People Places Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540959274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Staunton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5408858841
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Foster Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,041,908
- Expenses
- $6,198,995
- Assets
- $8,107,998
- Liabilities
- $980,928
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINA BOSSERMAN (REGIONAL DIR): $128,593 total reported compensation
- LAURA FLINT (EXECUTIVE DI): $125,544 total reported compensation
- HOLLY EDWARDS (DIRECTOR OF): $108,642 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to foster resilience in children & families so they can thrive.
What it reported doing in 2025
Foster care and case management - provides a community based home-like atmosphere for wards of the state, as opposed to institutionalizing those entrusted by social service agencies and court systems for care and treatment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.