California · Nonprofit
Buy-In Community Planning Inc
Buy-In Community Planning Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,962 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($108,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $383k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Buy-In Community Planning Inc does
Mission
The mission of Buy-In Community Planning is to support the well-being of people whose homes and communities are threatened by natural hazards by assisting them in planning for and relocating to safer areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Research: Buy-In provides thought leadership and conducts research on domestic climate migration and buyouts. This research is provided in the Buy-In Library and in blog articles and op-eds for public education. Persons Benefitted: 10,000 Technical Assistance: Buy-In helps local governments identify apply for and administer complex government funding programs for buyouts to remove people from the path of repeated devasting flooding events.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Land: buy-in provides planning support to communities to support conservation and restoration of nature based solutions on hazard-impacted lands post buyout through its relocation to restoration programs. Persons benefited: 2,000
$202,250 spentof which $10,000 as grants77% of program spendingPeople: buy-ins community partnerships program works with community-based organizations cbos to design and implement household-level surveys to document impacts from natural and industrial hazards and design programs and services to directly benefit individuals. Persons benefitted: 500
$22,126 spentof which $2,000 as grants8% of program spendingHousing: buy-in develops locally-appropriate re-housing programs to support people relocating out of harms way. Persons benefitted: 150
$16,571 spent6% of program spendingResearch
$4,306 spent$5,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingTechnical Assistance
$6,881 spent$10,087 earned by the program3% of program spendingPlanning
$6,489 spent$154 earned by the program2% of program spendingProgram Services General
$3,870 spent$650 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $262,493.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $173k to $48k (−72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kelly Leilani Main
Executive Director
Board chair
Steven Horowitz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Buy-In Community Planning Inc’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
Buy-In Community Planning Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Buy-In Community Planning Inc.
“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
91% of Buy-In Community Planning Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like Buy-In Community Planning Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 Buy-In Community Planning Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Buy-In Community Planning Inc?
- Buy-In Community Planning Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,962 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($108,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Buy-In Community Planning Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $118,962 in grants to Buy-In Community Planning Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Buy-In Community Planning Inc?
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the largest funder on record, with $108,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Buy-In Community Planning Inc 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing