Minnesota · Nonprofit
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,589,297 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,722,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Clean Grid Alliance (Fna Wind on the Wires) does
Mission
Our mission is to advance renewable energy in the midwest by applying technical expertise and building support to expand markets. We focus on educating key decision makers through technical, communications and media work, and public outreach. Cga brings the best of its organizational capacity to capture renewable energy opportunities: visionary thinking and doing, continued growth in technical expertise, strong working relationships with the wind, solar and energy storage industries, an understanding of state-by-state regulatory and policy challenges and opportunities. Cga works to interconnect renewable energy to provide local economic benefits and to reduce carbon emissions.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Public education. To encourage broad acceptance of clean energy, cga provides reliable, fact-based information about renewables in the midwest. Cga had 1990 media placements, 40 media interviews, 26 lte/op-ed placements and 7 public news stories, resulting in a half-billion impressions nationwide. Organizational sustainability. Cga attracts new members and successfully engages 74 existing members. Cga staff aligns priorities of ngo and for-profit members and builds coalitions for outsized impact.
$1,992,365 spent$316,000 earned by the program73% of program spendingTransmission. Transmission is key to integrating renewables on the grid. Cga advocates for renewable energy through leadership and stakeholder engagement at miso (midwest grid operator), stimulating favorable market conditions, and activating our members for transmission planning. We led efforts that resulted in miso approving the nation's largest group of transmission line projects ever via historic tranche 2.1.
$426,088 spent$67,580 earned by the program16% of program spendingPolicy and regulatory advocacy. Cga's focus on implementation ensures that policy wins are transformative. Cga forges alliances and activates strong networks to advocate for good legislative policies across the region, then intervenes via the regulatory process to uphold clean energy progress. We expanded our regulatory team to take on increased work at state utility commissions. In minnesota, we advanced one of the most significant policy reforms in recent history, accelerating the permit process by 6-9 months. In an era of unprecedented energy demand, we ensure processes are as expedient and efficient as possible. Siting education. Cga delivers credible information about wind, solar and battery storage in rural communities to help foster early project acceptance, including in partnership with the conservative energy network via the land & liberty coalition. Wind 101 and solar 101 eventseducate key decision makers. Videos, targeted ad campaigns, and rural radio stories informs millions of people. This work supported the approval of 5.7 gw of clean energy in the midwest.
$292,678 spent$46,420 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,711,131.
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 $2.8M to $3.9M (+37%).
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: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)’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. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Beth Soholt
Executive director
Board chair
Adam Sokolski
Chairperson/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $270k → $1.3M.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)’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
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 94% · 2019 89% · 2020 74% · 2021 74% · 2022 48% · 2023 73% — 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
43% of CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,018 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,018 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)?
- CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,589,297 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,722,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $8,589,297 in grants to CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES), 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES)?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,722,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 13 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