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Alliance to End Plastic Waste Inc

See schedule osee narrative to form 990, part I, line 1, description of organization mission (per may 2024 bylaws).

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$29MCommunity Improvement$11MArts & Culture$950kInternational$680kScience & Tech$458kRecreation & Sports$429kHuman Services$342kEducation$160k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,932,244, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,957,127 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,024,883 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CGLR FOUNDATION: $342k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
NE
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $27M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$8.5M · 32% · 23 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6.9M · 26% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

Middle East and North Africa$3.9M · 15% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

South Asia$3.3M · 12% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

Sub-Saharan Africa$2.7M · 10% · 14 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

South America$1.4M · 5% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: PROJECT FUNDING

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 9 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

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

-22%
-11%

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.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CIRCULATE INITIATIVE INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $10M · revenue -68% · 87% of their budget
  • PA
    PLUG AND PLAY LLC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $9.6M
  • MR
    MYPLAS RECYCLING (MN) INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6.6M

Funded once

  • RO
    RENEW OCEANS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M · 100% of their budget
  • DI
    DELTERRA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.6M · revenue -96% · 38% of their budget
  • PP
    PLUG & PLAY LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $550k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clean Reefs
Environment
2
Plastic Oceans International

End plastic pollution by supporting local communities in the circular economy transition

Environment
3
Global Envirotech Initiative
Philanthropy
4
Oceanworks Foundation
Environment
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
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7
Current Innovation Nfp

Current's mission is to grow an inclusive blue economy, accelerate innovation, and solve persistent water challenges.

Environment
8
Clean Oceans International

Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.

Science & Tech
9
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
10
Environment Now
—
11
Clean Ocean Access Inc

Action today so future generations can enjoy ocean activities. programs: clean - eliminate marine debris; ocean - improve coastal water quality; access - protect and preserve shoreline access.

Environment
12
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delterra Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLUG AND PLAY LLC: $9,609,000 · OtherPLUG AND PLAY LLCMYPLAS RECYCLING (MN) INC: $6,584,450 · OtherMYPLAS RECYCLING (MN) INCRENEW OCEANS INC: $5,000,000 · OtherRENEW OCEANS INCFIRSTAR FIBER INC: $1,350,000 · OtherLITTERATI LLC: $950,000 · Other+9 more: $2,343,694 · Other+9 moreCIRCULATE INITIATIVE INC: $10,000,001 · EnvironmentCIRCULATE INITIATIVE INCTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,680,000 · EnvironmentTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INCDELTERRA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,636,500 · EnvironmentDELTERRA INTERNATIONAL INCDELTERRA INC: $1,632,500 · EnvironmentDELTERRA INC+2 more: $65,000 · EnvironmentCGLR FOUNDATION: $342,000 · Human ServicesPYXERA GLOBAL INC: $70,300 · International
Other$25,837,144Environment$17,014,001Human Services$342,000International$70,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIRCULATE INITIATIVE INC: $10,000,001 over 4y, 87% of budgetRENEW OCEANS INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,680,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetDELTERRA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,636,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetDELTERRA INC: $1,632,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCGLR FOUNDATION: $342,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPYXERA GLOBAL INC: $70,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGulf of Alaska Keeper Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CIRCULATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds RENEW OCEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds DELTERRA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DELTERRA INC ↗
  • Who funds CGLR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PYXERA GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Gulf of Alaska Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliance to End Plastic Waste Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance to End Plastic Waste Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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