Montana · Nonprofit
THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Montana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,552,121 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What The Peoples Partners for Community Development does
Mission
Ppcds mission is to provide financial opportunities to stimulate economic development on the northern cheyenne indian reservation by promoting self-sufficiency, self-determination and an enhanced quality of life for the reservation communities
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Savings incentives to individuals to promote fiscal responsibility (afi)
$1,931,217 spent75% of program spendingProvided financial litercy classes and promoted other community financial activities (first nations, naca, native cdfi network, nwaf, sted)
$437,743 spent17% of program spendingTo help native americans start a business (mt indian youth business)
$205,997 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,574,957.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $5.0M (+81%).
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 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 34% · 2020 61% · 2021 8% · 2022 42% · 2023 18% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% 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
Sharon Small
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $148k → $372k.
2 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 97% · 2019 93% · 2020 71% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 51% — 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
38% of THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
58% of THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $961k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$961k
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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: 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 PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Montana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,552,121 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,552,121 in grants to THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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