California · Nonprofit
PAPER AIRPLANES INC
PAPER AIRPLANES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,378 to it, the largest being KARAM FOUNDATION ($211,222). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $260k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Paper Airplanes Inc does
Mission
Paper Airplanes provides free English language and skills instruction over Skype or Zoom to refugees and other people affected by conflict.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Women in Tech Program provides remote technology skills instruction to refugees and others affected by conflict. In 2025, this program served 225 persons in need.
$6,500 spent10% of program spendingThe English Program provides remote English instruction to refugees and others affected by conflict. In 2025, this program served over 1000 persons in need.
$54,761 spent87% of program spendingThe Professional Skills Development Program provides remote training and advice for applying for jobs or scholarships to refugees and others affected by conflict. In 2025, this program served 35 persons in need.
$1,400 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,661.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $6k to $39k (+510%).
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.
100% of PAPER AIRPLANES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ibrahim Alaboud
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $42k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PAPER AIRPLANES 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
PAPER AIRPLANES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 PAPER AIRPLANES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 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
PAPER AIRPLANES INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
PAPER AIRPLANES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PAPER AIRPLANES 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAPER AIRPLANES 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 PAPER AIRPLANES INC?
- PAPER AIRPLANES INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,378 to it, the largest being KARAM FOUNDATION ($211,222). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAPER AIRPLANES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $260,378 in grants to PAPER AIRPLANES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAPER AIRPLANES INC?
- KARAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $211,222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAPER AIRPLANES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing