Illinois · Nonprofit
The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc
The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,047 to it, the largest being The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Freedom Together Foundationshared funders
- Acclivus Incportfolio match
- Bvm Capacity Building Institute Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $2k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Poor Peoples Campaign 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 Poor Peoples Campaign Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
92% 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 Poor Peoples Campaign Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 35% · 2019 91% · 2020 48% · 2021 28% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — 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
8% of The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
68% of The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc'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 $98k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 366 organizations that share them.
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Acclivus Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bvm Capacity Building Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Voters Matter Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Count Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith in Public Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Organizing Project Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Economy Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Praxis Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deatley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Global Justice Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Poor Peoples Campaign 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc?
- The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,047 to it, the largest being The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $306,047 in grants to The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc?
- The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing