Illinois · Public charity
Elevate Energy
Elevate Energy promotes and expands access to future-focused energy and water solutions. Elevate Energy designs and implements programs that reduce costs, create jobs, and ensure the benefits of efficient energy and water use reach those who need them most.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,021,335
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations Elevate Energy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $3.2M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $5.7M | 77% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $2.5M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2.1M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Ecology Inc | $11,118,410 | 8 | 41% |
| Community Housing Partners | $1,146,926 | 1 | n/a |
| Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation | $781,012 | 4 | 5% |
| Solutions Project Inc | $612,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Goodell Place Unlimited Partnership | $535,608 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Health NFP | $434,249 | 3 | 1% |
| Warrenconner Development Coalition | $382,200 | 2 | 5% |
| Madison Community Capital | $288,000 | 1 | n/a |
| US Green Building Council-Illinois | $226,197 | 1 | 20% |
| Fairway | $197,700 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Ecology Inc | $11,118,410 | 8 | 41% |
| Community Housing Partners | $1,146,926 | 1 | n/a |
| Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation | $781,012 | 4 | 5% |
| Solutions Project Inc | $612,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Goodell Place Unlimited Partnership | $535,608 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Health NFP | $434,249 | 3 | 1% |
| Warrenconner Development Coalition | $382,200 | 2 | 5% |
| Madison Community Capital | $288,000 | 1 | n/a |
| US Green Building Council-Illinois | $226,197 | 1 | 20% |
| Fairway | $197,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp | $194,000 | 3 | 0% |
| West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc | $180,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Ha | $175,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Business Services Collective Nfp Dba Builders Avenue | $170,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Ann Arbor Housing Development Corp | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Avalon Nonprofit Housing Corporation | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Develop Detroit Inc | $115,000 | 1 | 2% |
| 444 Realty | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nick & Eddie Construction | $99,882 | 1 | n/a |
| Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake | $99,864 | 2 | n/a |
| Slipstream Group Inc | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Cliff Chippewa Housing Authority | $83,714 | 2 | n/a |
| Polar Bear Sustainable Energy Cooperative | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parker-Arntz Plumbing & Heating | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brilliant Detroit | $68,398 | 1 | 0% |
| Walnut Way Conservation Corporation | $65,000 | 1 | 2% |
| SOUL Works L3C | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Options for Urban Living Inc | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aire Serv of Madison | $51,761 | 1 | n/a |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Common Wealth Development Inc | $48,532 | 1 | 1% |
| Kelly Heating and Electric LLC | $46,764 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustain Dane Inc | $43,229 | 2 | 3% |
| Next Step Energy LLC | $39,423 | 1 | n/a |
| Hispanic Center of Western Michigan Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| No Earth Wasted Living Ecological Awareness Farm Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Want Green Too | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| One Love Global | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Benton Harbor Community Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Friends of Rouge Park | $25,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Soulardarity | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| B a S S Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Ho-Chunk Housing and Community Development Agency | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Gifted & Green | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Concerned Residents for South Dearborn | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Health Improvement Alliance | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Urban Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream of Detroit | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Growing Hope Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Washington Heights United Methodist Church | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Detroit Justice Center | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Avalon Village Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Great Lakes Indian Housing Association | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Core Collective | $18,614 | 1 | 2% |
| Trilogy Inc | $16,666 | 1 | 0% |
| Marillac St Vincent Family Services Inc | $16,666 | 1 | 0% |
| United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers of America | $12,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Pentecostal House of Prayer | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Accurate-Airtight Exteriors LLC | $9,615 | 1 | n/a |
| Illinois Finance Authority | $5,455 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elevate Energy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Skillman Foundation · Windward Fund · Allied Media Projects Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About Elevate Energy
- How much does Elevate Energy give?
- Elevate Energy reported 46 grants totaling $3,277,344 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Elevate Energy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Elevate Energy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Ecology Inc ($11M), Community Housing Partners ($1.1M), Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation ($781k).
- Does Elevate Energy fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elevate Energy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Elevate Energy based?
- Elevate Energy is based in IL.
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