Annual Report 2025

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Message from the CEO

Leesa Carter-Jones

Dear Friends,

As we reflect on the past year, we do so with deep gratitude and momentum Captain Planet Foundation directly engaged more than 40,000 young people across CPF programs worldwide — a record number of young people—at a moment when climate and environmental challenges demand bold and authentic investment in youth-centered leadership and action We also marked meaningful progress across our global network as our first class of Planeteer Alliance Regional Leaders in Canada, Ecuador, The Gambia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and the U S joined the team— creating a culminating step for young leaders who climb our Ladder of Engagement.

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About Captain Planet Foundation

CPF Countries Reached
100+ Countries Reached & Counting!

Empowering problem solvers for the planet

As young people acknowledge the truth of a climate-insecure future,
the Captain Planet Foundation works with partners to develop
the tools, resources, strategies, and opportunities that engage
youth, connect them with their communities and environment, and
empower them to be active global citizens and collaborative agents of change for the planet.

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Kid Impressions
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Projects Around the Globe
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Kids Directly Funded
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Teachers Trained

Our programs educate, empower, & engage

Project Learning Garden
Providing elementary schools with the essential elements to establish and support garden programs where students engage in inquiry-driven, project-based learning across all disciplines.

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Green Heart STEM
Challenge Training and empowering middle school students to innovate and implement place-based solutions to the biggest local environmental challenges.

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Planeteer Alliance
Activating and funding a global community of young environmental changemakers (ages 10-25) through youth-designed and youth-led trainings, resources, and collaboration.

The Green Workforce

The Green Workforce
Planeteers are prepared to enter the workforce as climate-conscious leaders.

Project Learning Garden

AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM

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Every Garden Is A Classroom
We believe it is ESSENTIAL for every school to have an on-site learning laboratory where ideas learned in the classroom come alive in the real world. From an early age, Project Learning Garden teaches students to grow food, develop a palate for healthy fruits & vegetables, build crucial interpersonal skills, and establish a strong ethic of community engagement.

In 2025, we introduced a teacher certification program with an inaugural cohort of 55 educators certified as “Gardeneers”. This additional layer of support expands opportunities for teacher and student engagement and deepens the impact of the program over its life in a school.

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Teachers Trained
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Youth Accessing School Gardens Each Year
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Project Learning Garden™ Locations Across 41 States

47 Project Learning Garden™ Grants in 12 states

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“Thank you! Your input and support helps us make the garden a better place for all students!”- Julie, Bright Beginnings Learning Center, New Jersey

PLG Grants
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Georgia
  • Indiana
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Nevada
  • New York
  • Tennesee
  • Texas
  • Virginia

Funded By
Bashas’, Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, Dematic, Georgia Natural Gas, KFC Foundation, Live Thrive, Publix Charities, Raley’s Supermarkets, and the Ruffwood Foundation

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Volunteer Events
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Certified
Gardeneers
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Student Creative
Submissions for CNN’s
Call to Earth Day
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Green Heart STEM Challenge

A MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM

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Students Learning
Environmental STEM
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Student Designing
Solutions
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Teachers Trained
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Green Heart STEM Challenge Designing a sustainable and equitable future for all
2025 by the numbers Focus Markets: Metro Atlanta & Metro Houston
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Schools
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Teachers
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Students Learned
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Student Teams
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Students (5 teams)
Attended Idea Incubator
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Final Projects
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Grants Distributed
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Planeteer Alliance

A DIRECT TO YOUTH PROGRAM (AGES 10-25)

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Youth Trained
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Countries Reached
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Directly invested in grants to Planeteers

Ladder of Engagement

Ladder of Engagement Levels

2025 Wind Summit Hosts

2025 Season of Solutions

2025 Global Conference Attendance

Wisdom Council Level

Other 2025 Highlights from Planeteers around the Globe

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Our Financials

How we Spend our Dollars
Captain Planet Foundation prides itself on efficient spending to maximize investment in support of our mission – working collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet. In addition to grant dollars and donations, we receive generous in-kind support, including rent, contract services, and other goods and services from several organizations. Including these in-kind donations in our functional spending, 73 cents of every dollar raised goes directly into the programmatic work of the organization.

Annual Report Graphs
Best Practice: 35% Fundraising & Administrative, 65% Programs.
Captain Planet Foundation: 27% Fundraising & Administrative, 73% Programs.

How we Invest
CPF’s operating programs provide direct service to both educators (Project Learning Garden & Green Heart STEM Challenge) AND youth (Planeteer Alliance) Across these three programs, the organization advances the role of environmental education while spotlighting and funding exemplary, replicable, solution-based projects designed by young people across the globe.

TO THAT END, CPF HAS SPENT THE LAST DECADE:

  • Taking the best ideas to scale through the development of outdoor living laboratories as instructional spaces and lessons in our Project Learning Garden program.
  • Investing in the incubation of equity-driven environmental projects, designed by young people, that result in measurable benefits to local natural systems and communities through our Green Heart STEM Challenge.
  • Investing in the training, mentoring, and amplification of activated young people who are working to redesign systems for a climate-positive future for all through our Planeteer Alliance.

Our People

Our Visionaries

Our Guardians

Our Heroes

Our Friends

The Power is Yours!

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