Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE
AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,650,650 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FUEL AND PETROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ($1,600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $395k
What American Energy Alliance does
Mission
American Energy Alliance (aea) is an educational advocacy and grassroots organization. Aea is related to the institute for energy research (ier). Aea's mission is to enlist, educate, and empower energy consumers to encourage policymakers to support policies that lead to abundant, affordable, and reliable energy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy: aea's legislative and public policy advocacy take place at both the state and national level. Aea's advocacy efforts are designed to educate and engage citizens in understanding and promoting our nation's most critical energy and environmental policy challenges. Through a deeper understanding of energy and environmental issues, our nation's citizens will be able to effectively participate in the policy-making process at the state and national level. Aea is a non-partisan issue organization that supports affordable, abundant, and reliable energy for america's consumers and businesses.
$1,032,813 spent60% of program spendingPublic education: aea's public education takes place at both the state and national level. This program is designed to foster a better understanding of energy and environmental issues.
$547,284 spent32% of program spendingResearch: aea conducts research on energy and environmental policy and develops policy positions for the purposes of educating policy makers, citizens, the media and other constituencies.
$144,770 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,724,867.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $888k (−31%).
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.
99% of AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Robert L Bradley Jr
Chief executive officer/founder
Board chair
Wayne Gable
Director/chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $400k → $200k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Institute for Energy Research · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE: 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 AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,650,650 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FUEL AND PETROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ($1,600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,650,650 in grants to AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- AMERICAN FUEL AND PETROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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