California · Nonprofit
BLUE PLANET UNITED
BLUE PLANET UNITED (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE GILLESPIE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- EcoTrustshared funders
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio match
- Planet Womenportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of BLUE PLANET UNITED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLUE PLANET UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BLUE PLANET UNITED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- EcoTrustshared fundersMN · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Planet Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prospect Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Marie Field Family Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philip Lee & Elizabeth B Ellis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samta Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado State University Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johanette Wallerstein Institute 5607-00-43portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lippincott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillsborough Garden Club Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BLUE PLANET UNITED
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE PLANET UNITED: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE PLANET UNITED?
- BLUE PLANET UNITED (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE GILLESPIE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE PLANET UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to BLUE PLANET UNITED.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE PLANET UNITED?
- THE GILLESPIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE PLANET UNITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing