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Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc

To evolve the energy system to meet the needs of the future.

$353k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $198k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEETLABS INCORPORATED$97,875
TOWN OF LEXINGTON$50,000
PARISH OF ST PETER'S CHURCH$50,000
NEW GARDEN PARK INC$25,000
TOWN OF DEERFIELD$25,000
CITY OF SOMERVILLE$25,000
LOWELL HOUSING AUTHORITY$25,000
CITY OF GLOUCESTER$25,000
TOWN OF ASHLAND$10,000
GREEN-NEWTON$10,000
TOWN OF ACTON$10,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GREEN-NEWTON: $10k → 8%CITY OF GLOUCESTER: $25k → 10%NEW GARDEN PARK INC: $25k → 11%TOWN OF DEERFIELD: $25k → 14%TOWN OF ACTON: $10k → 8%PARISH OF ST PETER'S CHURCH: $50k → 10%TOWN OF LEXINGTON: $50k → 8%LOWELL HOUSING AUTHORITY: $25k → 8%HEETLABS INCORPORATED: $98k → 8%TOWN OF ASHLAND: $10k → 8%CITY OF SOMERVILLE: $25k → 8%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.

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.

03Your field
03the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 11 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARISH OF ST PETER'S CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherPARISH OF ST PETER'S CHURCHCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $50,000 · OtherCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARYLOWELL HOUSING AUTHORITY — $25,000 · OtherLOWELL HOUSING AUTHORITYTOWN OF DEERFIELD MASSACHUSETTS — $25,000 · OtherTOWN OF DEERFIELD MASSACHUSETTSGloucester Public Schools — $25,000 · OtherGloucester Public SchoolsCity of Somerville — $25,000 · OtherCity of SomervilleTOWN OF ASHLAND — $10,000 · OtherTOWN OF ACTON — $10,000 · OtherHEETLabs Inc — $97,875 · EnvironmentHEETLabs IncGreen Newton Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentGreen Newton IncNEW GARDEN PARK INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$220,000Environment$107,875Community Improvement$25,000

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 budgetHEETLabs Inc — $97,875 over 1y, 72% of budgetNEW GARDEN PARK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreen Newton Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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.

  • Who funds HEETLabs Inc
  • Who funds NEW GARDEN PARK INC
  • Who funds Green Newton Inc

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Technology and Civic Life

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 Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc 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
2021222324
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 17%
  • New Garden Park Inc17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2024

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.

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How do I get to Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc?

Find your warmest path to Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 11 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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