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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.

$341k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $320,507, the rows itemized in this filing. The $341,317 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,810 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,507
Median grant
2
States reached
$221M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NREL FOUNDATION$300,000
CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES$10,507
THE ACTION CENTER$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE ACTION CENTER: $10k → 7%Co Labs Inc: $10k → 12%MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $7k → 12%CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $11k → 9%THE ACTION CENTER: $10k → 7%CO LABS INC: $10k → 12%Community Shares of Colorado: $97k → 12%The Action Center: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO: $23k → 12%NREL FOUNDATION: $300k → 7%Community Shares of Colorado: $19k → 12%NREL FOUNDATION: $200k → 7%Denver Public Schools: $6k → 12%DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6k → 12%DENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13k → 12%Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce: $7k → 12%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 6 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$720k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • CL
    CO LABS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • DM
    DENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +33%
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
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

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2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Core Electric Cooperative

The following mission statement guides the cooperative in fulfilling its tax exempt purpose of providing quality and reliable electric service to our member-consumers: improving lives and communities through choice and innovation.

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6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
8
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
9
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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10
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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11
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce; the most unlike its peers is Nrel Foundation. 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

8 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NREL Foundation: $500,000 · EnvironmentNREL FoundationCOMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC: $138,785 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY SHARES OF COLO…DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FO…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $30,010 · OtherJEFFCO AC…DENVER METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,500 · OtherDENVER ME…CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES: $10,507 · OtherCHC CREAT…CO LABS INC: $20,000 · Education
Environment$500,000Philanthropy$157,785Other$60,017Education$20,000

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

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
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.

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 Founda…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 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.

    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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