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Planet Home Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

92% of Planet Home Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Planet Home Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $250k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
12
’18
11
’19
2
’20
16
’21
4
’22
3
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$915kEnvironment$580kPhilanthropy$235kFood & Nutrition$105kHealth$45kArts & Culture$40kSocial Science$20kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $245k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH$20,000
BIG BLUE & YOU INC$20,000
KISS THE GROUND$20,000
COLLECTIVE FOOD WORKS INC$20,000
EARTHJUSTICE$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP$20,000
THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT - DBA CHEZ PANISSE F$20,000
LONG NOW FOUNDATION$15,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
350ORG$10,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$10,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC$10,000
THE 5 GYRES INSTITUTE$10,000
THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SQUAW VALLEY INSTITUTE: $20k → 6%AS YOU SOW: $5k → 9%AMAZON WATCH: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO PARKS TRUST: $10k → 10%THE 5 GYRES INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%COLLECTIVE FOOD WORKS INC: $20k → 13%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25k → 17%350ORG: $10k → 20%CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY: $25k → 14%BIG BLUE & YOU INC: $5k → 15%LAND INSTITUTE: $10k → 13%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10k → 12%AS YOU SOW: $5k → 9%THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT - DBA CHEZ PANISSE F: $20k → 10%URBAN VISION ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%THE 5 GYRES INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE: $20k → 13%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY: $20k → 14%BIG BLUE & YOU INC: $20k → 15%CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 10%PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%THE 5 GYRES INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY: $20k → 14%CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: $20k → 10%PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $20k → 14%SAVE THE BAY: $10k → 10%BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $25k → 14%GRID ALTERNATIVES: $20k → 10%LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $10k → 14%GRID ALTERNATIVES: $20k → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $25k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $25k → 14%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $25k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $10k → 14%GRID ALTERNATIVES: $10k → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $20k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%AS YOU SOW: $10k → 10%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%AS YOU SOW: $10k → 10%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $235k → 10%SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
KS
DC
FL

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 — 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$580k · 12 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$580k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+123%

Still filing today

92%
67%

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
EnvironmentFood & NutritionScience & TechAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    7× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +114%
  • T5
    The 5 Gyres Institute
    4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • SP
    Solutions Project Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +395%
  • SV
    SQUAW VALLEY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • BF
    BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k

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
Environment Now
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2
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
9
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
10
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Environmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%83%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,950

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $900,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR U…+1 more — $15,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $100,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKIN…EARTHJUSTICE — $90,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DE…350ORG — $30,000 · Environment350ORGSolutions Project Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project In…The Pachamama Alliance — $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Allian…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $20,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENS…+4 more — $40,000 · Environment+4 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $235,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED…AS YOU SOW — $55,000 · OtherAS YOU SOWGRID ALTERNATIVES — $55,000 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIV…The 5 Gyres Institute — $40,000 · OtherThe 5 Gyres Ins…SQUAW VALLEY INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherSQUAW VALLEY IN…BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherBUCKMINSTER FUL…THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT - DBA CHEZ PANISSE F — $20,000 · OtherTHE EDIBLE SCHO…SAN FRANCISCO PARKS TRUST — $10,000 · OtherThe Land Institute — $10,000 · OtherTHE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE — $10,000 · OtherCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $10,000 · OtherCenter for Food Safety — $65,000 · Food & NutritionKISS THE GROUND — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCOLLECTIVE FOOD WORKS INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for Environmental Health — $45,000 · HealthBIG BLUE & YOU INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Education$915,000Environment$360,000Philanthropy$235,000Other$270,000Food & Nutrition$105,000Health$45,000Youth Development$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $900,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $235,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $100,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Food Safety — $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $55,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute — $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BLUE & YOU INC — $25,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSQUAW VALLEY INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Bay — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…ImpactassetsincThe Schmidt Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Marin Community FoundationCA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Planet Home Charitable Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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