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The American Public Power Association

Purpose statement: empower community-owned utilities to deliver superior services through advocacy, education, and technical programs.vision statement: affordable and reliable power for all.

$906k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$876k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$37,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$187,500
Organizations funded a year
11 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The American Public Power Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$876k11%
FY202320$1.0M30%
FY202223$924k43%
FY202125$1.3M48%
FY202021$824k67%
FY201925$552k68%
FY201811$354k82%
FY201718$483kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.2MEducation$179kCommunity Improvement$175kScience & Tech$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Power Authority$477,6514n/a
City of Santa Clara$408,7254n/a
Sacramento Municipal Util Dist$268,3734n/a
Wisconsin Public Power Inc$204,7596n/a
Ma Municipal Wholesale Electric Co$204,5774n/a
General Electric International Inc$200,1842n/a
Kissimmee Utility Authority$190,0171n/a
City of Tacoma$187,5002n/a
American Municipal Power Inc$176,3163n/a
Northern California Power Agency$148,4502n/a
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All grantees of The American Public Power Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Power Authority$477,6514n/a
City of Santa Clara$408,7254n/a
Sacramento Municipal Util Dist$268,3734n/a
Wisconsin Public Power Inc$204,7596n/a
Ma Municipal Wholesale Electric Co$204,5774n/a
General Electric International Inc$200,1842n/a
Kissimmee Utility Authority$190,0171n/a
City of Tacoma$187,5002n/a
American Municipal Power Inc$176,3163n/a
Northern California Power Agency$148,4502n/a
Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC)$137,5003n/a
Tillamook People's Utility District$133,2842n/a
City of Pasadena$131,2502n/a
Taunton Public Schools - Benjamin Friedman Middle School$125,0002n/a
City of Los Angeles Dept of Water & Power$125,0001n/a
Missouri River Energy Services$125,0002n/a
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority$122,4691n/a
City of Burlington$115,8467n/a
Town of Belmont$115,0001n/a
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities$109,20441%
Electricities of North Carolina$102,7174n/a
Nebraska Public Power District$101,3023n/a
Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association$99,33921%
City of Logan$93,7502n/a
Northern Wasco County People's Utility District$93,7502n/a
University of California Davis$93,5362n/a
Palo Alto Library$91,5003n/a
City Water Light and Power$86,2501n/a
Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems$85,6503n/a
City of Austin$83,2313n/a
Omaha Public Power District$81,6702n/a
Manitowoc Public Utilities$79,9001n/a
City of Burbank$78,1992n/a
Fayetteville Public Works Commission$76,1092n/a
Energy Northwest$64,6942n/a
Gainesville Regional Utilities$63,8952n/a
Town of Marblehead$57,5001n/a
Stowe Electric Department$56,0901n/a
Emerald People's Utility District$54,3552n/a
City of Westerville$54,2592n/a
City of Fort Collins$50,4883n/a
Snohomish County Pud #1$49,4542n/a
Lincoln Electric System$49,0752n/a
Town of Concord$47,4843n/a
Conway Corporation$45,5201n/a
City Public Service Board$45,1701n/a
Elk River Municipal Utilities$40,0002n/a
City of Holyoke$39,3331n/a
New Holstein Utilities$31,6512n/a
Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska$30,0002n/a
Nc State University$25,6322n/a
City of Rock Hill$25,3351n/a
Algona Municipal Utilities$23,9362n/a
Moorhead Public Service$20,9901n/a
Littleton Electric Light Department$18,6001n/a
Energy New England LLC$17,5001n/a
Imperial Irrigation District$16,0651n/a
Westfield Public Schools$15,5002n/a
Alabama Municipal Electric Authority$15,3462n/a
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte$14,0001n/a
Appalachian State University$13,7001n/a
Muscatine Power and Water$13,0001n/a
Stoughton Utilities$10,0001n/a
University of California Berkeley Foundation$10,00010%
Massena Memorial Hospital$9,9001n/a
City of Clarksville Tn$7,5001n/a
Oklahoma Municipal Power Auth$7,0001n/a
Electric Power Research Institute Inc$7,00010%
Valencia College$6,0001n/a
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College$6,0001n/a
Town of Braintree$5,6251n/a
Eventtracker Security LLC$5,6201n/a
North Carolina State University$5,5001n/a
Smart Utility Solutions$5,1741n/a
Arizona State University$5,0211n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.

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.

Center for Technology…Project Bread-The Wal…Firehouse Subs Public…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL14.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Technology and Civic Life · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The American Public Power Association

How much does The American Public Power Association give?
The American Public Power Association reported 18 itemized grants totaling $875,562, out of $905,569 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The American Public Power Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Housing & Shelter (28%), Public Benefit (19%).
Who are The American Public Power Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Power Authority ($478k), City of Santa Clara ($409k), Sacramento Municipal Util Dist ($268k).
Does The American Public Power Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The American Public Power Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center for Technology and Civic Life, Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc, Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc.
Where is The American Public Power Association based?
The American Public Power Association is based in VA.

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 88 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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