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ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC
See schedule oto help end plastic waste and pollution, the alliance to end plastic waste's ("aepw") purpose is to lead the creation of a circular economy for plastic through a series of transformative interventions, including some or all, but not limited to, the following: (1) developing, deploying, de-risking and supporting solutions…
$29M
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
7
Communities
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
environmentaloceansouth
2020
environmentalsouth
2021
environmentalsouthenvironment
2022
gulfrecycleenvironmentalsouth
2023
recycleglobal
2024
togetherregion's
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$258,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MYPLAS RECYCLING (MN) INC$500,000
- DELTERRA INC$490,000
- CGLR FOUNDATION$342,000
- OPT USA INC$258,000
- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$160,000
- REPURPOSE GLOBAL INC$130,000
- GDB CIRCULAR (MN) INC$37,244
- BUFFALO BAYOU PARTNERSHIP INC$15,000
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$35M · 9 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
8
Total granted
$35M
$7.7M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+31%
-61%
Still filing today
33%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CIRCULATE INITIATIVE4× · 2019–2022 · $10M · revenue -70% · 87% of their budget
- PAPLUG AND PLAY LLC4× · 2019–2022 · $9.6M
- MRMYPLAS RECYCLING (MN) INC3× · 2022–2024 · $6.6M
Funded once
- RORENEW OCEANSone grant, 2019 · $5.0M · 100% of their budget
- MIMCKINSEYORG INCone grant, 2021 · $1.6M · revenue -82% · 38% of their budget
- PPPLUG & PLAY LLCone grant, 2023 · $550k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Current Innovation Nfp
Current's mission is to grow a circular blue economy, accelerate innovation, and solve persistent water challenges.
Environment
2
Plastic Oceans International
End plastic pollution by supporting local communities in the circular economy transition
Environment
3
Ocean Alliance Inc
Scientific Research on marine mammals and education
Environment
4
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action
Everything we do is designed to protect at least 30 percent of the ocean by 2030
Environment
5
Oceana Inc
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Environment
6
Ocean Conservancy
Ocean conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today's greatest global challenges. together, we create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.
Environment
7
Clean Oceans International
Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.
Science & Tech
8
Clean Ocean Access Inc
Action today so future generations can enjoy ocean activities
Environment
9
Global Envirotech Initiative
Philanthropy
10
Global Exchange
Supporting democracy peace and environmental sustainability around the world.
International
11
Only One Inc
Harness the power of collective action to rebuild ocean life in this generation, for people and the planet.
Environment
12
Container Recycling Institute
To make north america a global model for the collection and quality recycling of packaging materials.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delterra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delterra International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$25,837,144Environment$17,014,001Human Services$342,000International$70,300
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RENEW OCEANS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 832435458 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RENEW OCEANS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Alliance to End Plastic Waste Inc?
Find your warmest path to Alliance to End Plastic Waste Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines