Minnesota · Nonprofit
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,142,390 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($8,150,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What BlueGreen Alliance Foundation does
Mission
The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) conducts research and educates the public and media about solutions to environmental challenges that create economic opportunities for the American people. Pursuant to this mission and its interorganizational agreement with the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), BGAF supports a variety of programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building a Clean, Prosperous and Equitable Clean Economy - BGAF works to educate the media and the public about the need to grow a clean, prosperous and equitable economy. We can address the threat of climate change while creating good-paying jobs. BGAF offers strategies for investing in key industries and initiative-renewable energy, energy efficiency, modern transportation systems, and advanced vehicle technology to create good jobs in manufacturing, construction, education and other sectors.
$3,604,766 spentof which $2,000 as grants51% of program spendingClimate Change & Clean Energy Jobs - BGAF provides the American labor movement with grassroots education about climate change and other environmental problems. BGAF furnishes direct education to rank and file union members about the link between climate change solutions, job creation, job quality, and job security.
$2,249,643 spentof which $100,000 as grants32% of program spendingClean Energy Manufacturing - BGAF works to provide communities, businesses, and policy makers with the tools they need to increase clean manufacturing and transition existing manufacturing capacity to meet the needs of the clean energy economy. Its Building Clean program is aimed at increasing demand for U.S. made energy-efficiency products, increasing awareness of the harmful chemicals used in energy efficiency housing products, and identifying the supply chain, manufacturing and market opportunities. BGAF's EV Jobs Hub luminates not only where new electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing jobs are being announced, but also what those jobs will look like.
$932,863 spent13% of program spendingHealth Initiatives-The Health Initiatives program is a national grassroots educational initiative to reduce workplace and community to toxic substances; and to promote occupational safety and health as a fundamental, on-the-job right for all working people.
$280,012 spent$51,265 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,067,284.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.2M to $10M (+67%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 11% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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
Abby Tinsley
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $5.9M.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.4M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BlueGreen Alliance Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 BlueGreen Alliance Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 31% · 2020 39% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
48% of BlueGreen Alliance Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M 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.
Against its field
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BlueGreen Alliance Foundation
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BlueGreen Alliance Foundation: 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 BlueGreen Alliance Foundation?
- BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,142,390 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($8,150,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BlueGreen Alliance Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $36,142,390 in grants to BlueGreen Alliance Foundation, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BlueGreen Alliance Foundation?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BlueGreen Alliance Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing