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Elevate Energy

Elevate Energy promotes and expands access to future-focused energy and water solutions.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$15MHousing & Shelter$2.5MCommunity Improvement$864kHealth$476kYouth Development$118kFood & Nutrition$100kEmployment$60kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $852k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Ecology Inc$1,021,335
Eastside Community Network$277,200
USGBC-ILLINOIS CHAPTER$226,197
Solutions Project Inc$200,000
Bickerdike Redevelopment Center$160,000
Community Health NFP$155,499
Slipstream Group Inc$90,000
Business Services Collective NFP$85,000
Polar Bear Sustainable Energy Co-Op$75,000
Walnut Way Conservation Corp$65,000
Sustainable Options for Urban Living Inc$55,000
CommonWealth Development Inc$48,532
Detroit Justice Center$25,000
Friends of Rouge Park$25,000
Keweenaw Community Foundation$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Washington Heights United Methodist Church and Com: $25k → 14%Benton Harbor Community Development Corporation: $25k → 15%One Love Global Inc: $25k → 16%Marillac St Vincent: $17k → 14%Hispanic Center of Western Michigan: $25k → 11%Dream of Detroit: $25k → 21%Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance: $25k → 21%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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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
TN

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 31% of Elevate Energy’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, 14% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 43% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Elevate Energylessmore 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 12 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$14M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • NE
    NEW ECOLOGY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +116% · 41% of their budget
  • SP
    Solutions Project Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $612k · revenue +26%
  • WD
    WARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $382k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CH
    Community Housing Partners
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M
  • GP
    Goodell Place Unlimited Partnership
    one grant, 2023 · $536k
  • MC
    Madison Community Capital
    one grant, 2021 · $288k

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
The Greening of Detroit

The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.

Environment
2
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Detroit Land Bank Community Development Corporation

The detroit land bank community development corporation's mission is to serve the people of the city of detroit, michigan through the advancement of economic welfare, the promotion of community development, and the provision of affordable…

Community Improvement
4
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
5
New Development Corporation

Promote home ownership & affordable housing to alleviate neighborhood blight in targeted low and moderate income ares. work with low-income individuals to help them obtain and retain home ownership, facilitate homeowner repair grants and…

Housing & Shelter
6
United Community Housing Coalition

To help low-income residents in detroit and wayne county stay in their homes and strengthen their communities, through representation, support, and ownership. we believe that having a place to live is a basic human right, and are…

Housing & Shelter
7
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
8
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…

Environment
9
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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10
Connect Detroit

To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.

Community Improvement
11
Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit (D4) Coalition Inc

To build a diverse coalition of community, environmental, faith and organized labor organizations united to strengthen metro detroit through meaningful community engagement in the creation of sustainable "win-win" economic development…

Community Improvement
12
Arise Detroit

To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Way Conservation Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Washington Heights United Methodist Church. 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 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%79%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr14%1%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/68
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,290

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

47 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. 47 of the 69 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)
47/47
Grantees still filing
16/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW ECOLOGY INC — $11,118,410 · EnvironmentNEW ECOLOGY INCSolutions Project Inc — $612,000 · Environment+7 more — $459,426 · EnvironmentCommunity Housing Partners — $1,146,926 · OtherCommunity Housing Partn…Goodell Place Unlimited Partnership — $535,608 · OtherGoodell Place Unlimited…Madison Community Capital — $288,000 · OtherMadison Community Capit…CSI Support & Development Services (Dunn) — $200,000 · OtherFairway — $197,700 · OtherWEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $180,000 · OtherLac du Flambeau Chippewa Ha — $175,000 · Other+30 more — $1,223,742 · Other+30 moreBICKERDIKE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $781,012 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN HOUSING PRESERVATION CORP — $194,000 · Housing & ShelterANN ARBOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterAVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $65,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION — $382,200 · Community ImprovementDEVELOP DETROIT INC — $115,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABLE OPTIONS FOR URBAN LIVING INC — $55,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $48,532 · Community Improvement+1 more — $18,614 · Community ImprovementCommunity Health NFP — $434,249 · HealthMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE — $25,000 · HealthBUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE — $170,000 · Civil RightsBENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesWashington Heights United Methodist Church — $25,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDream of Detroit — $25,000 · Human ServicesCody Rouge Community Action Alliance — $25,000 · Human ServicesONE LOVE GLOBAL — $25,000 · Human ServicesMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC — $16,666 · Human Services
Environment$12,189,836Other$3,946,976Housing & Shelter$1,415,012Community Improvement$619,346Health$459,249Civil Rights$170,000Human Services$166,666

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 budgetNEW ECOLOGY INC — $11,118,410 over 8y, 41% of budgetBICKERDIKE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $781,012 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $612,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Health NFP — $434,249 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION — $382,200 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUS Green Building Council-Illinois — $226,197 over 1y, 20% of budgetWISCONSIN HOUSING PRESERVATION CORP — $194,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $180,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUSINESS SERVICES COLLECTIVE NFP DBA BUILDERS AVENUE — $170,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetANN ARBOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDEVELOP DETROIT INC — $115,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSLIPSTREAM GROUP INC — $90,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $68,398 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $65,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $48,532 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUSTAIN DANE INC — $43,229 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of Rouge Park — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetB A S S INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOUR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDetroit Justice Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetKEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAvalon Village Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYOUNG GIFTED & GREEN — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWE WANT GREEN TOO — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWashington Heights United Methodist Church — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOULARDARITY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHO-CHUNK HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDream of Detroit — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE WAREHOUSE OF DETROIT — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCody Rouge Community Action Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE LOVE GLOBAL — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetURBAN CORE COLLECTIVE — $18,614 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTRILOGY INC — $16,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC — $16,666 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO & MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA — $12,200 over 1y, 0.3% 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 …Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Skillman Foundati…Windward FundAllied Media Projects…Enterprise Community …Arie and Ida Crown Me…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford Foundation
United States Energy FoundationCA23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elevate Energy 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New Ecology Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report 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, FY20–25

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.

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 69 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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