Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC
THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Edison Electric Institute Inclocalportfolio match
- City First Enterprises Inclocal
- American Clean Power Associationportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 4% · 2019 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $150k.
From the IRS filings of THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Edison Electric Institute Inclocalportfolio matchDC · funds 91 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- American Clean Power Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Gas Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Croplife Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Multiplierportfolio 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 THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Grid 21 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC: 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 THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC?
- THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $368,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $368,000 in grants to THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing