Florida · Nonprofit
Perpetual Use Inc
Perpetual Use Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,850 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($650,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Perpetual Use Inc does
Mission
The organization facilitates a community-driven design and the implementation of reduction in disposable foodware usage and its associated harms including GHG emissions waste and human and environmental impacts from production disposal and leakage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization facilitates a community-driven design and implementation of inclusive equitable sustainable resuable foodware programs in US cities in hopes to reduce disposable foodware usage and its associated harms including GHG emissions waste and human and environmental impacts from production disposal and leakage. The organization also provided technical assistance to state and local governments to be able to apply for Climate Pollution Reduction Grant funding.
$1,005,777 spentof which $234,752 as grants$154,540 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,005,777.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $618k to $1.3M (+114%).
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: 2024 0% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Perpetual Use Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Elizabeth Moss
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $251k → $545k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Perpetual Use 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
Perpetual Use Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 Perpetual Use Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 68% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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
Perpetual Use Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Perpetual Use Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Perpetual Use Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $192k on record — $192k federal, $263 state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$192k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $263
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Perpetual Use 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Perpetual Use 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 Perpetual Use Inc?
- Perpetual Use Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,850 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($650,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Perpetual Use Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,662,850 in grants to Perpetual Use Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Perpetual Use Inc?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Perpetual Use Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2022–2025), 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