Ohio · Nonprofit
GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE
GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance does
Mission
To facilitate investment in energy efficiency and solar for homeowners, non-profit organizations, and commercial building owners through outreach and education, project management, and financing solutions.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance performed work primarily related to the development of energy efficiency programs, renewable energy programs and energy financing programs for residential and commercial property owners. Historically, the energy alliance was funded primarily from a grant from the u.s. Department of energy better buildings neighborhood program but increasingly the energy alliance generates funding from other grants, contracts and also from program income related to its energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. During 2020, the energy alliance programs included multiple residential energy assessment programs, management of efficiency incentive programs, initiating solar energy programs, commercial property assessed clean energy (pace) programs and residential energy finance programs.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $805k (−54%).
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: 2017 45% · 2018 43% · 2019 44% · 2020 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE’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
GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
100% 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 GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% — 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
GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Gc-Help LLC · disregarded
- Gcea Revolving Loan Fund LLC · disregarded
- Energize Kentucky LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE: 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 GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER CINCINNATI ENERGY ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 3 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