South Carolina · Nonprofit
Fairewinds Energy Education Corp
Fairewinds Energy Education Corp (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,694 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($126,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $-49013
What Fairewinds Energy Education Corp does
Mission
Fairewinds Energy Education shines a spotlight on the inequities and Environmental Justice Issues facing communities worldwide. Community-volunteer citizen-scientists and our scientific colleagues conduct research, analyze radioactively-contaminated areas, and present truthful data that is transparent and free to all. For example, did you know that nanoparticles and microparticles of radiation leak from uranium mines, nuclear fuel fabrication facilities, waste dumps, weapons sites, old test sites for atomic bombs and nuclear weapons, and operating atomic power reactors and contaminate communities worldwide? Moreover, in 2022, the world learned firsthand via the war in Ukraine that fragile nuclear power plants are as great a risk as nuclear weapons.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During 2021 and 2022, Fairewinds Energy Education developed the Let's Measure It Program and laid thegroundwork to help contaminated communitiesstop the nuclear pollution of their schools, homes, and neighborhoods.Many communities host the world's oldest operating atomic power reactors,World War II bomb manufacturing plants, and nuclear waste dumps. Our research in this area is legacy work at Fairewinds Energy Education. During the last several years, the federal government has lessened many regulations restricting the movement of radioactivity.Most disturbingly, important federal regulators like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Defense (DOD) have removed stringent government oversight on atomic power,nuclear waste, and nuclear industry and fuel manufacturing. These changes by our government make nuclear radioactivity appear innocuous and risk the health and safety of millions of children and families who live, work, or attend school near these toxic radioactive facilities.Did you know there is no technology available to clean up radiation released at nuclear and atomic sites? Radioactive microparticles of dust and dirt…
$35,267 spent100% of program spendingProgram Research:4.1. Fairewinds wrapped its Woolsey Fire Project during the fall of 2021. We began the project at the end of 2018 with Dr. Marco Kaltofen of Boston Chemical Data and PSRL.A. (Physicians for Social Responsibility LosAngeles) to assess radioactivity releases emanating from the 2018 California Woolsey Fire.On October 8, 2021, the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity published its peer-reviewed article Radioactive Microparticles Related to the Woolsey Fire in Simi Valley, CA co-authored by Dr. Marco Kaltofen, president of Boston Chemical Corp, Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer for Fairewinds Associates, Inc,and Maggie Gundersen.o https://www.fairewinds.org/peer-reviewed-papers/radioactivemicroparticles-related-to-the-woolsey-fire-in-simi-valley-ca.o https://www.fairewinds.org/woolsey-fire-collection/science-at-its-bestThe Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), an atomic reactor test lab with an undisclosed meltdown in 1959, was the epicenter of California's Woolsey Fire. Located about 35 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) is radioactively contaminated. The Woolsey Wildfire and subsequent wind and weather have spread toxic radiation emanating…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,267.
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 2017 to 2018, from $112k to $50k (−55%).
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.
100% of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Robert Manning
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $96k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Fairewinds Energy Education Corp’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
Fairewinds Energy Education Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
Fairewinds Energy Education Corp draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44 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
Fairewinds Energy Education Corp's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,848 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Fairewinds Energy Education Corp?
- Fairewinds Energy Education Corp (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,694 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($126,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fairewinds Energy Education Corp have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $193,694 in grants to Fairewinds Energy Education Corp, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $126,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fairewinds Energy Education Corp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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