Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT
MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Project does
Mission
To diversify representation and increase economic participation, leverage and redistribute resources and power, deepen the interpersonal relationships, and prioritize all asepcts of solar development with and for black and brown skinned folk to the explicit primary benefit of black and brown skinned folks and the development of their wealth.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mnseip began a new chaper as of december 2022 redefining its mission and surrounding activities. The goal and work of the organization is set around the following: to diversify representation and increase economic participation, leverage and redistribute resources and power, deepen the interpersonal relationships, and prioritize all aspects of solar development with and for black and brown skinned folk to the explicit primary benefit of black and brown skinned folks and the development of their wealth. Diversify representation and increase economic participation of black and brown skinned folk across all sectors of the solar industry ecosystem in minnesota to be in alignment with the representation of our future work force, public schools. Leverage and redistribute the existing concentration of social, political, and knowledge power capital in minnesota's solar industry in collaboration, in solidarity, and to the benefit of, black and brown skinned folk. Deepen the interpersonal relationships between black, brown, and white skinned folk within minnesota's solar industry. Prioritize all aspects of solar development (siting, acquisition, design, engineering, sourcing, training,…
$46,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,000.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT’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 SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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 MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
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 SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT: 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 MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT?
- MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,500 in grants to MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES PROJECT 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), 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