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Planet Aid Inc

Protect the environment, reduce waste, and increase the efficient use of vital resources.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$100kEnvironment$75kHousing & Shelter$50kYouth Development$25kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,683,273 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,608,273 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE$25,000
VEHICLES FOR CHANGE$25,000
LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $25k → 11%LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $25k → 11%LAUREL ADVOCACY AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $25k → 11%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $238k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$213k · 90% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: DEVELOPMENTAL AID

South America$25k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: DEVELOPMENTAL AID

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 3 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$225k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthOther
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

  • VF
    VEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue -34%
  • LA
    LAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -34%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +59%
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
04the grantee network

6 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INCLAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INCTHE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Public BenefitTHE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTENORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNORRIS SQU…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,680 · Health
Human Services$150,000Public Benefit$75,000Community Improvement$25,000International$10,000Health$6,680

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLAUREL ADVOCACY & REFERRAL SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,680 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Planet Aid Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Planet Aid Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Vehicles for Change Inc: 16% of 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)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 6 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $251k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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