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BLUEENERGY

BLUEENERGY (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $631,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($394,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$630k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$631k
Net assets
$709k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Blueenergy does

Mission

blueEnergy works for a more equitable and sustainable world. blueEnergy does this by creating opportunities for sustainable development in severely marginalized communities and by developing leaders working internationally for a more equitable, sustainable world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Holistic community development, primarily on the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS) of Nicaragua and Ethiopia. Renewable energy, clean water, food security, and other basic services were delivered to over over 3,000 beneficiaries in 8 communities in Nicaragua and Ethiopia in 2024. Over 180,000 people in 30 communities reached since founding in 2004 through 2024.

    $415,730 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Global Leadership Program - served over 400 international volunteers and interns through 2024.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Network Building - Renovables and WindEmpowerment. Renovables is a national renewable energy association in Nicaragua; its 32 institutional members represent over 80% of all renewable energy production in the country and work together to advance the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the country. WindEmpowerment is a global association that supports the development of locally built wind turbines for sustainable rural electrification and has 33 institutional members and 357 individual participants.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $415,730.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($488k) Net assets 100 ($971k)2021 Revenue 25 ($285k) Expenses 102 ($496k) Net assets 78 ($757k)2022 Revenue 43 ($483k) Expenses 96 ($466k) Net assets 80 ($777k)2023 Revenue 28 ($317k) Expenses 116 ($567k) Net assets 55 ($529k)2024 Revenue 56 ($630k) Expenses 92 ($451k) Net assets 73 ($709k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (56)Expenses (92)Net assets (73)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $783k to $536k (−32%).

$982k
$764k
$783k
$536k
$717k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLUEENERGY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$647k
’20
−$211k
’21
$16k
’22
−$250k
’23
$180k
’24
8.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Madeleine Bouton

Executive Director, Director, Secretary

Board chair

Mathias Craig

Chairman, Treasurer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed108889
Joined·+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·2000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 BLUEENERGY’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

BLUEENERGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 BLUEENERGY.

62%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 75% · 2020 69% · 2021 88% · 2022 78% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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.

How long its funders stay

33% of BLUEENERGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of BLUEENERGY'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 $71k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states.

NY
MA
IN
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUEENERGY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · above the median
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like BLUEENERGY

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUEENERGY?
BLUEENERGY (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $631,451 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($394,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BLUEENERGY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $631,451 in grants to BLUEENERGY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUEENERGY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $394,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUEENERGY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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