Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY POWER
COMMUNITY POWER (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,970,400 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($1,094,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Community Power does
Mission
Community Power educates and activates the residents of minnesota cities to create clean, local, equitable, affordable & reliable energy systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Power provides public education, movement building organizing, and new strategies for communities to take charge of their energy future. This includes nonpartisan candidate forums, organizing frontline organizations around new models for clean energy access, and supporting cities in maximizing the impact of their equitable climate policy.
$236,534 spent$49,284 earned by the program26% of program spendingMinnesota environmental justice table aims to advance racially and economically just climate solutions, including closure of trash burning facilities and the advancement of equitable local and state climate policy needs.
$665,819 spent$3,700 earned by the program74% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $902,353.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $267k to $1.1M (+313%).
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 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 16% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMMUNITY POWER’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 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $785k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 COMMUNITY POWER’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
COMMUNITY POWER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
87% 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 COMMUNITY POWER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 36% · 2022 32% · 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
40% of COMMUNITY POWER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
COMMUNITY POWER draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMMUNITY POWER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY POWER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 COMMUNITY POWER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 COMMUNITY POWER: 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 COMMUNITY POWER?
- COMMUNITY POWER (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,970,400 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($1,094,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY POWER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,970,400 in grants to COMMUNITY POWER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY POWER?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,094,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY POWER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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