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American Council On Renewable Energy

The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a 501 (c)(3) national nonprofit organization that unites finance, policy and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy.

$910k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$120,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$325,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations American Council On Renewable Energy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity Improvement
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
FY2024still arriving5$910k0%
FY20235$555k20%
FY20226$1.1M100%
FY20212$487kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$3.1MPhilanthropy$60k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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AR
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

American Council On Renewable Energy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Advanced Power Alliance: $600,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAmericans for a Clean Energy Grid Inc: $325,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetClean Grid Alliance (Fna Wind on the Wires): $320,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetInterwest Energy Alliance: $280,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSouthern Renewable Energy Association: $240,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetEnergy Systems Integration Group Inc: $162,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRenew Northeast Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetAlliance for Clean Energy New York Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

United States Energy FoundationCA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · American Clean Power Association · The Energy Foundation · Multiplier

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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About American Council On Renewable Energy

How much does American Council On Renewable Energy give?
American Council On Renewable Energy reported 5 grants totaling $910,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does American Council On Renewable Energy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (98%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are American Council On Renewable Energy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition ($875k), The Advanced Power Alliance ($600k), Americans for a Clean Energy Grid Inc ($325k).
Does American Council On Renewable Energy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Council On Renewable Energy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, American Clean Power Association, The Energy Foundation.
Where is American Council On Renewable Energy based?
American Council On Renewable Energy is based in DC.

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 10 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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