· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marec Action | $325,000 |
| Advanced Power Alliance | $325,000 |
| Interwest Energy Alliance | $120,000 |
| Alliance For Clean Energy NY | $90,000 |
| Renew Northeast | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TATHE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE2× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +313%
- IEInterwest Energy Alliance3× · 2022–2024 · $280k · revenue +47%
- SRSOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $240k · revenue +269% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $325k · revenue +232% · 45% of their budget
- CGCLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)one grant, 2022 · $320k · revenue -6%
- ESENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $162k · revenue +122%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The California Energy Alliance (CEA) unites representatives of a broad range of organizations concerned about energy and the build environment. As a member-based organization, CEA works to improve California's energy future and migration…
To transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is an educational nonprofit working to accelerate the transition to a clean, affordable, and resilient energy system for all.SEPA collaborates with over 1,000 member organizations across the…
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,…
Advocacy group working to promote clean, sustainable energy use and generation for long island.
NESEA acts as a hub that connects citizens, professionals, businesses and organizations in the Northeast seeking to discover and demonstrate the responsible production and use of energy.
Mnseia's mission is to grow solar and energy storage industries as part of minnesota's clean energy transition by delivering strong public policy, education, job creation and sustainable industry development.
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. economy, & driving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Clean Energy New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC RENEWABLE ENERGY COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE ADVANCED POWER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) ↗
- Who funds Interwest Energy Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW NORTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · American Clean Power Association · The Energy Foundation · Multiplier
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Council On Renewable Energy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.