California · Nonprofit
PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC
PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,451 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Players for the Planet Inc does
Mission
Focused on bringing professional athletes together to help inspire communities to build awareness of the power we have to reverse the environmental crisis.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Players for the planet had the following accomplishment during the year:-players for the planet athletes contributed over 150,000 trees to be planted as part of the play for trees program.-tony kemp event, oakland, ca-miami heat tree planting event, miami, ca-milwaukee brewers tree planting event, victory gardens, milwaukee wi-even longoria tree planting event, san francisco ca-tampa bay rays tree planting event-planted 140 trees at fort desoto state park in st. Petersburg florida -over 50,000 pounds of marine debris was collected in 2022 over the course of 8 events both domestically and in the dominican republic. -november 9th cleanup featuring a record 315 players from 8 different mlb academies removed 16,000 pounds alone off the beaches of santo domingo, dominican republic. -football for her beach cleanup -january 2022 venice beach, ca-miami marlins (miami marlins foundation) cleanup in collaboration with hair club for men-mlb all star game cleanup, santa monica beach, santa monica, caparticipants removed over 450 pounds of trash from santa monica beach-dominican republicfunded 8 education programs at mlb academies with more than 400 players taking a one-hour course on ocean…
$65,227 spentof which $65,196 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,227.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $3k to $4k (+14%).
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 PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Chris Dickerson
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $100k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 99% · 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
PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC draws 96% 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. $24k 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
PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET 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 PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC?
- PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,451 to it, the largest being Major League Baseball Charities Inc ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $147,451 in grants to PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET INC?
- Major League Baseball Charities Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLAYERS FOR THE PLANET 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 8 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