How much did Green Mountain Energy Sun Club grant in FY2021?

Food & Nutrition$339kHousing & Shelter$330kCommunity Improvement$296kHuman Services$263kAnimals$239kEducation$233kInternational$205kPhilanthropy$200kReligion$169kOther$1.0M

02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

$10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
$250k+1 grant · $464k

$130,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

Make-A-Wish North Texas$463,500
Habitat for Humanity$200,476
Westchase District Community Fund$200,000
Houston Independent School District Foundation$179,664
Brother's Brother Foundation$178,547
Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments In$169,000
Wildlife Conservatory Society$144,088
City Park Foundation$130,000
South Dallas Fair Park Innercity Community Develop$129,438
Recipe for Success$128,320
New York Sun Works$115,213
Regional Plan Association$114,686
The Creating Landscapes Learning Center Inc$108,600
Young Audiences Inc of Houston$50,000
Global Links$26,000

02The need

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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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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 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.

Houston Parks Board

To expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy

Houston Botanic Garden

Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.

Environment

The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The HPB Foundation provides HPB with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment

TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion

Hermann Park Conservancy

The Conservancy enhances and maintains Hermann Park (one of Houston's most historic and popular green spaces), manages impressive renovations of the Park, and is responsible for extensive reforestation efforts and maintenance initiatives…

Environment

Trees for Houston

Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.

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Greenspace Dallas

Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.

Environment

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.

Environment

Urban Harvest Inc

Urban Harvest encourages community, good nutrition, and sustainability through the education and support of organic gardening. Urban Harvest's vision is a healthier city where everyone has access to locally grown, nutritious food harvested…

Environment

Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement

Trinity Park Conservancy

Fulfilling the promise of the Trinity River as the natural gathering place for Dallas.

Community Improvement

Bexar Land Trust Inc dba

Protect undeveloped land and urban green spaces. Educate the public about the environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

12%

10,092/86,424

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.

04the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

14/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,610,913Food & Nutrition$339,320Housing & Shelter$329,914Community Improvement$295,986Human Services$262,800Animals$238,688Education$233,045

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.

Centerpoint Energy Foundation IncTX15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Green Mountain Energy Sun Club 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.

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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.

04Through 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: The Creating Landscapes Learning Center Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800694657 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 The Creating Landscapes Learning Center Inc, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Green Mountain Energy Sun Club?

Find your warmest path to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club 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.

Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club?

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Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club?

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