley wellness center is the only facility on skid row that offers walk-in group therapy and focuses solely on behavioral…
$7,290,470 spentof which $490,768 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,872,682.
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 2022 to 2023, from $82M to $117M (+42%).
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: 2017 66% · 2018 59% · 2020 85% · 2021 84% · 2022 83% · 2023 85% · 2024 88% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE PEOPLE CONCERN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
John J Maceri
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Sarah Knauer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 65 funders to 107 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.9M.
25 of 227 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $12M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PEOPLE CONCERN raised.
From the IRS filings of THE PEOPLE CONCERN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 227 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 PEOPLE CONCERN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
27% 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 PEOPLE CONCERN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 42% · 2021 35% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% — 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
44% of THE PEOPLE CONCERN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
86% of THE PEOPLE CONCERN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 PEOPLE CONCERN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE PEOPLE CONCERN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$679k
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$23k
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 THE PEOPLE CONCERN
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- People Co LLC · disregarded
- Tpc Homes · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PEOPLE CONCERN: 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 PEOPLE CONCERN?
- THE PEOPLE CONCERN (California) receives grants from 227 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,021,510 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($6,742,995). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PEOPLE CONCERN have?
- IRS filings report 227 organizations giving $35,021,510 in grants to THE PEOPLE CONCERN, 141 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PEOPLE CONCERN?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,742,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PEOPLE CONCERN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 227 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