· Public charity
Western Energy Freedom Action
Our mission is to enable the delivery of low-cost electricity and energy freedom to the west through an efficient and integrated grid system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION | $450,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $80,000 |
| STATE SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| FIVE | $14,000 |
| WESTERN INTERSTATE ENERGY BOARD | $7,205 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +147% since the first grant, against +131% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k 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
- POPOWER ON PAC2× · 2022–2023 · $718k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +147%
- DGDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
Funded once
- PAPA ALLIANCE ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +72%
- NANEVADA ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +63%
- LOLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +131%
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.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Fund for states is dedicated to building a democracy that works for every voter. we work with state and local election officials and community organizations to educate the public, combat disinformation, and restore trust in the electoral…
Lwvus, a nonpartisan organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase the understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.
The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
To strengthen democracy in the United States through an assessment of US voting systems and US election administration from the perspective of global best practices.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Energy Freedom Association and the most unlike its peers is Justice for Nc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PA ALLIANCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR NC ↗
- Who funds STATE SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ENERGY AND WATER INSTITUTE ↗
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: State Engagement Fund · Sixteen Thirty 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 Western Energy Freedom Action 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Western Energy Freedom Action?
Find your warmest path to Western Energy Freedom Action through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.