Plan International USA

Overview

Mission

Plan International USA advances children’s rights and equality for girls, working with children, families and communities to tackle the root causes of inequality that hold children back, especially girls. Plan’s Executive Team leads day-to-day operations and strategy across programs, finance, development, communications, advocacy and operations. Together, they translate our mission into action, support teams across the organization and ensure our work delivers results for children and girls worldwide. Their leadership helps Plan remain responsive, effective and focused on long-term change. Shanna Marzilli. In the decades that followed, Plan expanded its work to support children and families facing poverty, inequality and crisis around the world. Programs grew to address education, health and protection, shaped by close collaboration with communities and local partners. As the...

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.

• Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 66
• Transparency & Controls: 81
• Accountability: 96
• Sustainability: 46
• Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
• Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 68.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34.3M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $411K · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.1M reported
• Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
• Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
• 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: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.