Plan International
Legal name: Plan International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510169168
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9173980018
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $779,465,250
- Expenses
- $756,241,742
- Assets
- $346,447,593
- Liabilities
- $80,619,999
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BHAGYASHRI DENGLE (Executive Director Asia Specific)
- ROGER YATES (Executive Director Middle East, Eastern & South Africa)
- EVARISTE SINDAYIGAYA (Executive Director)
- DEBORA COBAR URQUIZU (Executive Director - Region of the Americas)
- STEPHEN OMOLLO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- TARA CAMM (Deputy Chief Executive)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN SHERWIN (Chief Strategy & Engagement Officer): $342,279 total reported compensation
- STEPHEN OMOLLO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $287,084 total reported compensation
- PHOEBE KASOGA (Country Director Malawi): $261,070 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We stand with girls to tear down barriers and build a more equal world. We strengthen the capacity of governments and institutions to fulfil their obligations to children, while partnering with local and global organisations to address the structural causes of inequality and rights violations. In humanitarian crises, we combine immediate life saving action with longer‑term approaches that support recovery, resilience and dignity. Central to how we work is shifting power. In a world where girls’ voices are frequently marginalised, we actively support girls and young people to become drivers of change through education, advocacy and activism. We also shift decision‑making authority to colleagues, partners and programme participants in the countries where we work,.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sponsorship Communications: The full cycle of local activities, including central and regional management and logistical costs related to Child Sponsorship. The cycle starts with planning and then introducing communities to PI Inc. and to Child Sponsorship, enrolling children in the scheme, monitoring the development of children within their communities and fulfilling our promise to children, families and communities. This is done through an annual questionnaire and other visits to the sponsored children and their communities as well as the delivery of programmes. We also facilitate communications by letter or email between sponsored children and their sponsors. A sponsorship ends when the child reaches 18 or when the child leaves the scheme for another reason. Sponsorship costs also include phasing out from communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,042.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $701.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $342K · 37 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.