California · Nonprofit
HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION
HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $171,090 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK ($171,090). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mammoth Lakes Tourismlocal
- Western Resource Advocatesportfolio match
- Conservation Colorado Education Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
1% of HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $83k.
From the IRS filings of HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Mammoth Lakes TourismlocalCA · funds 21 organizations near you
- Western Resource Advocatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Colorado Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Day Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forever Our Rivers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christensen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shugar Magic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Truckee Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HIGH SIERRA ENERGY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $171,090 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK ($171,090). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $171,090 in grants to HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $171,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing