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Plan International USA Inc

Plan International USA is a global international development and humanitarian organization that advances children's rights and equality for girls.

$23M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$309MEducation$1.4MScience & Tech$317kArts & Culture$225kYouth Development$187kPublic Benefit$99kSocial Science$27k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
  • $250k+1 grant · $23M
$123,223
Median grant
3
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Plan International Inc$23,088,881
Alice International Inc$123,223
Georgetown University$31,119
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%School to School Intrnatl: $392k → 7%Internews Network: $79k → 18%Sesame Workshop: $131k → 17%Georgetown University: $130k → 14%Field Ready Inc: $99k → 14%IMPL Project: $82k → 7%Three Stones Int'l LLC: $27k → 10%Novametrics LLC: $142k → 8%Alice International Inc: $123k → 7%School to School Intrnatl: $345k → 7%Internews Network: $25k → 18%Sesame Workshop: $94k → 17%Georgetown University: $55k → 14%IMPL Project: $29k → 7%Alice International Inc: $102k → 7%School to School Intrnatl: $292k → 7%Plan International Inc: $43.7M → 17%Georgetown University: $42k → 14%School to School Intrnatl: $37k → 7%Plan International Inc: $36.9M → 17%Georgetown University: $40k → 14%Plan International Inc: $36.4M → 17%Georgetown University: $31k → 14%Plan International Inc: $34.3M → 17%Results for Development Inst Inc: $108k → 14%Plan International Inc: $34.3M → 17%Results for Development Institute Inc: $11k → 14%Plan International Inc: $33.7M → 17%Friends of Publish What You Fund: $25k → 14%Plan International Inc: $33.4M → 17%Equal Access International Inc: $146k → 14%Plan International Inc: $33.0M → 17%Equal Access International: $76k → 14%Plan International Inc: $23.1M → 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

VT
NH
IL
NY
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311M · 9 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -43% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$311M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-43%

Still filing today

89%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $309M · revenue +26%
  • SI
    SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $298k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $175k
  • NL
    Novametrics LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $142k
  • EA
    Equal Access International
    one grant, 2021 · $76k · revenue -43%
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
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
2
Effective Institutions Project Inc

To seek out and incubate high-impact strategies to improve institutional decision-making around the world.

Public Benefit
3
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
4
Global Financial Integrity

Global Financial Integrity works to curtail illicit financial flows by conducting groundbreaking research, promoting pragmatic policy solutions, and advising governments.

International
5
Engineers Without Borders- International

EWB International seeks to promote collaboration of the global EWB movement. Together we work towards a sustainable world, where engineering enables long-term positive social and economic development, for the benefit of people and the…

International
6
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
7
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
8
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
9
Society for International Development Sid

Education and scientific contribution to development issues. More specifically to: (a)Encourage, support and facilitate the creation at the local, national, regional and international level of a sense of community amongst individuals and…

International
10
Institute for Eastwest Studies Inc

Eastwest institute (ewi) works to reduce international conflict, addressing seemingly intractable problems that threaten world security and stability. (continued on schedule o)

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11
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
12
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Results for Development Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $308,789,782 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL INC+2 more: $229,900 · InternationalSCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL: $1,065,805 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $297,987 · EducationAlice International Inc: $225,002 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $175,094 · OtherNovametrics LLC: $142,257 · OtherThree Stones International: $26,990 · OtherSESAME WORKSHOP: $225,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNEWS NETWORK: $103,690 · Arts & CultureFIELD READY INC: $245,271 · Public BenefitEqual Access International: $75,873 · HealthFRIENDS OF PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND: $25,000 · Philanthropy
International$309,019,682Education$1,363,792Other$569,343Arts & Culture$328,690Public Benefit$245,271Health$75,873Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $308,789,782 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetSCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL: $1,065,805 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $297,987 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD READY INC: $245,271 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $119,054 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMPL Project: $110,846 over 2y, 26% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK: $103,690 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Access International: $75,873 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% 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 PLAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FIELD READY INC ↗
  • Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPL Project ↗
  • Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Equal Access International ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Family Health International IncNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Family Health International Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Plan International USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plan International USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    3report 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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