· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
Foster an international, industry-wide collaborative community that delivers innovative applied research, and develops the means for stakeholders to leverage/implement the research.
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…
The fuels institute/transportation energy institute will deliver comprehensive and balanced research and analysis concerning fuels, vehicles, and related policy issues in order to create a market in which consumers can safely,…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The edison electric institute(eei)is the association that represents all u.s. investor-owned electric companies. our members provide electricity for nearly 250 million americans, and operate in all 50 states and the district of columbia.…
NECPUC promotes effective state regulation through the dissemination and exchange of information, including opportunities to study utility and regulatory issues, and by providing forums for NE regulators to learn from and exchange ideas…
The northwest power pool ("nwpp") mission is to support electric reliability by providing cost-effective reliablity services, developed in cooperation with members, to member organizations across the west.
The mission of nreca research is to engage in privately funded scientific research activities focused on supporting, sustaining, and improving the electrical grid of the future.
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
Nreca's purpose is to engage in the compilation and dissemination of information with respect to rural electrification and the furnishing of other services to rural electric cooperatives and others in connection with the coordination,…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Bigger dots raise more.
- Energy Sector Security Consortium: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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