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Grid Alternatives
GRID ALTERNATIVES envisions a rapid, equitable transition to a world powered by renewable energy that benefits everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $4,749,229 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,884,667 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,438 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE POINT MICROGRID | $250,000 |
| TOIYABE INDIAN HEALTH PROJECT INC | $250,000 |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA | $200,000 |
| CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE RADIO | $200,000 |
| GUIDIVILLE RANCHERIA OF CALIFORNIA | $200,000 |
| SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS | $200,000 |
| BAD RIVER TRIBE | $200,000 |
| PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE | $200,000 |
| THREE AFFILIATED TRIBES | $200,000 |
| SOVEREIGN ENERGY | $200,000 |
| DRY CREEK RANCHERIA | $200,000 |
| SAN ILDEFONSO SERVICES LLC | $200,000 |
| MICCOSUKEE CORPORATION | $200,000 |
| WARM SPRINGS POWER & WATER ENTERPRISES | $200,000 |
| SHOSHONE PAIUTE TRIBES | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UTUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE3× · 2019–2023 · $335k · revenue +40%
- NRNATIVE RENEWABLES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $195k · revenue +87%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- SISPOKANE INDIAN HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $498k
- RCRED CLIFF BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA INDIANSone grant, 2023 · $250k
- LLLEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWEone grant, 2023 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Turtle mountain community college is committed to functioning as an autonomous indian controlled college on the turtle mountain chippewa reservation focusing on general studies, undergraduate education, career & technical education,…
California Indian college (cinc), is dedicated to building educational strength and will provide educational opportunities leading to degrees for American Indians and all students with indigenous backgrounds
To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…
White earth tribal and community college, an anishinaabe controlled liberal arts institution of higher education, is dedicated to educational excellence through provision of culturally relevant curriculum, in partnership with students,…
Little priest tribal college is established as an educational institution by the winnebago tribe of nebraska to fulfill the goal of its namesake, chief little priest, "be strong and educate my children".
Education: Building internal infrastructure and internal capacity for emergency management public health and public safety to include homeland security programs and law enforcement programs for any of the 574 Tribal Federally Recognized…
Advancing tribal colleges through collaboration and shared goals. ndtcs leverages the higher education experience by sharing ideas and broadening networks and alliances, toward improving students' outcomes.
We're dedicated to helping Native Americans have access to a quality education, while still preserving their culture and honoring their heritage. Our mission is to provide preparatory programs for youth and financial assistance for those…
Research, develop, and administer social and economic development programs to meet the needs of indian and native american communities and individuals residing in the state of california. also for the conservation and preservation of…
We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…
To provide quality postsecondary educational opportunities for native americans, locally and from throughout the united states. the college will promote community and individual development and perpetuate the cultures of the confederated…
To provide education and instruction in the scholarly study and preservation of indian art to empower creativity and leadership in native arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of the Menominee Nation and the most unlike its peers is Tebughna Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Ndn Collective Inc · Northern California Indian Development Council Inc · Indian Land Tenure Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc · National Indian Health Board · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Resources Legacy Fund · National Association of Tribal Historic Officers Inc · Humboldt Area Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners 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 organization Grid Alternatives 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.
- Miccosukee Corporation — 58% of income from government
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.