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American Gas Association
AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS | $50,000 |
| NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION | $30,000 |
| NARUC | $28,500 |
| INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOC OF AMERICA | $26,250 |
| COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES | $25,000 |
| CSA GROUP | $25,000 |
| REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC | $22,500 |
| THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC | $20,000 |
| WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS | $20,000 |
| ENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTER | $19,000 |
| CSG WEST | $16,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ICINTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +69%
- TNTHE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +64%
- CFCOLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS4× · 2021–2024 · $207k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- APAMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +6%
- AFALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +145%
- PSPARK STREET STRATEGIESone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ENERGY PROGESS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds The Economic Club of Washington DC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WATERFALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA) ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR CAPITAL FORMATION ↗
- Who funds The Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Bryce Harlow Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF HOME APPLIANCE MANUFACTURERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HOCKEY CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · American Petroleum Institute · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Croplife America · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · National Association of Water Companies
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Gas Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.