Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,848,334 to it, the largest being Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation ($2,006,431). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Center for Energy Workforce Development does
Mission
To build the alliances, processes, and tools to develop tomorrow's energy workforce.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Career awareness:cewd and its members engaged in a wide variety of career awareness activities in 2024. Career awareness activities are aimed at various demographics including youth and career seekers, including those from underrepresented communities. Key work in this area included:-supporting nationwide adoption of the energy and natural resources career cluster, providing onramps to expose learners to energy and associated career paths.-connecting with students through engagement with youth-focused organizations including ffa and deca, showcasing merits of industry careers.-debut of the energy careers discovery zone, a one-day event to introduce federal agencies and policymakers to energy careers helping them understand the industry and its skilling needs.-continued operation of the urban energy jobs program, offering pre-apprenticeship programs to support candidacy in registered apprenticeship programs.-partnership with unidosus to launch eleva (exito de latinos educated via apprenticeships) to expand visibility of and connections to the energy workforce.-continued development of career awareness resources to promote industry careers, making them available to industry…
$1,187,360 spent58% of program spendingMember support:cewd continued to support information needs of the industry's workforce development leaders, publishing a workforce development maturity model to support workforce development progress.cewd provided support to individual member companies as well as existing and new state energy workforce consortia. These consortia are the boots on the ground for implementing many of the best practices that are improving the return on workforce efforts. Member companies participated in numerous communities of practice, webinars and face to face meetings to share best practices and solutions that work.cewd held the 19th annual summit to discuss ways that energy companies can improve their workforce development initiatives. Additional education was offered through the diversity, equity, and inclusion forum.the organization provided counsel to numerous organizations interested in learning more about the industry's workforce development priorities, providing sector-wide leadership.
$595,400 spent$357,950 earned by the program29% of program spendingEducation development:cewd scaled work associated with the energy industry fundamentals curriculum (eif 2.0), a free virtual course to help high school and post-secondary learners better understand energy and energy careers. Students who successfully complete the program earn an industry recognized credential, showcasing their interest in and aptitude for energy careers.cewd supported companies interested in learning more about registered apprenticeship programs and also established competencies and frameworks to support educators' adoption of energy curriculum for their classrooms.
$255,347 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,038,107.
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 $1.6M to $2.9M (+82%).
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.
81% of CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Ms Melissa Henriksen
Executive director
Board chair
Mr Vivek Arora
Chair (until 05/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $47k → $1.1M.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT’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
CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 56% · 2019 92% · 2020 52% · 2021 80% · 2022 42% · 2023 45% — 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
80% of CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states in all.
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
CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Edison Electric Institute · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT?
- CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,848,334 to it, the largest being Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation ($2,006,431). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,848,334 in grants to CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT?
- Berkshire Hathaway Energy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,006,431 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ENERGY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 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 13 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