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· Public charity

Alliance for Affordable Energy

To advocate for fair, affordable and environmentally responsible energy policies.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$418k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$220kFood & Nutrition$200kCrime & Legal$143kHuman Services$126kHousing & Shelter$96kCivil Rights$50kEducation$43kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $418k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$418,426
SPROUT NOLA FARM$15,000
SAGEVILLE SERVICES LLC$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $10k → 23%MICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION: $40k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$420k · 4 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
24

Total granted

$420k
$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SN
    SPROUT NOLA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +143%
  • SS
    SAGEVILLE SERVICES LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $119k
  • HG
    HEALTHY GULF
    2× · 2022–2023 · $82k · revenue -28%

Funded once

  • LJ
    LOUISIANA JUST RECOVERY NO CO
    one grant, 2023 · $93k
  • GN
    Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $78k · revenue -49%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans

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.

Environment
2
Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Environment
3
Louisiana Swamp Watch Inc

Educate public on special interest in Louisiana

Public Benefit
4
For a Better Bayou

To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.

Environment
5
New Orleans Workers Ctr for Racial Justice

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.

Civil Rights
6
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape Soul

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.

Environment
8
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
9
Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United

Fishing community advocacy

Community Improvement
10
The Urban Conservancy

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.

Community Improvement
11
Together Louisiana

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…

Public Benefit
12
Steps Coalition

To build a democratic movement to create a healthy, just and equitable mississippi gulf coast by developing local leadership, supporting communities to advocate for their needs and by facilitating communication, coordination, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Relief Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $418,426 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAGEVILLE SERVICES LLC: $118,667 · OtherSAGEVILLE SERVICES LLCLOUISIANA JUST RECOVERY NO CO: $93,334 · OtherLOUISIANA JUST RECOVERY NO COIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRISE ST JAMES CO EARTH ISLAND INS: $55,000 · OtherRISE ST JAMES CO EARTH ISLAND INSNEW ORLEANS SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS: $40,000 · Other+12 more: $177,400 · Other+12 moreSPROUT NOLA: $200,000 · Food & NutritionSPROUT NOLAGreater New Orleans Housing Alliance: $77,608 · Public BenefitCOALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitHEALTHY GULF: $82,000 · EnvironmentGasp: $10,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Concerned Citizens of St John: $7,038 · EnvironmentTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $10,000 · Human ServicesXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $28,000 · Education
Other$977,827Food & Nutrition$200,000Public Benefit$117,608Environment$109,038Community Improvement$50,000Human Services$50,000Education$28,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPROUT NOLA: $200,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetHEALTHY GULF: $82,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGreater New Orleans Housing Alliance: $77,608 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION: $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERLY: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOMMON GROUND RELIEF INC: $19,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGasp: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTaproot Earth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Gasp ↗
  • Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Foundation for Louisi…Solutions Project IncTides FoundationNew Venture FundEnvironmental Defense…Resources Legacy FundWindward FundThe Greater New Orlea…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliance for Affordable Energy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Affordable Energy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Alliance for Affordable Energy?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance for Affordable Energy through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $94k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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