· Public charity
National Association of Water Companies
Nawc is the trade association for the private water industry that provides educational and informational support to its members, and to those that work within the industry.
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.
The 6 grants below total $97,606 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,861 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,255 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF STATES INC | $40,000 |
| NARUC | $25,000 |
| NASUCA | $10,000 |
| American Gas Association | $9,106 |
| Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners | $7,500 |
| NMSU Foundation | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 COMMISSIONERS7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +61%
- ECEnvironmental Council of States Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +35%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA)3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CFCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +116%
- MAMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Incone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +14%
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.
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 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…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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.
To promote policies assuring reliable electricity supplies for all.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is an educational nonprofit working to accelerate the transition to a clean, affordable, and resilient energy system for all.SEPA collaborates with over 1,000 member organizations across the…
Smart energy consumer collaborative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to serve as a trusted source of information on consumer's views of grid modernization, energy delivery and usage, and to help consumers understand the…
To transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses.
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.
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)
The united states association for energy economics, inc. (usaee) is a non-profit organization of business government, academic and other professionals that advances the understanding and application of economics across all facets of energy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the most unlike its peers is Womens Energy Summit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ↗
- Who funds Environmental Council of States Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA) ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY ↗
- Who funds Mid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS ENERGY SUMMIT ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ↗
- Who funds Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn 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 · American Gas Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc
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 Water Companies 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.