Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,232,819

Total expenses

$1,657,713

Contributions and grants received

$2,175,417

Grants paid

$237,500

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$57,402

Total assets, end of year

$4,583,971

Total liabilities, end of year

$899,374

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,684,597

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,591,226

Management and general expenses

$49,391

Fundraising expenses

$17,096

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,591,226

Program services were 96.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• On July 30 , 2024, we received $300,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund through their Rural Action Fund to WTPAF for general operating support. We The People Action Fund is an organization that works to build and strengthen multi-racial, working-class community organizing infrastructure across Michigan in order to build shared vision for our state and contest for progressive governing power.We The People Action Fund (WTPAF) and its sister 501c3 organization We The People MI (WTPMI) launched in the summer of 2017, focusing first on building deep relationships in a wide range of rural, urban, and suburban communities across the state, from the Keweenaw Peninsula to the city of Detroit. We are focused on 1) building rigorous, disciplined, organizing capacity in communities across the state, 2) developing a strong proactive narrative and peoples agenda rooted in communities, and 3) uniting Michiganders across identities and geographies and engaging people to build collectively toward economic and racial justice. Our long-term goal is to build a robust organized base of multi-racial working class people that recognize a linked fate across many communities in Michigan and advance a statewide strategy to contend for governing power in Michigan. On October 10 , 2024, we received $250,000 from the Initia Foundation to WTPAF for general operating support. We The People Action Fund is an organization that works to build and strengthen multi-racial, working-class community organizing infrastructure across Michigan in order to build shared vision for our state and contest for progressive governing power. We The People Action Fund (WTPAF) and its sister 501c3 organization We The People MI (WTPMI) launched in the summer of 2017, focusing first on building deep relationships in a wide range of rural, urban, and suburban communities across the state, from the Keweenaw Peninsula to the city of Detroit. We are focused on 1) building rigorous, disciplined, organizing capacity in communities across the state, 2) developing a strong proactive narrative and peoples agenda rooted in communities, and 3) uniting Michiganders across identities and geographies and engaging people to build collectively toward economic and and racial justice. Our long-term goal is to build a robust organized base of multi-racial working class people that recognize a linked fate across many communities in Michigan and advance a statewide strategy to contend for governing power in Michigan. On December 4 , 2024, we received $200,000 from the Our American Future Action Fund to WTPAF for social welfare activity within the meaning of Section 501(c)(4) of the Code.

  Expenses $1,591,226

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Sixteen Thirty Fund

  $475,000

  Program Support

• Intatai Foundation

  $250,000

• Tides Advocacy

  $225,000

  Program support

• Climate Equity Action Fund

  $200,000

  Program Support

• WDN Action

  $200,000

  Program support

• Airlift

  $16,000

  Program support

• Allied Media Projects

  $10,000

  Program Support

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• We the People Michigan

  501c4 · Training on racial economic · MI

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

15 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202503199349301800

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