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National Association of Water Companies at a glance

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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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$295kPublic Benefit$51kSocial Science$10kCommunity Improvement$8kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $97,606, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NMSU Foundation: $6k → 23%NARUC: $47k → 14%WOMEN'S ENERGY SUMMIT: $8k → 14%SEARUC: $8k → 23%Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners: $8k → 6%NASUCA: $10k → 8%ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF STATES INC: $40k → 14%NASUCA: $8k → 8%NARUC: $36k → 14%NASUCA: $8k → 8%NARUC: $25k → 14%MACRUC: $11k → 8%NARUC: $25k → 14%NARUC: $21k → 14%NARUC: $18k → 14%CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY: $15k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF STATES INC: $15k → 14%NARUC: $15k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF STATES INC: $11k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF THE STATES: $7k → 14%American Gas Association: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$282k · 3 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$282k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +61%
  • EC
    Environmental Council of States Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +35%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA)
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +116%
  • MA
    Mid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +14%
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.

1
New England Conference of Public Utiliti Commissioners

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…

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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
Electricity Consumers Resource Council

To promote policies assuring reliable electricity supplies for all.

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6
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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7
Smart Electric Power Alliance

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…

Environment
8
Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative

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…

Environment
9
Advanced Energy United Inc

To transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses.

Community Improvement
10
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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11
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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12
United States Association for Energy Economics Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS: $184,995 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERSEnvironmental Council of States Inc: $72,450 · OtherEnvironmental Council of States IncNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA): $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA)Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+7 more: $57,606 · Other+7 moreCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY: $15,000 · InternationalMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc: $11,000 · Public BenefitWestern Conference of Public Service Commissioners: $7,500 · Community ImprovementNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $6,000 · Education
Other$360,051International$15,000Public Benefit$11,000Community Improvement$7,500Education$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS: $184,995 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Council of States Inc: $72,450 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE UTILITY CONSUMER ADVOCATES (NASUCA): $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION: $9,106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Conference of Public Service Commissioners: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSoutheastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Insti…American Gas Associat…Nuclear Energy Instit…
Edison Electric Institute IncDC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · American Gas Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc

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 National Association of Water Companies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association of Water Companies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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