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Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC

The mission of the ALLIANCE FOR ENERGY INNOVATION LLC (alliance) is to operate the u.s. Department of energy's national laboratory of the rockies to lead research, innovation, and strategic partnership to deliver integrated solutions for an affordable and secure energy future.

$341k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$321k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,507
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$221M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
PhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$321k33%
FY20245$130k0%
FY20237$268k86%
FY20221$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Science & Tech$220kPhilanthropy$146kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$20kEducation$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNREL Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCommunity Shares of Colorado Inc: $138,785 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center: $30,010 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCo Labs Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetDenver Metro Chamber of Commerce: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Public Schools Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChc Creating Healthier Communities: $10,507 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Rose Community FoundationCO14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC?

Find your warmest path to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC 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.

About Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC

How much does Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC give?
Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC reported 3 itemized grants totaling $320,507, out of $341,317 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (53%), Philanthropy (35%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: NREL Foundation ($500k), Community Shares of Colorado Inc ($139k), Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center ($30k).
Does Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC based?
Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC is based in CO.

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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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