Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,050 to it, the largest being MULTIPLIER ($2,984,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $236k
What Americans for a Clean Energy Grid Inc does
Mission
Aceg's mission is to educate stakeholders and the public to support policies and regulations favoring the expansion, modernization, and integration of the high-voltage electric transmission grid to achieve a clean energy economy - one that attains the scientifically-validated global objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and awareness: aceg raised awareness on the need for a robust transmission grid through its communications and education efforts. In 2024, aceg hosted 10 webinars focused on transmission topics, with nearly 250 registrations per webinar. Aceg was mentioned in nearly 100 articles in 2024, was a guest on three podcasts reaching an audience of over 150,000 listeners, published more than 10 op-eds around the country, and held its first transmission champions reception. Aceg worked on a large transmission communications campaign to raise urgency and awareness around the need for meaningful action around transmission reform. This project included a message research phase, development of a creative brief and campaign materials, and a message campaign strategy.
$287,000 spent11% of program spendingPolicy engagement: aceg worked to advance transmission siting and permitting reforms by analyzing state and federal transmission permitting policies to find opportunities for improvement, helping stakeholders understand department of interior and other federal agency transmission permitting policies and implementation of federal backstop transmission siting provisions in the investment infrastructure and jobs act (iija) at department of energy (doe) and ferc, coordinating the work of a siting and permitting committee, and helping stakeholders understand transmission planning and permitting functions. Aceg submitted comments on multiple doe programs aimed at facilitating siting and permitting transmission lines. Aceg held meetings with ferc commissioners and staff to discuss aceg's recommendations about how the commission can advance transmission. Aceg submitted comments on ferc's backstop siting rule, doe's coordinated interagency transmission authorizations and permits program, doe's national interest electric transmission corridor designation process, doe's categorical exclusion and council on environmental quality national environmental policy act phase 2, rulemakings, and doe…
$948,116 spent36% of program spendingRegional engagement: aceg coordinated national and regional advocates and engage in key regions. Aceg conducted analysis on how ferc order no. 1920 should be implemented in regions, and published a report with recommendations on best practices pjm can adopt to further progress its long-term transmission planning, particularly with increased demand. Aceg engaged and coordinated with other transmission advocates and key utilities to build bridges between utilities and transmission advocates on ferc order no. 1920 compliance. Aceg attended and held events at all five regional naruc conferences. Each gathering featured a panel of experts discussing ferc order no. 1920 and how compliance with the rule will specifically work in the region at hand.
$240,682 spent9% of program spendingOther
$1,173,420 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,649,218.
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 2020 to 2021, from $232k to $1.9M (+720%).
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.
98% of AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Christina Hayes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.2M.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC’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
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 84% · 2023 50% — 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 AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC has grown faster 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 AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Clean Energy Grid Action · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC?
- AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,364,050 to it, the largest being MULTIPLIER ($2,984,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $5,364,050 in grants to AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC?
- MULTIPLIER is the largest funder on record, with $2,984,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC 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.
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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 8 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