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The People’s Poetry Gathering is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with grants to both
City Lore and Bowery Arts and Science, the New York Council for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Scottish Arts Council, the British Council,  Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Welsh Assembly Government, and Wales Arts International.  Operating support for City Lore is provided by the
Lily Auchincloss Foundation and The Scherman Foundation. The People's Poetry Gathering was co-founded by
Poets House and City Lore in 1999 and co-produced in 1999, 2001, and 2003.