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Energy Action Fund

ENERGY ACTION FUND advocates for a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.

$20M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
152
Grants FY2024
133
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$68,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,135,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 133
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
29
Total assets, FY2024
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Energy Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving146$20M29%
FY2023133$15M40%
FY2022102$12M39%
FY2021105$7.5M60%
FY202054$6.2M50%
FY201949$3.8M71%
FY201729$2.6Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$66MEmployment$600kPublic Benefit$370kCivil Rights$250k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
League of Conservation Voters Inc$6,065,25073%
Tides Advocacy$3,945,50063%
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc$2,171,000474%
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future$1,835,750691%
Counterspark Inc$1,729,000684%
Nevada Conservation League$1,518,000641%
Western Conservation Action$1,418,531717%
Ceres Inc$1,382,50061%
Environment California Inc$1,378,000613%
Sierra Club$1,299,50070%
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All grantees of Energy Action Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
League of Conservation Voters Inc$6,065,25073%
Tides Advocacy$3,945,50063%
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc$2,171,000474%
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future$1,835,750691%
Counterspark Inc$1,729,000684%
Nevada Conservation League$1,518,000641%
Western Conservation Action$1,418,531717%
Ceres Inc$1,382,50061%
Environment California Inc$1,378,000613%
Sierra Club$1,299,50070%
Center for American Progress Action Fund$1,250,000110%
California Environmental Voters$1,160,000326%
Illinois Environmental Council General Fund$994,000530%
Conservation Voters of Sc$980,000522%
The Michigan Environmental Council Action Fund$849,000285%
Faith in Place Action Fund$815,000539%
Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund Inc$800,000211%
Environmental Defense Action Fund$749,00061%
The Partnership Project Action Fund$740,00027%
Ohio Citizen Action$720,000528%
Conservation Colorado$675,000716%
America Works USA$625,00045%
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters$625,000526%
Pennsylvania United$620,00037%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Inc$611,00047%
Environment America Inc$548,12561%
Electrification Coalition Alliance Inc$543,138497%
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania$540,00048%
Solar United Neighbors Action$500,000440%
Jobs for Michigan$500,000127%
Black Environmental Leaders Action Fund$487,370492%
Clean Power Campaign$487,250438%
Advanced Energy United Inc$455,00028%
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project$446,00065%
Association for Energy Affordability Inc$430,00012%
Nrdc Action Fund Inc$422,05061%
Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance$413,000747%
Citizens Utility Board$404,000421%
Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund$402,000627%
Potential Energy Action Network Inc$400,00018%
Vote Solar$392,00032%
Conservation Voters New Mexico$390,00059%
North Carolina Conservation Network$387,00064%
The Utility Reform Network$380,00042%
Solon Center For Research And Publishing$377,500320%
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice$350,000233%
Utility Action Alliance$350,000126%
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund Inc$340,000458%
Interwest Energy Alliance$335,000228%
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Inc$329,000516%
Just Strategy$325,000325%
Virginia League of Conservation Voters$321,00048%
Renew Oregon Action Fund$313,000385%
Future Energy Iowa$300,0002100%
Goodpower Inc$300,000216%
Texas Consumer Association Inc$285,000268%
Fresh Energy$275,00043%
Casa in Action Inc$274,00053%
Powerpac Org$270,00056%
Wisconsin Conservation Voters Inc$270,00015%
Climate Cabinet Action$265,000316%
Semilla Action$260,000141%
Arizonans for a Clean Economy$250,000121%
Center for American Progress$250,00010%
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters$238,25049%
Georgia League of Conservation Voters$235,00037%
Progressnow New Mexico$235,000354%
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters$235,00034%
Center for Civic Action$232,500410%
Texas Freedom Network$230,00048%
Clean Water Action$227,06042%
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$225,000124%
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc$223,00061%
North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association$220,00029%
Move Texas Action Fund$219,68143%
Ohio Conservatives for Land and Energy Freedom$214,0003n/a
Clean Energy Buyers Association$200,00012%
American Energy Action$200,00022%
Western Resource Advocates$200,00041%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$195,00012%
Ironbound Community Corporation$195,00031%
Pennenvironment Inc$192,50044%
BlueGreen Alliance Inc$190,00042%
Faith in Minnesota$190,00025%
Unite Oregon Action$188,500221%
American Lung Association$185,00030%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action$180,000323%
Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc$175,00038%
The Advanced Power Alliance$175,00026%
Climate Solutions$175,00012%
Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc$175,00061%
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota$166,56057%
Clean Air Action Fund$166,500431%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc$165,00011%
Copirg Citizen Lobby Inc$162,50047%
Marec Action$160,00028%
The Legacy Foundation Action Fund$160,0003100%
Rural Arizona Action$150,00014%
Gridwise Alliance Inc$150,0001n/a
Business Climate Initiative Action$150,000114%
Environmental League of Massachusetts Action Fund Inc$150,00039%
Green Advocacy Project$150,00011%
American Flood Coalition Action Inc$150,000112%
Progress Now Inc$145,00031%
State Power Action Fund$145,00028%
Texas Organizing Project$141,00025%
Power Action Fund$140,000413%
Western Organization of Resource Councils$139,00015%
The Greenlining Institute$135,00031%
Texas Future Cooperative$135,0001n/a
New Jersey Working Families Alliance Corp$135,000412%
Georgia Wand$135,0002n/a
Oregon Business Alliance for Climate$135,000262%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$130,00022%
Policy Solutions Institute$130,0001n/a
Bicycle Colorado$130,00023%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$130,00021%
Chargevc Inc$127,500415%
Marypirg Citizen Lobby Inc$125,000217%
Center for Energy and Environment$125,00020%
EEN Action$124,000279%
Cub Ohio Advocacy Group$120,0001100%
Action in Montgomery Inc$115,83127%
Oregon Environmental Council$114,50033%
Common Strategies LLC$112,6001n/a
Coalition for Community Solar Access$109,92911%
Center for Planning Excellence$105,00022%
Battle Born Progress$101,000216%
Sustain Charlotte Inc$100,000111%
Pennsylvania Solar Center$100,00037%
Takeaction Minnesota$100,00013%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$100,00020%
Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions Action Inc$100,000167%
Greater Greater Washington$100,00026%
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc$100,00016%
Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc$100,00017%
Clean Grid Alliance (Fna Wind on the Wires)$100,0001n/a
Goodpower Education Fund Inc$100,00011%
New Pennsylvania Project$100,00015%
Advance North Carolina Inc$100,000112%
Alliance for a Green Economy Inc$95,50024%
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc$95,00026%
Healthy Air and Water Colorado Action$95,000358%
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc$95,00023%
Evangelical Environmental Network$95,00035%
New York League of Conservation Voters$95,00023%
North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association Leadership Fund$95,0001n/a
Clean Up the River Environment$90,00015%
Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc$90,000122%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$90,00012%
Resource Media$90,00021%
Christian Coalition of America Inc$85,0001n/a
Action Together New Jersey Inc$85,000354%
Coalition for Clean Air$85,00024%
Coalition Against Childhood Lead Poisoning Inc$80,0002n/a
Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc$80,00020%
Healthier Colorado$80,00024%
Heat Pump Nation Inc$80,00017%
Copal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A$75,000133%
Smart Growth America$75,00011%
Move Mn Action Fund$75,000187%
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest$75,0001n/a
Cowboys for Liberty$75,0001n/a
Alliance for Affordable Energy$75,00012%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$75,00011%
Indiana Conservation Voters$75,000119%
National Audubon Society Action Fund$75,00017%
New Jersey Policy Perspective$75,00023%
Evergreen Action$75,00023%
Virginia Organizing Inc$70,00011%
Een Action Inc$65,0001n/a
Potomac Riverkeeper Network$65,00012%
Organize Action$65,00015%
Arizona Public Interest Research Group Inc$61,00047%
Western Environmental Law Center$60,00021%
Life After Release Inc$60,000121%
Clean Wisconsin Inc$60,00012%
Environmental Working Group$60,00010%
Communities for A New California$60,000116%
Community Initiatives$58,00010%
Multiplier$55,00020%
The Gridwise Alliance Inc$50,00016%
Spring Street Climate Action Inc$50,000131%
Urban Sustainability Directors Network$50,00020%
Business Forward Inc$50,00011%
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc$50,00012%
Citizen Action of New York Inc$50,00013%
Rocky Mountain Institute$50,00010%
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc$50,00011%
Environmental Advocates Ny Inc$50,00021%
Center for Progressive Reform Inc$50,00023%
American Sustainable Business Institute Inc$50,00022%
Unidos Mn$50,000126%
Climate Defenders Action Fund$50,0001n/a
New Jersey Organizing Project Inc$50,000244%
Environmental Health and Justice Campaign$50,000289%
Institute for Market Transformation$49,50011%
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc$47,00021%
American Sustainable Business Council$45,000124%
Plug in America$45,00031%
GreenLatinos$45,00011%
Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation$45,0001100%
Treeage Inc$40,000116%
Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association$40,00011%
Climate Advocates Voces Unidas$40,00025%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$40,00022%
New York Communities For Change Inc$40,00011%
Center for Climate Strategies Inc$40,00015%
Upstate Forever$40,00021%
Schlegel & Associates LLC$40,0001n/a
Blue Planet Foundation$37,00014%
Acadia Center$36,50011%
Southface Energy Institute Inc$35,00010%
Energy Innovation Business Council$35,00016%
Progressnow Colorado$35,00024%
Chargevc-Pa Inc$35,000120%
North Carolina Justice Center$33,00010%
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Foundation$32,00021%
Ecology Center$30,00011%
Metropolitan Planning Council$30,00011%
Clean Fuels Michigan$30,00018%
No Boundaries Coalition Inc$30,00012%
Breach Collective$30,00015%
The Nevada Society of Architects$30,000119%
Co Communities for Climate Action$30,0001n/a
Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum$30,000113%
Solar United Neighbors Inc$27,00011%
Los Angeles Business Council Formerly Known as West la Chamber of Commerce$25,00012%
Coalition for Economic Justice Inc$25,00014%
Vocal-Ny Action Fund Inc$25,00015%
Energy Efficiency Alliance-Nj$25,000138%
NMVC Action Fund$25,00018%
California Public Interest Research Group Inc$25,00012%
The Piedmont Environmental Council$25,00010%
Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc$25,00012%
National Audubon Society Inc$25,00010%
Somos Accion$25,00014%
Long Island Progressive Coalition Inc$25,00015%
Citizens Action Coalition Inc$25,00013%
Clasp$25,00010%
Ground Game Texas$25,00011%
Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate$25,00015%
Arizona Trail Association$25,00021%
Michigan Conservative Energy Forum Advocacy Fund$25,0001n/a
Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance Education Fund$25,000112%
Gencleo Action Fund Inc$25,000165%
Nm Native Vote$25,00019%
Michigan Enviromental Council$25,00011%
Make the Road New York$25,00010%
Earthjustice Action$25,00011%
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation$25,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$20,00010%
Faith in Action Fund$20,00011%
North Carolina Building Performance Asso$20,0001n/a
Strong Future Maryland Inc$20,000184%
Sustainable Business Education Initiative Inc$20,000112%
NAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119$20,00016%
Good Business Colorado$20,00014%
US Green Building Council TX Chapter$20,00019%
Committee to Inform Voters on Issues & Candidates (Civic)$20,000114%
One Apia Nevada$20,00013%
Nebraska Conservation Voters$20,00012%
Texas SolarStorage Association$20,00014%
Mdv Solar Energy Industry Association Dba Chessa$17,00013%
Laci Impact$17,0001n/a
Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota$17,00024%
Greater Indiana Clean Cities$17,00023%
The Organizing Alliance$15,0001n/a
Energy Efficiency Business Coalition$15,00017%
Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans$15,000114%
Active Transporation Now$12,0001n/a
Mothers Out Front Inc$10,00010%
Isaiah$10,00010%
Verde Inc$10,00010%
Mi Familia Vota$10,00012%
Renew Wisconsin Inc$10,00011%
Western Leaders Network$10,00014%
Colorado Fiscal Institute$10,00011%
New Mexico Wild Action Fund$10,00012%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$10,00010%
Mt Mountain Mamas$10,00015%
To Nizhoni Ani$10,00011%
Hoosier Environmental Council Inc$10,00011%
Renew Missouri Advocates$10,00012%
Partnership for Working Families Action Fund$10,0001n/a
Maryland Public Interest Research Group Inc$10,000116%
Consumers for Dental Choice Inc$10,00011%
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians$7,50010%
Clean Fuels Ohio$6,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Energy Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 45 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $6,065,250 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTides Advocacy: $3,945,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetConservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc: $2,171,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetConservatives for a Clean Energy Future: $1,835,750 over 6y, 91% of budgetCounterspark Inc: $1,729,000 over 6y, 84% of budgetNevada Conservation League: $1,518,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetWestern Conservation Action: $1,418,531 over 7y, 17% of budgetCeres Inc: $1,382,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetEnvironment California Inc: $1,378,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetSierra Club: $1,299,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for American Progress Action Fund: $1,250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCalifornia Environmental Voters: $1,160,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetIllinois Environmental Council General Fund: $994,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetConservation Voters of Sc: $980,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetThe Michigan Environmental Council Action Fund: $849,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetFaith in Place Action Fund: $815,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetLocal Jobs & Economic Development Fund Inc: $800,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Action Fund: $749,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund: $740,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetOhio Citizen Action: $720,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetConservation Colorado: $675,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetAmerica Works USA: $625,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetFederation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters: $625,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetPennsylvania United: $620,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMichigan League of Conservation Voters Inc: $611,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetEnvironment America Inc: $548,125 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetElectrification Coalition Alliance Inc: $543,138 over 4y, 97% of budgetConservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $540,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Action: $500,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetJobs for Michigan: $500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetBlack Environmental Leaders Action Fund: $487,370 over 4y, 92% of budgetClean Power Campaign: $487,250 over 4y, 38% of budgetAdvanced Energy United Inc: $455,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetSouthwest Energy Efficiency Project: $446,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetAssociation for Energy Affordability Inc: $430,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNrdc Action Fund Inc: $422,050 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetKeystone Energy Efficiency Alliance: $413,000 over 7y, 47% of budgetCitizens Utility Board: $404,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetOhio Environmental Council Action Fund: $402,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetPotential Energy Action Network Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetVote Solar: $392,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetConservation Voters New Mexico: $390,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Conservation Network: $387,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetThe Utility Reform Network: $380,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSolon Center For Research And Publishing: $377,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetPower Coalition for Electoral Justice: $350,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetUtility Action Alliance: $350,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetChesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund Inc: $340,000 over 4y, 58% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

United States Energy FoundationCA142.7× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund · The Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Tides Advocacy · League of Conservation Voters Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Western Conservation Action · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · America Votes · Nrdc Action Fund Inc · Green Advocacy Project

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Energy Action Fund

How much does Energy Action Fund give?
Energy Action Fund reported 152 grants totaling $20,027,829 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 133 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Energy Action Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (98%), Employment (1%), Public Benefit (1%).
Who are Energy Action Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: League of Conservation Voters Inc ($6.1M), Tides Advocacy ($3.9M), Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc ($2.2M).
Does Energy Action Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Energy Action Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Sixteen Thirty Fund, The Energy Foundation.
Where is Energy Action Fund based?
Energy Action Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 291 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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