Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Advanced Energy Institute
Advanced Energy Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,731,182 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($7,530,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Advanced Energy Institute does
Mission
To raise awareness of the public benefits and opportunities of advanced energy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Driving technology adoption: U.S. energy policy is primarily determined at the state and local level and Advanced Energy Institute ("Institute") carries out its mission by providing a platform for the discussion of advanced energy issues and the development of policy frameworks for use by a range of state and regional stakeholders across various states. In articulating the public benefits of advanced energy, the Institute shares communications expertise and policy analyses of the advanced energy business sector with state and regional partner organizations, policy makers and other interested parties.
$3,295,311 spent41% of program spendingExpanding Wholesale Markets: This initiative seeks to eliminate barriers to the participation of advanced energy technologies in competitive wholesale markets. This work includes, but is not limited to, reforming legal independent system operator and regional transmission organization (ISO/RTO) market rules and operating practices that restrict or limit the ability of advanced energy technologies to participate in the markets, pursuing new market designs that better accomodate and take advantage of the unique physical and operational characteristics of advanced energy technologies, and opposing market rule proposals that would unfairly disadvantage advanced energy technologies or give undue preference to incumbent technologies.
$2,476,579 spent31% of program spendingDecision maker education and engagement: The Institute works to help state regulators, state energy office officials, and candidates for governor and legislature better understand advanced energy products, services, and business models. Through engagement, business roundtables, and educational forums, the Institute educates candidates, commissioners, energy office officials, and staff members about the benefits advanced energy technologies and services can provide to customers and the electric power system and helps to solve the challenges in obtaining these benefits.
$906,139 spent11% of program spendingElectrifying transportation: This initiative is designed to accelerate the electrification of transportation across the country. This program works to speed the adoption of electric vehicles (EVS), charging infrastructure, and supportive technologies/services through a targeted strategy focused on key states. The specific policies pursued include, but are not limited to, those that reduce the upfront price of the vehicle, accelerate charging infrastructure deployment, modernize utility regulations to integrate EVS, and address the specific challenges facing medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
$686,382 spent8% of program spendingOther programs include: Education and communications.
$726,739 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,091,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $9.5M to $20M (+110%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Advanced Energy Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Sudeen Kelly
Director, Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $9.6M.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Advanced Energy Institute raised.
From the IRS filings of Advanced Energy Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Advanced Energy Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Advanced Energy Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 56% · 2019 37% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Advanced Energy Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Advanced Energy Institute draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Advanced Energy Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Advanced Energy Institute
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advanced Energy Institute: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Advanced Energy Institute?
- Advanced Energy Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,731,182 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($7,530,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Advanced Energy Institute have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $38,731,182 in grants to Advanced Energy Institute, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advanced Energy Institute?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advanced Energy Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing