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Planet Women

To partner with women to care for the forest, waters, and communities essential to mitigating climate change while preparing women to lead; and to help environmental conservation oganizations to become more diverse and welcoming.

$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$554kPhilanthropy$177kAnimals$155kEducation$117kCrime & Legal$102kCivil Rights$45kArts & Culture$22kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $223,946 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,946 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$711k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY$45,000
LEGADO INITIATIVEPO BOX 173 JACKSON NH 03846$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $45k → 11%SONORAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 15%CULTURAL SURVIVAL: $55k → 8%INTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: $7k → 10%WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE: $35k → 10%CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS: $50k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $5k → 12%THE CHAPTER HOUSE: $13k → 14%RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 10%VITAL VOICES: $7k → 14%ECOTRUST: $10k → 12%CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS: $40k → 13%KULA PROJECT INC: $10k → 8%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $25k → 13%NATIVE AMERICAN FISH & WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10k → 6%WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $50k → 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30k → 7%WASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU: $10k → 13%ONE TREE PLANTED: $152k → 10%LEGADO INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $40k → 11%SONORAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 15%CULTURAL SURVIVAL: $47k → 8%WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE: $25k → 10%CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS: $25k → 10%THE CHAPTER HOUSE: $9k → 14%RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $11k → 10%KULA PROJECT INC: $10k → 8%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $10k → 13%WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $30k → 6%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15k → 7%ONE TREE PLANTED: $25k → 10%LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $25k → 11%SAN XAVIER DISTRICT OF TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION: $5k → 15%CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS: $2k → 10%DIG DEEP ORG: $3k → 14%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $24k → 6%LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MA
OR
NV
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $92k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $20k to organizations and $72k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$72k · 78% · 24 people

Stated purpose: CENTER FOR GENDER, EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENT(CGEE) SEED GRANTS

El Salvador$15k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT IN-PERSON MEETING OF RED MEC LAC AT COP 16 OF BIODIVERSITY, HELD IN COLOMBIA

North America (Canada and Mexico)$5k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS TO SCALE UP CLIMATE ACTION INITIATIVES WITH YOUTH LEADERS

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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Planet Women’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Planet Womenlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.0M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • LI
    LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +24%
  • REWILD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $110k · revenue +18%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $104k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CE
    CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +31% · 30% of their budget
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • NA
    Native American Fish & Wildlife Societygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
2
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
5
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
6
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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8
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
9
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
10
Environment Now
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11
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
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12
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rainforest Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Forever Our Rivers Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $104,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN FOR CONSERVATIONMULTIPLIER: $76,545 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIEREarth Island Institute Inc: $60,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncLEGADO INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentLEGADO INCRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $26,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIPKula Project Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentKula Project IncCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUND…+2 more: $9,250 · EnvironmentLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $130,000 · EducationLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF …THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE…ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $177,000 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED IN…Forever Our Rivers Foundation: $24,000 · PhilanthropyForever Our Rivers …REWILD: $110,000 · AnimalsREWILDNative American Fish & Wildlife Society: $10,000 · AnimalsNative Ameri…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WIL…MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $45,000 · OtherDian Fossey …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $44,500 · OtherTHE NATURE C…ECOTRUST: $10,000 · OtherECOTRUSTSAN XAVIER DISTRICT OF THE: $5,000 · OtherTHE CHAPTER HOUSE: $21,763 · OtherTHE CHAPTER …WASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU: $10,000 · OtherWASHIW ZULSH…CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $101,500 · Civil RightsCULTURAL …CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $40,000 · InternationalVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $6,500 · International
Environment$345,795Education$230,000Philanthropy$201,000Animals$135,000Other$136,263Civil Rights$101,500International$46,500

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 budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $177,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREWILD: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $104,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $101,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $76,545 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $44,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLEGADO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $26,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetForever Our Rivers Foundation: $24,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE CHAPTER HOUSE: $21,763 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetKula Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Fish & Wildlife Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHIW ZULSHISH GOOM TAHN NU: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetINTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: $6,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $2,500 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Planet Women funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Planet Women. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Planet Women?

Find your warmest path to Planet Women through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home