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Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$4.1MPhilanthropy$2.2MEmployment$2.0MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.1MYouth Development$1.0MHealth$708kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $921k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Omaha Zoo Foundation$1,000,000
Center for Energy Workforce Development$746,431
Montana Historical Society$500,000
National Society Of Collegiate Scholars$218,000
West Virginia University Foundation Inc.$167,500
National Park Foundation$100,000
Community Foundation of Jackson County$100,000
Phoenix Childrens Hospital Foundation$85,000
National Independent Venue Foundation$50,000
Freshwater Trust$50,000
Teammates Mentoring Program$50,000
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters & Branches$50,000
GenYouth$50,000
Omaha Police Foundation$36,000
American Council on Renewable Energy$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Soldiers to Sidelines: $8k → 10%Zacharys Mission: $5k → 10%El Camino Homeless Organization: $20k → 12%Soldiers to Sidelines: $58k → 11%Minneapolis Urban League: $25k → 11%Soldiers to Sidelines: $25k → 11%North End Alliance III: $5k → 21%Fair Chance: $2k → 14%National Indian Child Welfare Association: $10k → 12%National Indian Child Welfare Association: $10k → 12%Joppa: $13k → 10%Project Iowa: $10k → 10%JOPPA: $150k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 50 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
99

Total granted

$11M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+17%

Still filing today

72%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • OZ
    OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +5%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +80% · 39% of their budget
  • SF
    SPOOKSTOCK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $540k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • UW
    United Way Alliance of MOV
    one grant, 2022 · $510k
  • MH
    Montana Historial Society
    one grant, 2023 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education
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
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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6
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

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7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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11
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kurt B Seydow Dystonia Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Construc…Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%36%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/119
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,446

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 191 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
65/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES — $1,000,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESUnited Way Alliance of MOV — $510,000 · OtherUnited Way Alliance of MOVMontana Historial Society — $500,000 · OtherMontana Historial SocietyUnited Way of Calgary — $483,416 · OtherUnited Way of CalgaryNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Other+126 more — $3,734,473 · Other+126 moreOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $4,050,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $205,000 · Animals+2 more — $8,759 · AnimalsCENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $2,006,431 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR ENERGY WO…SPOOKSTOCK FOUNDATION — $540,000 · PhilanthropySPOOKSTOCK FOUNDATIO…COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GRE…GenYOUTH Incorporated — $150,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $315,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION USA INC — $441,332 · EducationTHE UNIVE…HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $263,900 · EducationHORATIO A…NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE SCHOLARS — $246,750 · EducationNATIONAL …SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS — $220,000 · EducationSOCIETY O…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $167,500 · EducationWEST VIRG…+9 more — $110,750 · Education+9 morePhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $360,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital — $100,000 · HealthImperial Valley Wellness Foundation — $20,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $20,000 · Health+6 more — $33,325 · HealthJOPPA — $162,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesSoldiers to Sidelines — $90,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT IOWA — $30,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES — $25,000 · Human ServicesEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $16,720 · Human ServicesOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $98,025 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureDUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMINDSPRING MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,477,889Animals$4,263,759Philanthropy$3,261,431Education$1,450,232Health$533,325Human Services$514,220Arts & Culture$259,025

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $4,050,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $2,006,431 over 4y, 39% of budgetSPOOKSTOCK FOUNDATION — $540,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION USA INC — $441,332 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $360,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $263,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE SCHOLARS — $246,750 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS — $220,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ASIAN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS — $217,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $205,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $167,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOPPA — $162,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK — $115,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetImperial Valley Community Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBraking Cycles — $100,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $98,025 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSoldiers to Sidelines — $90,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL IOWA INC — $90,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES — $85,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY — $75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetIowa Center for Children's Justice — $60,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $57,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $41,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPROJECT IOWA — $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Council On Renewable Energy — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budget
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.

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.

Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Suzanne & Walter Scot…Weitz Family Foundati…The West Bancorporati…The Hawks FoundationCommunity Fdn of Grea…Prairie Meadows Race …Alliance Healthcare F…The Charles and Mary …
Peter Kiewit FoundationNE27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Hawks Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation

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 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 191 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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