· Public charity
Utility Information Alliance
Charitable - Research and Education Related to Climate Policies
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| National Resources Defense Council | $15,000 |
| Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota | $15,000 |
| American Council for an Energy-Efficient | $15,000 |
| Vote Solar | $15,000 |
| Evergreen Collaborative | $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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
13 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.
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.
- 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 Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Utility Information Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Utility Information Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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