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Western Energy Freedom Action at a glance

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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.

$579k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.0MEnvironment$542kInternational$80kCivil Rights$75kEducation$50k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION$450,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$80,000
STATE SOLUTIONS$25,000
FIVE$14,000
WESTERN INTERSTATE ENERGY BOARD$7,205
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PA ALLIANCE ACTION: $100k → 22%FIVE: $27k → 11%WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION: $75k → 20%LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $75k → 14%CEWI: $10k → 3%WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION: $450k → 7%WESTERN INTERSTATE ENERGY BOARD: $7k → 12%GLOBAL IMPACT: $80k → 9%NEVADA ALLIANCE: $75k → 13%FIVE: $20k → 11%DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%FIVE: $14k → 11%DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%STATE SOLUTIONS: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NV
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$828k · 3 repeat orgs$867k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +147% since the first grant, against +131% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$828k
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+147%
+131%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Civil RightsEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • PO
    POWER ON PAC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $718k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +147%
  • DG
    DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k

Funded once

  • PA
    PA ALLIANCE ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +72%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +131%
  • NA
    NEVADA ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +63%
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
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
2
Right Vote Inc
Civil Rights
3
Fund for States

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…

Public Benefit
4
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
5
League of Women Voters of the United States

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.

—
6
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
7
Issue One

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.

Public Benefit
8
Northwest Progressive Institute

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…

Civil Rights
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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…

—
10
Election Reformers Network Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
12
America Votes

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Energy Freedom Association; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWER ON PAC: $717,500 · OtherPOWER ON PACNEVADA ALLIANCE: $75,000 · OtherNEVADA ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION+1 more: $7,205 · OtherWESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION: $450,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCI…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $100,000 · Civil RightsPA ALLIANCE ACTIONLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVAT…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES OR…FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION: $60,500 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDE…Global Impact: $80,000 · InternationalJUSTICE FOR NC: $50,000 · EducationSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Other$849,705Environment$460,000Civil Rights$310,500International$80,000Education$50,000Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION: $60,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetJUSTICE FOR NC: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSTATE SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO ENERGY AND WATER INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

State Engagement FundSixteen Thirty Fund
State Engagement FundNC13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Western Energy Freedom Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Energy Freedom Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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.

    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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