· Public charity
Alliance for Affordable Energy
To advocate for fair, affordable and environmentally responsible energy policies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $418k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $418,426 |
| SAGEVILLE SERVICES LLC | $15,000 |
| SPROUT NOLA FARM | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SNSPROUT NOLA3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +143%
- SSSAGEVILLE SERVICES LLC2× · 2023–2024 · $119k
- HGHEALTHY GULF2× · 2022–2023 · $82k · revenue -28%
Funded once
- LJLOUISIANA JUST RECOVERY NO COone grant, 2023 · $93k
- GNGreater New Orleans Housing Allianceone grant, 2023 · $78k · revenue -49%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Water Collaborative seeks to build a diverse network for all impacted by flood risk by focusing on equitable practices to sustainably live and thrive with water.
To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
The NOWCRJ organizes workers across race and industry and builds grassroots leadership, power and participation. The Center organizes African-American and immigrant workers to advance racial and economic justice.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
Fishing community advocacy
Founded in 2001, The Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and advocacy that promotes the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and local economies.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
Grounds Krewe is a 501c3 non-profit with a mission to promote waste prevention, recycling and sustainable products at New Orleans special events. Our vision is to help foster a festival culture that retains all of its enjoyment, while…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Relief Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Concerned Citizens of St John. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPROUT NOLA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds MICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERLY ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Gasp ↗
- Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Foundation for Louisiana · Solutions Project Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Resources Legacy Fund · Windward Fund · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance for Affordable Energy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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