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American Energy Action
AMERICAN ENERGY ACTION (aea) is organized to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code, including but not limited to, educating the public and raising awareness of the issues affecting clean energy, advocating for policies necessary for the economic, social, and environmental benefits of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $65,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $67,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.
Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.
The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…
Clean Energy for America Action Fund (CE4AEF) is a network of clean energy business leaders, workers, and advocates advancing federal decarbonization policies to protect our environment. CE4AEF works to demonstrate the depth, breadth, and…
To advance pro-growth, pro-worker and pro-american public policy through rigorous policy research, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns.
To research, develop, and educate the public and policymakers about the economic growth and emissions reduction benefits of clean energy.
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
Energy action fund advocates for a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.
United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.
Promote public policies aimed at removing barriers to economic growth and advancing economic opportunity for the American people.
To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.
Seia is the driving force behind solar energy and storage, building a stronger solar industry to power america through advocacy and education. representing organizations that promote, manufacture, install and support the development of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Wind Energy Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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.
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- Who funds STAND FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER AMERICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WIND SOLAR ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy For America Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS IMPACT ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Energy Action 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.
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