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Portland Energy Conservation Inc

PECI IS DEDICATED TO THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION, AND CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THAT HELP CONSUMERS AND BUSINESSES USE ENERGY RESOURCES IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE MANNER.

$397k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$217k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Environment$2.4MHousing & Shelter$500kCommunity Improvement$451kCivil Rights$330kPhilanthropy$55kRecreation & Sports$25k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $217k
$38,718
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NW ENERGY COALITION$217,000
AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NW INDIANS$45,545
IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES$38,718
NORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER$33,000
VERDE INC$33,000
SEEDING JUSTICE$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $39k → 8%PORTLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FUND: $73k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 10 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +122% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$3.1M
$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationEmploymentSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NE
    NW ENERGY COALITION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $816k · revenue +72% · 27% of their budget
  • EA
    EARTH ADVANTAGE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $563k · revenue +389%
  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
    3× · 2019–2022 · $560k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $190k
  • OE
    Oregon Environmental Council
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -26%
  • OF
    Oregon for Climate Action
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -25% · 71% of their budget
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
2
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
3
Earth Day Oregon
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4
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

—
5
Oregon Business Alliance for Climate

Part III-Organization's Primary Exempt Purpose-Our mission is to advance urgent,ambitious, equitable climate policies and programs designed to help spur innovation andeconomic opportunity while effectively and responsibly reducing…

Environment
6
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
7
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
8
Northwest Energy Efficiency Council

To eliminate carbon emissions from building energy use through market based thought leadership, education, and advocacy.

—
9
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
10
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
—
11
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
12
Novara Energy Alliance

Novara Energy Alliance brings people, ideas, and investment together to solve the Inland Northwest's most pressing energy and related water challenges - turning innovation into real-world solutions that are resilient, affordable and built…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Solutions; the most unlike its peers is Charitable Partnership Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NW ENERGY COALITION: $816,080 · OtherNW ENERGY COALITIONCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $560,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NW INDIANS: $203,990 · OtherAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NW INDIANSCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $190,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $148,500 · OtherAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUNDWVLP: $148,005 · OtherWVLP+6 more: $208,489 · Other+6 moreEARTH ADVANTAGE: $563,000 · Housing & ShelterEARTH ADVANTAGEOregon Environmental Council: $100,000 · EnvironmentSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $100,000 · EnvironmentRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST: $60,000 · EnvironmentOREGON SOLAR ENERGY EDUCATION FUND: $31,720 · EnvironmentVerde Inc: $269,420 · EmploymentCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $162,171 · Social ScienceIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $112,129 · Human ServicesOregon for Climate Action: $100,000 · Education
Other$2,275,064Housing & Shelter$563,000Environment$291,720Employment$269,420Social Science$162,171Human Services$112,129Education$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNW ENERGY COALITION: $816,080 over 5y, 27% of budgetEARTH ADVANTAGE: $563,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $560,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetVerde Inc: $269,420 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $162,171 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $148,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $112,129 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOregon for Climate Action: $100,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST: $60,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK: $55,489 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER: $33,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOREGON SOLAR ENERGY EDUCATION FUND: $31,720 over 1y, 20% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Bullitt FoundationUnited States Energy …Seeding JusticeThe Collins FoundationClimate SolutionsOregon Environmental …Northwest Health Foun…Northwest Area Founda…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Wiancko Charitable Fo…
Meyer Memorial TrustOR33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Collins Foundation · Climate Solutions · Oregon Environmental Council · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Northwest Area Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Wiancko Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Portland Energy Conservation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Portland Energy Conservation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Earth Advantage: 13% of income from government
  • Oregon Solar Energy Education Fund: 7% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center: 2% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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