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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 FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$210k
Largest
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 FY20182024.

Environment$13MScience & Tech$8.3MFood & Nutrition$3.8MEmployment$96kYouth Development$74kCommunity Improvement$58kEducation$22kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 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
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ENERGY LABS INC$210,000
FORUM MOBILITY INC$200,000
PROJECT VESTA$100,000
SHIFTED ENERGY$67,600
FRONTLINE GIG$50,000
SOURCE GLOBAL PBC$50,000
GRADIENT$50,000
GRO ENTERPRISES INC$50,000
SOLAR AND ENERGY LOAN FUND OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC$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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMBRIAN WATER OPERATIONS LLC: $398k → 8%NTH CYCLE INC: $250k → 10%TRADELANES: $300k → 9%NITRICITY INC: $300k → 10%VENCE CORP: $315k → 11%AMPAIRE INC: $264k → 11%GATHER AGRICULTURE INC: $350k → 19%THRILLING INC: $235k → 9%DIMENSIONAL ENERGY: $250k → 16%SHYFT POWER SOLUTIONS: $250k → 16%PROTERRA INC: $275k → 10%MYTHOS AI INC: $200k → 11%COMMUNITY ENERGY LABS INC: $307k → 12%TRANSCEND SOFTWARE INC: $525k → 11%MOLG INC: $213k → 6%VIBRANT PLANET PBC: $250k → 10%ZERO MASS WATER INC: $350k → 11%VENCE CORP: $315k → 11%AMPAIRE INC: $227k → 11%CLIMATE ROBOTICS INC: $250k → 14%BLUE OCEAN BARNS INC: $200k → 15%THRILLING INC: $205k → 9%BLOCPOWER LLC: $260k → 20%SPARKMETER INC: $375k → 14%COMMUNITY ENERGY LABS INC: $210k → 12%JUPITER INTELLIGENCE INC: $380k → 7%COURIAL INC: $250k → 10%BLOCPOWER LLC: $200k → 20%HAWAII ULU PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE: $258k → 15%ENERGY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CORP: $250k → 12%EVRNU SPC: $570k → 9%AMPLY POWER INC: $308k → 8%BLOCPOWER LLC: $250k → 20%FORUM MOBILITY INC: $300k → 7%CTY INC DBA NUMINA: $235k → 20%FULL HARVEST TECHNOLOGIES INC: $500k → 10%MICROVI BIOTECH INC: $280k → 10%MICROVI BIOTECH INC: $250k → 10%TROVE RECOMMERCE INC: $325k → 7%SCOOT NETWORKS INC: $325k → 10%WEAVE GRID INC: $300k → 10%YERDLE INC: $325k → 7%SUNFOLDING INC: $400k → 10%OHMCONNECT INC: $300k → 10%SPANIO INC: $296k → 10%PROJECT VESTA PBC: $300k → 10%LEAPFROG POWER INC: $217k → 10%SWIFTLY INC: $300k → 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

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 73 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

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
16

Total granted

$23M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+5%

Still filing today

11%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity 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

  • AA
    Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet
    3× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CLIMATE CABINET ACTION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +592%
  • CP
    CLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SI
    SUNFOLDING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
  • GA
    GATHER AGRICULTURE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
  • OI
    OHMCONNECT INC
    one 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.

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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
2
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
3
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
5
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
6
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
7
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
8
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
9
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
10
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
11
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
12
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…

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.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 109 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+95 more — $24,956,922 · Other+95 moreSOLAR & ENERGY LOAN FUND OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentActerra Action for a Healthy Planet — $41,800 · EnvironmentCLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC — $24,200 · EnvironmentSmart Electric Power Alliance — $22,000 · EnvironmentBLUE PLANET FOUNDATION — $17,600 · EnvironmentCLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC — $16,600 · EnvironmentILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION — $9,600 · EnvironmentCLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $100,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $15,425 · EducationUS GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL WEST MICHIGAN CHAPTER — $15,400 · EducationAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $120,000 · PhilanthropyCoalition for Community Solar Access — $8,800 · Community ImprovementCONSERVATION X LABS INC — $6,600 · AnimalsLALAKEA FOUNDATION — $5,625 · Arts & Culture
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBIKESHARE HAWAII — $100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSOLAR & ENERGY LOAN FUND OF ST LUCIE COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetActerra Action for a Healthy Planet — $41,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCLIMATE CABINET ACTION — $29,800 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC — $24,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSmart Electric Power Alliance — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE PLANET FOUNDATION — $17,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC — $16,600 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $15,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL WEST MICHIGAN CHAPTER — $15,400 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION — $9,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCoalition for Community Solar Access — $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONSERVATION X LABS INC — $6,600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United States Energy FoundationCA14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Echoing Green Inc · Patagoniaorg · New Venture Fund · 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 organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Solar & Energy Loan Fund of St Lucie County Inc100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 109 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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