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ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC
Elemental excelerator (organization) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to scale technologies with deep environmental and local impact.
$856k
Granted FY2024
34
Grants
16
Communities
$210k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
technological solutionsolution transportationsolution energysolution circularcircular economy
2019
technological solutionsolution mobilityequity accesssolution gridsolution watersolution solarmobility equity
2020
solutions agriculturetechnological solutionsupliftculturalsolutions circularsolutions mobilitysolutions energy
2021
technological solutionsfood agriculturesolutions foodsolutions circularsolutions mobilitysolutions energyinternship
2022
edict empoweringempowering diversediverse climateclimate talenttalent interntechnological solutionssolutions industry
2023
edict empoweringempowering diversediverse climateclimate talenttalent interntechnological solutionssolutions industry
2024
hosting summersummer internsummer internsprize orleansorleans innovationinnovation challengeefficiency hosting
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 34 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $878k
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMUNITY ENERGY LABS INC$210,000
- FORUM MOBILITY INC$200,000
- PROJECT VESTA$100,000
- SHIFTED ENERGY$67,600
- SOURCE GLOBAL PBC$50,000
- GRO ENTERPRISES INC$50,000
- GRADIENT$50,000
- SOLAR AND ENERGY LOAN FUND OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC$50,000
- FRONTLINE GIG$50,000
- TRANSCEND SOFTWARE$50,000
- UNCHARTED POWER INC$35,200
- CLIMATE VINE$25,600
- WALKER-MILLER ENERGY SERVICES$24,200
- NEER TECHNOLOGIES INC$20,000
- FUTUREMAP LLC$12,025
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 73 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else
73 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
73
17
Total granted
$23M
$1.9M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+45%
+557%
Still filing today
11%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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
- AAACTERRA ACTION FOR A HEALTHY PLANET3× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +5%
- CCCLIMATE CABINET ACTION2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +2374%
- CPCLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SISUNFOLDING INCone grant, 2021 · $400k
- GAGATHER AGRICULTURE INCone grant, 2023 · $350k
- OIOHMCONNECT INCone grant, 2020 · $300k
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
Climate Access Fund Corporation
The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households
Environment
2
The Climate Center
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Education
3
Center for Energy and Environment
The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is a clean energy nonprofit with decades of special expertise in energy efficiency. Working in homes, buildings, and communities, CEE discovers and deploys the most effective energy solutions to…
Environment
4
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
5
Clean Energy Group Inc
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
6
Climate Foundation
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Science & Tech
7
CarbonPlan
We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…
Environment
8
Cascade Climate Inc
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
Environment
9
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy
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10
The Climate Group Inc
Climate group brings together networks of international businesses and governments to shift markets toward the goal of a world of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with greater prosperity for all.
Environment
11
Center for Energy Efficiency and
Promote global warming solutions and clean, renewable energy sources for California and the West.
Environment
12
Clean Energy for America Education Fund
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…
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Planet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Regeneration Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$24,956,922Environment$181,800Education$130,825Philanthropy$120,000Community Improvement$8,800Animals$6,600Arts & Culture$5,625
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.
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.
United States Energy FoundationCA14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Solar & Energy Loan Fund of — 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1rely 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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIKESHARE HAWAII.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 464561541 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BIKESHARE HAWAII, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Elemental Excelerator Inc?
Find your warmest path to Elemental Excelerator Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines