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California Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions

To promote renewable energy policies in california with a particular focus on energy storage.

$88k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Community Improvement$145kCivil Rights$26kArts & Culture$24kHuman Services$18kEmployment$10kHealth$10kPublic Benefit$7kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $15,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $72,900 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.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pueblo Unido$10,000
Culturas Music & Arts$5,500
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 (FY19–19, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RAP Foundation: $10k → 11%Galilee Center: $18k → 11%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.

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 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.

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The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
2
Central Ca Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is to promote business from start up to fruition, utilizing the success of our diverse community and the resources of our chamber members. We provide education and…

Community Improvement
3
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La Foundation Inc

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services
4
Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Economic development of the latino community

Community Improvement
5
Rancho Cordova Chamber of Commerce

As the membership organization of business, we promote our community's economic vitality and quality of life through leadership development, advocacy, facilitation and education. The Chamber invests in our community by providing a…

Community Improvement
6
Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen the regions business community by providing education, technical assistance, access to capital, procurement facilitation and workforce development training.

Community Improvement
7
Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce

Promote business in chula vista, ca.

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8
Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce

To promote a business friendly environment and to enhance the quality of life and the economy of rancho cucamonga

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9
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
10
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

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11
San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The san joaquin county hispanic chamber of commerce represents the interest of over 250 members, many of whom are small business owners. established in 1972 as the stockton mexican american chamber of commerce, the chamber provides…

Community Improvement
12
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice and the most unlike its peers is Galilee Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALLEY INDUSTRY & COMMERCE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · OtherVALLEY INDUSTRY & COMMERCE ASSOCIATIONLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEIndividual grant recipient — $10,220 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCalifornia Hispanic Chambers of Commerce — $10,000 · OtherCalifornia Hispanic Chambers of CommerceRIVERSIDE COUNTY WORKS — $10,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE COUNTY WORKSCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INCCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENCY — $7,400 · OtherCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENCYDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES — $6,250 · OtherDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIESCOACHELLA VALLEY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $54,605 · Community ImprovementCOACHELLA VALLEY ECONOMIC P…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $7,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION…GALILEE CENTER INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENT…REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ACC…LATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Arts & CultureLATINO LEGI…RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM — $8,220 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE A…Culturas Music & Arts — $5,500 · Arts & CultureCulturas Mu…PUEBLO UNIDO CDC — $23,100 · Housing & ShelterPUEBLO UNI…RAICES CULTURA — $10,000 · EducationEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $5,500 · Civil Rights
Other$101,370Community Improvement$61,605Human Services$27,500Arts & Culture$26,220Housing & Shelter$23,100Education$10,000Civil Rights$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $54,605 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVALLEY INDUSTRY & COMMERCE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUEBLO UNIDO CDC — $23,100 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCalifornia Hispanic Chambers of Commerce — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAICES CULTURA — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM — $8,220 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES — $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Inland Empire Communi…Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…The James Irvine Foun…California Community …Regional Access Proje…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · California Community Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 California Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions 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
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY20–24

    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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    How do I get to California Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions?

    Find your warmest path to California Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions 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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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