Texas · Private foundation
The Planetary Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $469k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Planetary Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $469k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $494k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $460k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $444k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $433k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $337k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $360k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $717,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $708,700 | 8 | 0% |
| The Biomimicry Institute | $255,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Globe Aware | $151,840 | 7 | 6% |
| Hockaday School | $72,100 | 7 | 0% |
| The Dallas Opera | $64,650 | 8 | 0% |
| Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc | $52,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Center for the Arts | $47,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Center for the Arts | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Solar Energy Society Inc | $35,750 | 2 | 9% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($817k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Planetary Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dea Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · The Dallas Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Patagoniaorg · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Planetary Trust
- How much does The Planetary Trust give?
- The Planetary Trust reported 20 grants totaling $469,484 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Planetary Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Education (31%), Science & Tech (8%).
- Who are The Planetary Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Methodist University ($717k), Rocky Mountain Institute ($709k), The Biomimicry Institute ($255k).
- Does The Planetary Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Planetary Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Planetary Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dea Family Foundation, Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is The Planetary Trust based?
- The Planetary Trust is based in TX.
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