Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM
MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,506,711 to it, the largest being Conservative Energy Network ($1,287,711). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,134 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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.
- United States Energy Foundationshared funders
- Clean Future Forum Incportfolio match
- Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forumportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
68% of MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $190k → $198k.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM’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
MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, 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.
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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United States Energy Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 270 organizations that share your funders
- Clean Future Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Governance and Sustainable Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Clean Power Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Government Leadership Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for International Environmental Law Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deployus Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Enviromental Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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 MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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 MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM: 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 MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM?
- MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,506,711 to it, the largest being Conservative Energy Network ($1,287,711). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,506,711 in grants to MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM?
- Conservative Energy Network is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA CONSERVATIVE ENERGY FORUM 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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