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Plant the Future at a glance

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Plant the Future

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$15kEnvironment$14kRecreation & Sports$8kHealth$5kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$3kHuman Services$700Employment$43
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$750
Median grant
5
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thanksgiving Point Institute$10,000
Access Fund$8,635
American Alpine Club$5,221
American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education$4,969
The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation$4,961
KUER NPR Utah University of Utah$4,872
Tracy Aviary$3,000
Southern California Junior Golfer Association$750
Mountain Trails Foundation$700
American Alpine Club$600
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium$130
Southern Nevada Junior Golf Association$104
Utah PGA Junior Golf Foundation$78
International Mountain Bicycling Association$55
Opportunity Village$43
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Foundation Assisting Seniors and Veterans: $700 → 13%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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21k · 3 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$21k
$700

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    THE ACCESS FUND
    2× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +17%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue -31%
  • MT
    MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • FA
    Foundation Assisting Seniors Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $700 · revenue +22%
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.

Recreation & Sports
4
Arizona Trail Association

To coordinate the planning, development, and promotion of the arizona trail for recreational and educational experiences of nonmotorized trail users.

Public Benefit
5
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
6
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
7
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
8
American Association of Avalanche Professionals

The american avalanche association promotes professional excellence in avalanche safety, education, and research in the united states.

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9
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
10
Land Trust Accreditation Commission

The mission of the land trust accreditation commission is to inspire excellence, promote public trust and ensure permanence in the conservation of open lands by recognizing land trust organizations that meet rigorous quality standards and…

Environment
11
Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…

Environment
12
United States Golf Association

The united states golf association champions and advances the game of golf. it serves millions of golfers and thousands of golf courses both within the united states and around the world through programs and services that promote a…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Alpine Club; the most unlike its peers is Opportunity Village. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ACCESS FUND: $13,812 · OtherTHE ACCESS FUNDTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB: $6,321 · OtherTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUBKUER NPR Utah University of Utah: $4,872 · OtherKUER NPR Utah University of Utah+5 more: $1,056 · OtherTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTI…MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,050 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATI…AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $4,969 · EducationAMERICAN IN…Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation: $4,961 · HealthSociety of …FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $3,000 · AnimalsFoundation Assisting Seniors Inc: $700 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $104 · Youth Development
Other$26,061Environment$11,050Education$4,969Health$4,961Animals$3,000Human Services$700Youth Development$104

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $13,812 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB: $6,321 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $4,969 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation Assisting Seniors Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $43 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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Plant the Future funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plant the Future. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Plant the Future?

    Find your warmest path to Plant the Future 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 15 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-PF 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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