How much does American Gas Association give?

American Gas Association reported 34 grants totaling $593,042 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does American Gas Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Public Benefit (23%), Community Improvement (18%).

Who are American Gas Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Partners for Energy Progess ($250k), International Code Council Inc ($222k), The National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition ($216k).

Does American Gas Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Gas Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edison Electric Institute Inc, Nuclear Energy Institute Inc, American Petroleum Institute.

Where is American Gas Association based?

American Gas Association is based in DC.

American Gas Association

American Gas Association at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$593k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.1MCommunity Improvement$837kEducation$257kHealth$112kEmployment$108kHuman Services$101kHousing & Shelter$95kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $48k
$10k–50k25 grants · $445k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$57M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES	$25,000
CSA GROUP	$25,000
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION	$25,000
COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE	$25,000
INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC	$22,500
WESTERN GOVERNORS' ASSOCIATION	$20,000
US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS	$20,000
THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC	$20,000
ENERGY SOLUTIONS CENTER	$19,000
CSG WEST	$16,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 47 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+13%

Still filing today

79%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

IC
INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +69%
TN
THE NATIONAL ENERGY AND UTILITY AFFORDABILITY COALITION
8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +64%
CF
COLORADANS FOR ENERGY ACCESS
4× · 2021–2024 · $207k · revenue +53%

Funded once

AP
AMERICAN PUBLIC GAS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +6%
AF
ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +159%
PS
PARK STREET STRATEGIES
one grant, 2020 · $50k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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. we are committed to…

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National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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American Council of Engineering Companies

The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.

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North American Electric Reliability Corp

The north american electric reliability corporation (nerc) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.

Community Improvement

Natural Gas Supply Association

The object and purpose of the association is to promote sound federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the natural gas industry, the equitable and effective administration of such laws and regulations, and to educate and inform…

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Pipeline Research Council International Inc

Foster an international, industry-wide collaborative community that delivers innovative applied research, and develops the means for stakeholders to leverage/implement the research.

Community Improvement

American Clean Power Association

Acp is the voice of companies from across the clean power sector that are powering america's future & providing cost-effective solutions to the climate crisis while creating jobs, spurring massive investment in the u.s. economy, & driving…

Community Improvement

National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

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American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech

Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit

EnerGeo Alliance

EnerGeo Alliance optimizes the business and regulatory climate and enhances public understanding to support a strong, viable energy geoscience industry essential to discovering and delivering the world's energy resources.EnerGeo Alliance's…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Association of State Energy Officials; the most unlike its peers is Hispanics in Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/63

Grantees still filing

48/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,633,979Community Improvement$851,900Environment$352,840Public Benefit$238,115Education$220,000Housing & Shelter$216,000Philanthropy$161,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Edison Electric Institute IncDC65.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Gas Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Gas Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home