· Public charity
Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc
Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k10 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $53,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $48,098 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE | $40,025 |
| AGRICYCLE GLOBAL INC | $30,000 |
| MESODYNE INC | $25,000 |
| ACCELERATE WIND LLC | $22,500 |
| ELEKTRIFI TECHNOLOGIES INC | $20,000 |
| OMEGA GRID LLC | $20,000 |
| CLOCWORKS INC | $20,000 |
| STEAM ENERGY LABS INC | $20,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Wisconsin Madison4× · 2017–2020 · $208k
- MUMarquette University4× · 2017–2020 · $123k · revenue +46%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN3× · 2018–2020 · $109k
Funded once
- NLNOVOMOTO LLCone grant, 2018 · $31k
- CEClearflame Engines Incone grant, 2019 · $30k
- SSSWITCHED SOURCE LLCone grant, 2018 · $28k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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