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Nuclear Energy Institute Inc

The nuclear energy institute (nei) is the policy organization for the nuclear energy and technologies industry and participates in both the national and global policy-making process.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$17MPublic Benefit$2.2MScience & Tech$466kArts & Culture$265kHealth$231kEducation$230kRecreation & Sports$199kCivil Rights$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $2,844,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,997,266 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $152,566 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUCLEAR MATTERS$2,300,000
THIRDWAY$100,000
BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC$90,000
ACPA$50,000
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES$30,000
WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION$27,000
FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY$25,000
NGS INVITATIONAL$25,000
ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC$20,000
AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY$17,500
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY$16,700
WYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES$10,000
NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC$10,000
CONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE$10,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Waterfall Foundation: $7k → 8%THE WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $12k → 16%Waterfall Foundation: $7k → 8%WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%Waterfall Foundation: $13k → 8%NGS INVITATIONAL: $25k → 9%WATERFALL FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%NGS Shootout: $8k → 14%NGS Shootout: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 55 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
30

Total granted

$20M
$432k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

84%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHealthScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $895k · revenue +63%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +29% · 85% of their budget
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • GD
    Graham Digital Holding LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UC
    UNITED COALITION FOR ADVANCED NUCLEAR POWER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -8% · 26% of their budget
  • BM
    BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +34%
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
American Gas Association

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…

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2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
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
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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6
Natural Gas Supply Association

The object and purpose of the association is to promote sound federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to the natural gas industry, the equitable and effective administration of such laws and regulations, and to educate and inform…

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7
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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8
Pipeline Research Council International Inc

Foster an international, industry-wide collaborative community that delivers innovative applied research, and develops the means for stakeholders to leverage/implement the research.

Community Improvement
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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10
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
11
National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures; the most unlike its peers is Us Navy Memorial Foundation. 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

78 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. 78 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
58/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NUCLEAR MATTERS: $15,946,501 · Science & TechNUCLEAR MATTERS+3 more: $318,215 · Science & TechNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES: $610,630 · OtherNATIONAL CONFE…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS: $135,000 · OtherAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY: $117,500 · OtherRepublican Attorneys General Assoc: $115,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $129,400 · Other+51 more: $1,436,300 · Other+51 moreBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $895,000 · Public BenefitNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $75,000 · Public BenefitWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $39,000 · Public Benefit+4 more: $82,500 · Public BenefitResources for the Future Inc: $90,000 · EnvironmentConservative Climate Foundation Inc: $70,000 · EnvironmentENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT: $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION & MEASUREMENTS: $33,000 · EnvironmentCONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentENERGY OPTIONS NETWORK INC: $14,020 · EnvironmentNational Energy Resources Organization Inc: $12,850 · Environment+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $200,000 · Arts & CultureUS NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 · HealthSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 · HealthPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $23,000 · HealthHARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHIRD WAY: $105,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $40,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Science & Tech$16,264,716Other$2,648,830Public Benefit$1,091,500Environment$334,870Arts & Culture$215,000Health$190,500Civil Rights$155,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNUCLEAR MATTERS: $15,946,501 over 7y, 100% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $895,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES: $272,000 over 8y, 85% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $200,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS: $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $129,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY: $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $83,700 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetConservative Climate Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWATERFALL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN LEGISLATORS INC: $57,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED COALITION FOR ADVANCED NUCLEAR POWER: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT: $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CLEAN POWER ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $49,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJ STREET CUP: $38,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE CREATIVE COALITION: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION & MEASUREMENTS: $33,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONSUMER ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE: $27,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR GLOBAL SECURITY: $27,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS FORWARD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Award Foundation: $20,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL: $20,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENERGY COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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…Pharmaceutical Resear…American Gas Associat…American Petroleum In…American Fuel and Pet…Ctia - the Wireless A…AARPEverytown for Gun Saf…The Pew Charitable Tr…Biotechnology Innovat…Environmental Defense…The Business Roundtab…
Edison Electric Institute IncDC67.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Gas Association · American Petroleum Institute · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · Ctia - the Wireless Association · AARP · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Business Roundtable 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 Nuclear Energy Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nuclear Energy Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • National Council On Radiation Protection & Measurements: 100% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Eucg Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 89 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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