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Utility Information Alliance
Charitable - Research and Education Related to Climate Policies
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $543k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | $515,000 |
| Community Climate Collaborative Inc | $400,000 |
| CUB Consumer Education | $300,000 |
| Citizens Utility Board of Michigan | $250,000 |
| Illinois PIRG Education Fund | $228,000 |
| Tides CenterDetroit Action Education Fund | $125,000 |
| Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $100,000 |
| Faith in Place | $90,000 |
| Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota | $15,000 |
| Vote Solar | $15,000 |
| American Council for an Energy-Efficient | $15,000 |
| National Resources Defense Council | $15,000 |
| Evergreen Collaborative | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $715k · revenue 0%
- CCCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND2× · 2024–2025 · $600k · revenue 0%
- IPILLINOIS PIRG EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2024–2025 · $428k · revenue +48% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $400k · revenue +75%
- CUCITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $250k · revenue +832%
- MLMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue +76%
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.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
The citizens utility board of ohio (cub ohio) works on behalf of residential and small business utility customers. with membership across the state, cub ohio works for cheaper bills, reliable service, transparency, consumer rights, and…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Climate power is working to ensure political, social, and economic progress on climate by winning the politics of climate.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Clean energy works accelerates inclusive investments that open the clean energy economy to all.
Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.
The center helps governments and their stakeholders tackle climate change issues
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Utility Board of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PIRG EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PLACE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
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 · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Climate Imperative Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · New Venture Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Utility Information Alliance 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.
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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