Maryland · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT
ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($222,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Alliance for Green Heat does
Mission
The Alliance for Green Heat promotes modern wood and pellet heating systems as a low-carbon sustainable and affordable energy solution. The Alliance works to advance cleaner and more efficient residential heating technology particularly for low and middle-income families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and outreach: Our core purpose is education and outreach which we do through our website newsletter social media webinars and during daily zoom and phone calls with stakeholders.
$2,085 spent0% of program spendingSupporting firewood banks that serve low-income households with heating assistance.
$1,248,656 spentof which $1,139,265 as grants95% of program spendingEmpowering wood heating communities through firewood banks
$62,507 spent5% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,313,248.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $44k to $302k (+581%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 93% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Norbert Senf
Board member and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $46k → $52k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$4.3M
- Department of Energy$125k
- Department of Homeland Security$76k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT?
- ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,800 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($222,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $227,800 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $222,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing