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What it reported doing in 2025

Working toward a clean energy transitionwindustry worked primarily with native sun community power development, a native-led nonprofit based in minneapolis. This work continues our longstanding outreach at the crossroads of rural, underserved communities and clean energy and climate change. In 2025, windustry was honored to continue and successfully complete its program work with native sun community power development, the inter-tribal ev community network, now called electric nation-1, in mn, nd, and sd. The electric nation-2 project in mn, wi and mi was prematurely shut down by the administration. Windustry will continue the completion and closeout reporting requirements for both projects. Electricnation (en) is a tribal-led clean transportation initiative designed and implemented by native sun community power development, in partnership with sage development authority and a consortium of public, private, technical, nonprofit, and cost-match collaborators. The project team's mission was to expand equitable access to electric vehicles (ev's) and public charging across tribal nations in the upper midwest through coordinated deployment, fleet electrification, workforce training, and sustained community engagement. The team implemented a $13.9 million, multistate effort that installed 122 chargers and placed 31 electric vehicles with tribal fleets in Minnesota, North Dakota, and south dakotapositioning en as the region's first inter-tribal ev charging network at this scale.the lisa daniels was the project manager for electric nation and worked closely with the co-principle investigators robert blake, native sun community power development and joseph mcneil standing rock (sage) renewable energy power authority. The project, award no. De- ee0009865 started in march 2022 and was officially completed in november 2025. The project teamoriginally planned todeploy 60 new level 2 charging stations and 55 dc fast chargers; supply 19 electric vehicles; and host at least 52 education/outreach/training events. In the final analysis the project team: managed and tracked installation of 76 new level 2 charging stations (115 ports) and 46 new dc fast chargers (74 ports) across 52 tribal sites in the project's 3 states (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota). Secured and documented $7,201,817 in federal matching dollars primarily provided by 5 key cost-share partners. Deployed 31 light duty evs including 5 ev school/transit buses; 2 medium-duty ev box trucks; 1 ev solar trailer and 1 transport trailer across 15 tribal fleets. Hosted and participated in 74+ outreach/education events across the whole project period reaching more than 23,600 participants; conducted 6 dealership trainings for 75 total attendees, and 7 ride and drives with 96 participants. Trained 42 students via 3 workforce sessions under a train the trainer model. Collected 16-34 months of telematics data across 27 vehicles and 3 evse sites. Provided ev chargers to 12 tribes, engaged with 35+ partner and collaborating organizations, and coordinated with 23 primary vendors and 16+ additional vendors across the whole of the project. Provided 31 vehicles to standing rock sioux tribe and red lake band of chippewa indians.also, windustry assisted with drafting proposals, developing new programs and writing grant reports related to workforce and sustainable solutions which include solar, wind, storage and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and other technologies. Windustry's and native sun's missions are complimentary.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 55.4%; rating input score 55
• Program expense ratio: 59.5%; rating input score 59

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings