Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The People's Academy Inc
The People's Academy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,200 to it, the largest being Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ($29,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $4k
What The People's Academy Inc does
Mission
To provide people with training to use copper in building and other facilities with emphasis on adolesence career a skill
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Milton JobSix persons benefited Copper sidings
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $17k to $2k (−91%).
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 People's Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of The People's Academy 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
The People's Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 The People's Academy Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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's Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 919 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 919 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Government funding The People's Academy Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $865k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$865k
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's Academy 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 People's Academy 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 The People's Academy Inc?
- The People's Academy Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,200 to it, the largest being Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ($29,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The People's Academy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,200 in grants to The People's Academy Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The People's Academy Inc?
- Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office is the largest funder on record, with $29,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The People's Academy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 3 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