· Public charity
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such as energy, telecommunications, water and transportation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $840,487 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,474,574 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $634,087 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $602k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONVERGE STRATEGIES LLC | $237,978 |
| THE CADMUS GROUP LLC | $153,246 |
| PUBLIC SECTOR CONSULTANTS | $90,760 |
| ESTA INTERNATIONAL | $67,650 |
| ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS | $52,052 |
| NEOS GROUP INC | $48,168 |
| JQ RESOURCES LLC | $34,597 |
| PLUGGED IN STRATEGIES | $25,913 |
| E9 INSIGHT | $21,332 |
| THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS | $19,490 |
| JQ RESOURCES LLC | $18,020 |
| JQ RESOURCES LLC | $15,588 |
| ELEVATED ENGAGEMENT | $13,481 |
| HUNTERSTON CONSULTING | $12,825 |
| JQ RESOURCES LLC | $11,977 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $110k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $88k to organizations and $21k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE · TEC
Stated purpose: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS5× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +61%
- CSCONVERGE STRATEGIES LLC6× · 2019–2024 · $667k
- TCTHE CADMUS GROUP LLC5× · 2021–2025 · $430k
Funded once
- EAEXETER ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2017 · $135k
- MCMEISTER CONSULTANTS GROUP INCone grant, 2017 · $119k
- TCTHE CADMUS GROUP LLCone grant, 2019 · $87k
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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To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Association of State Energy Officials and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Market Transformation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 38 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.
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- Who funds NRECA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REGULATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS ↗
- Who funds Institute of Gas Technology ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds Smart Electric Power Alliance ↗
- Who funds REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SECTOR SECURITY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.
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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 National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners 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.
- Energy Sector Security Consortium — 21% of income from government
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.