· Public charity
Rocky Mountain Institute
Transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $2,858,763 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,132,236 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,273,473 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADL Ventures LLC | $603,004 |
| Association for Energy Affordability Inc | $331,437 |
| GridLab Inc | $300,000 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | $160,000 |
| Potential Energy Coalition Inc | $152,500 |
| Signetron Inc | $132,482 |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | $112,114 |
| David Baker Architects | $110,068 |
| US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (PIRG) | $100,000 |
| American Lung Association | $100,000 |
| Third Way Institute | $100,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California | $95,092 |
| Hour Car | $86,326 |
| Power-to-X Analytics LLC | $65,000 |
| Climate Strategies Lab LLC dba Industrious Labs | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $2.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Catalytic Finance · RMI China · Climate Intelligence
Stated purpose: The Global South Program · Climate Aligned Industries · Climate-Aligned Finance
Stated purpose: Carbon-Free Buildings · Climate Aligned Industries · RMI India
Stated purpose: The Global South Program · Carbon-Free Transportation
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +9% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CMCanary Media Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +150% · 59% of their budget
- AFASSOCIATION FOR ENERGY AFFORDABILITY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $938k · revenue +3%
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2023 · $725k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- GLGISTEARTH LLCone grant, 2021 · $815k
PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INCone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue 0%- BDBUILDING DECARBONIZATION COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -35%
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.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Seia is the driving force behind solar energy and storage, building a stronger solar industry to power america through advocacy and education. representing organizations that promote, manufacture, install and support the development of…
The nonpartisan center for climate and energy solutions works to secure a safe and stable climate by accelerating the global transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and a thriving, just, and resilient economy. for over 25 years,…
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Mean Business Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Give Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 75 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.
- Who funds Canary Media Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION POSSIBLE PARTNERSHIP USA INC ↗
- Who funds WE MEAN BUSINESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ENERGY AFFORDABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING DECARBONIZATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BUILDINGS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GridLab Inc ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Carbon Mapper Inc ↗
- Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Potential Energy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PASSIVE HOUSE INSTITUTE US ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PHP ↗
- Who funds HOURCAR ↗
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: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sequoia Climate Foundation · World Resources Institute · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Windward Fund
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 Rocky Mountain Institute 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.
- New Buildings Institute — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Investment Corporation — 15% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Forth Mobility Fund — 7% of income from government
- Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc — 3% 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.