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E4thefuture Inc

E4thefuture's mission is to promote residential clean energy and sustainable resource solutions to advance climate protection and economic fairness by influencing federal, state and local policies, and by helping to build a resilient and vibrant energy efficiency and clean energy sector.

$575k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$7.6MHousing & Shelter$49kCommunity Improvement$25kHealth$21kCrime & Legal$15k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATON OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS$325,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION (ACE)$100,000
HOME PERFORMANCE COALITION$100,000
BW RESEARCH$25,000
NORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS$15,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY$10,000
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 (FY17–19, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHARED MOBILITY INC: $120k → 13%SHARED MOBILITY INC: $92k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $15k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $7k → 16%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of E4thefuture Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

E4thefuture Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 20 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$7.1M
$572k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+38%

Still filing today

95%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HP
    HOME PERFORMANCE COALITION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +73% · 46% of their budget
  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $970k · revenue +93%
  • AE
    Advanced Energy Institute
    6× · 2017–2023 · $965k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • SM
    SHARED MOBILITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $212k · revenue +163%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +105%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -36%

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
California Energy Alliance

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Energy Efficiency Business Coalition

To improve the business conditions and promote the common interest of one or more lines of business that involve the manufacture, distribution, installation, marketing, sales and related services that all involve the implementation of…

Community Improvement
3
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies

CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and…

Environment
4
Nw Energy Coalition

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…

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5
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc

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.

Environment
6
Lean in Energy
Education
7
Seec Institute Inc

To convene the private sector, Congress, leading climate and environmental advocates, and other experts to facilitate more formal and regular connections between interested parties and stakeholders to secure the biggest climate and clean…

Education
8
Clean Energy Group Inc

Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

Environment
9
Advanced Energy United Inc

To transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses.

Community Improvement
10
International Institute for Energy Conservation

To promote the use of efficient and sustainable energy resources

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11
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
12
Acadia Center

Acadia Center advances bold, effective, and equitable clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Performance Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%58%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 34 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOME PERFORMANCE COALITION INC — $1,910,000 · EnvironmentHOME PERFORMANCE COALITION INCAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY — $970,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMYAdvanced Energy Institute — $964,500 · EnvironmentAdvanced Energy InstituteACT Institute Inc — $686,500 · EnvironmentACT Institute IncNORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS — $280,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $195,000 · Environment+12 more — $642,000 · Environment+12 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS — $775,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIA…Institute for Applied Economic Advancement Inc — $228,020 · OtherInstitute for Ap…ARISE INC — $40,000 · Other+3 more — $71,240 · Other+3 moreALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $315,000 · Community ImprovementCalifornia Energy Efficiency Industry Council — $152,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance for Climate Transition Inc — $34,500 · Community ImprovementBUILDING PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $24,500 · Community ImprovementSHARED MOBILITY INC — $212,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC — $99,000 · Housing & ShelterGREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Environment$5,648,000Other$1,114,260Community Improvement$526,000Human Services$234,000Housing & Shelter$124,000Crime & Legal$15,000

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 budgetHOME PERFORMANCE COALITION INC — $1,910,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY — $970,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute — $964,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS — $775,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetACT Institute Inc — $686,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $315,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetNORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS — $280,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSHARED MOBILITY INC — $212,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $195,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCalifornia Energy Efficiency Industry Council — $152,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSmart Electric Power Alliance — $122,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC — $99,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRESOURCE INNOVATION INSTITUTE — $52,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetEFFICIENCY FOR ALL — $50,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetAMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCIL — $48,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetVERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARISE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAlliance for Climate Transition Inc — $34,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMassEnergize Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetGREEN ECO WARRIORS INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetENERGY AUDITOR AND RETROFITTER INC DBA HOME ENERGY MAGAZINE — $25,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMARYLAND BUILDING PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetBUILDING PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $24,500 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $22,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUILDING PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC — $4,500 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.

Barr FoundationUnited States Energy …The Energy FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…The John Merck FundBoston Foundation IncJampart Charitable Tr…ImpactassetsincFreedom Together Foun…Natural Resources Def…The Heising-Simons Fo…Tides Foundation
Barr FoundationMA29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The John Merck Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Jampart Charitable Trust · Impactassetsinc · Freedom Together Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Tides 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 E4thefuture Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships — 100% of income from government
  • Efficiency for All — 82% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Vermont Energy Investment Corporation — 15% of income from government
  • MassEnergize Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
  • National Consumer Law Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 E4thefuture Inc?

Find your warmest path to E4thefuture Inc 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home