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American Wind Energy Association

The mission of the AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION (awea) is to promote wind power growth through advocacy, communications and education.

$766k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
6
Organizations funded FY2020
67%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 67% of the organizations American Wind Energy Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Science & TechEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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
FY20206$766k67%
FY20192$310k0%
FY20182$710k0%
FY20172$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Environment$3.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Energy Action$1,700,000422%
Wind Solar Alliance$1,510,000448%
American Renewable Energy Association$500,0001n/a
American Council On Renewable Energy$50,00011%
Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute$40,00011%
Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy$16,00012%

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About American Wind Energy Association

How much does American Wind Energy Association give?
American Wind Energy Association reported 6 grants totaling $766,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does American Wind Energy Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are American Wind Energy Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: American Energy Action ($1.7M), Wind Solar Alliance ($1.5M), American Renewable Energy Association ($500k).
Does American Wind Energy Association fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is American Wind Energy Association based?
American Wind Energy Association 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 6 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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