Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY
THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,382 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($303,580). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $990k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $787k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The People's Pantry does
Mission
Distributing food to those in need residing in southern berkshire county, ma.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1999 The People's Pantry has served the south berkshire community, welcoming all who visit us without requiring proof of income or status. In 2025 The People's Pantry served an average of 660 people per week from 242 households. We are a volunteer led organization striving to make all feel welcome.
$620,455 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $620,455.
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 2024 to 2025, from $170k to $1.3M (+648%).
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: 2020 0% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 20 funders, grant income rose $0 → $278k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 PEOPLE'S PANTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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'S PANTRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% 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
64% 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'S PANTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 58% — 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
56% of THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY'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 $297k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $491k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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'S PANTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY
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.
Where the money goes
93% 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 PEOPLE'S PANTRY: 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 PANTRY?
- THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $787,382 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($303,580). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $787,382 in grants to THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY?
- BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $303,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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