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American Clean Power Association

Acp is the voice of companies from across the clean power sector that are powering america's future & providing cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis while creating jobs, spurring massive investment in the u.s.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Environment$2.1MPublic Benefit$495kCommunity Improvement$246kArts & Culture$25kEmployment$11k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $1,904,429, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,014,129 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,700 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
$98,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE$246,429
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE$220,000
SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION$200,000
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$185,000
ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE$170,000
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION$150,000
ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK$135,000
TRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC$100,000
SOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION$98,000
RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT$95,000
UTILITY SCALE SOLAR ENERGY COALITION OF OHIO$75,000
MAREC ACTION$60,000
INTERWEST ENERGY ALLIANCE$55,000
RENEW NORTHEAST INC$40,000
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE SOCIETIES OF WASHINGTON DC$25,000
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAREC ACTION: $95k → 11%CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE: $183k → 7%CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE: $220k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK: $135k → 14%ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE: $170k → 10%PROJECT QUEST: $11k → 16%INTERWEST ENERGY ALLIANCE: $152k → 14%SOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $98k → 17%TRUMP VANCE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE INC: $100k → 14%CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK: $60k → 16%RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT: $150k → 12%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%RENEW NORTHEAST INC: $50k → 12%UTILITY SCALE SOLAR ENERGY COALITION OF OHIO: $75k → 15%ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK: $90k → 14%ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE: $45k → 10%INTERWEST ENERGY ALLIANCE: $55k → 14%SOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $30k → 17%FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION DBA BLUE ROSE ACTION: $25k → 14%RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT: $95k → 12%RENEW NORTHEAST INC: $40k → 12%DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE: $246k → 14%CLEAN POWER INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE: $25k → 14%SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE SOCIETIES OF WASHINGTON DC: $25k → 14%REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $185k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
OR
OH
CT
MD
DE
NM
AR
DC
TX
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$1.7M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RN
    RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST
    2× · 2022–2024 · $245k · revenue +92%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +69%
  • TA
    THE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $215k · revenue +313%

Funded once

  • CE
    Conservative Energy Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +26%
  • CP
    CLEAN POWER INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +840%
  • PQ
    PROJECT QUEST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +2%
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.

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Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
2
Clean Economy Project Inc

Cleanecon works to advance economic growth, shared proserity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change. policy and regulatory frameworks must change to accelerate buiding, innovating, and investing in clean technologies.

Environment
3
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
6
Center for a New American Security Inc

The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…

International
7
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
8
Clean Energy States Alliance Inc

Technical support to States clean energy agencies. CESA is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing state and local efforts to implement smart clean energy policies, programs, technology innovation, and financing tools.

Environment
9
Clean Energy Group Inc

Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

Environment
10
Natural Gas Supply Association

The object and purpose of the association is to promote sound federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the natural gas industry, the equitable and effective administration of such laws and regulations, and to educate and inform…

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11
Partnership for Global Security

The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…

International
12
Clean Energy Grid Action

Americans for a clean energy grid's mission is to educate all americans to the critical importance of expanding, modernizing, and integrating the high-capacity transmission grid in order to achieve greater security, reliability,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Securing America's Future Energy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is 58TH Presidential Inaugural Committee. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES): $403,333 · EnvironmentCLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST: $245,000 · EnvironmentRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTH…ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK INC: $225,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK INCMAREC ACTION: $155,000 · EnvironmentMAREC ACTIONRENEW NORTHEAST INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentRENEW NORTHEAST INCConservative Energy Network: $59,500 · EnvironmentEDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC: $246,429 · Community ImprovementEDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INCTHE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE: $215,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCEInterwest Energy Alliance: $207,000 · Community ImprovementInterwest Energy AllianceSOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $128,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOC…SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENER…Republican Governors Association: $185,000 · OtherRepublican Governors Associati…DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATI…58TH PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $100,000 · Other58TH PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL CO…UTILITY SCALE SOLAR ENERGY COALITION OF OHIO: $75,000 · OtherUTILITY SCALE SOLAR ENERGY COA…+2 more: $50,000 · Other+2 moreCLEAN POWER INSTITUTE: $49,635 · PhilanthropyFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $25,000 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT QUEST INC: $11,100 · Employment
Environment$1,177,833Community Improvement$796,429Other$760,000Philanthropy$49,635Public Benefit$35,000Employment$11,100

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 budgetCLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES): $403,333 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC: $246,429 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST: $245,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK INC: $225,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE: $215,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetInterwest Energy Alliance: $207,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAREC ACTION: $155,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $128,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetRENEW NORTHEAST INC: $90,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetConservative Energy Network: $59,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLEAN POWER INSTITUTE: $49,635 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE S DBA THE GEORGIA STATE SOCIETY O: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPROJECT QUEST INC: $11,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Edison Electric Insti…Fidelity Investments …
Edison Electric Institute IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · 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 American Clean Power Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Clean Power Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%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
    4get 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.

    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 21 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.

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