Massachusetts · Public charity
Citizens Energy Corporation
CITIZENS ENERGY CORPORATION provides low cost energy services to low-income families in the u.s. By developing successful energy projects and using the profits to fund assistance programs.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $848k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $262,261
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $122M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Citizens Energy Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $742k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $848k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $1.2M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $707k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $328k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $45k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.1M | 94% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $165k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $213k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc | $799,449 | 2 | 6% |
| Neighborhood House Assn | $511,656 | 1 | 0% |
| Vineyard Power Development Fund Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | $354,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Outdoor Outreach | $268,063 | 1 | 9% |
| San Diego Canyonlands Inc | $262,261 | 1 | 10% |
| Imperial Valley Food Bank | $180,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Indian Health Council Inc | $166,306 | 1 | 0% |
| Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe | $135,915 | 1 | n/a |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Citizens Energy Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Sempra Foundation · New Gold Mesquite Foundation Inc · Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The California Wellness Foundation
How this is measured
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About Citizens Energy Corporation
- How much does Citizens Energy Corporation give?
- Citizens Energy Corporation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $848,176, out of $2,635,482 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Citizens Energy Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Citizens Energy Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc ($799k), Neighborhood House Assn ($512k), Vineyard Power Development Fund Inc ($450k).
- Does Citizens Energy Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Citizens Energy Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Alliance Healthcare Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
- Where is Citizens Energy Corporation based?
- Citizens Energy Corporation is based in MA.
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