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COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$516k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$95k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Combined Heat and Power Alliance does

Mission

Chpa's mission is to bring together a coalition of business, labor, contractor, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions with the common purpose to educate all americans about combined heat and power (chp) and waste heat to power (whp), and how chp and whp can make america's manufacturers and other businesses more competitive, reduce energy costs, enhance grid reliability, and reduce emissions.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Legislative advocacy: advocated for pro-chp policies through a number of avenues: supported and signed onto letters of support, submitted comments, and provided recommendations on legislative actions at both the federal and state levels. Met with legislators on pro-chp policies. Set and managed state and federal policy priorities amongst members with regularly scheduled policy committee meetings.

    $102,200 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Outreach and education: engaged in activities to educate policymakers, government officials, and the public about chp. Held over a dozen meetings with federal policymakers and their staff on the benefits of chp, organized multiple webinars on chp technologies and benefits, held the third annual national summit on chp's role in a clean energy future, routinely shared information with a diverse audience across social media platforms, and published various factsheets, blogposts, and briefs on chp-related topics.

    $178,456 spent
    47% of program spending
  3. Coalition building and management: expanded the chp network with businesses, nonprofits, trade associations, end-users, environmental advocates, and others in the industry, and managed the day-to-day operations and communications among members within the organization.

    $96,000 spent
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $376,656.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($283k) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($155k)2021 Revenue 73 ($206k) Expenses 109 ($280k) Net assets 53 ($81k)2022 Revenue 199 ($563k) Expenses 186 ($477k) Net assets 108 ($167k)2023 Revenue 120 ($339k) Expenses 169 ($433k) Net assets 47 ($73k)2024 Revenue 182 ($516k) Expenses 193 ($494k) Net assets 61 ($95k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (182)Expenses (193)Net assets (61)Peer revenue range

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 $204k to $83k (−59%).

$155k
$119k
$204k
$83k
$107k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’20
−$73k
’21
$86k
’22
−$94k
’23
$22k
’24
1.5
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed3158588
Joined·+33+1+4+2
No longer listed·65412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of COMBINED HEAT AND POWER 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.

Where its funders are

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COMBINED HEAT AND POWER 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

61
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE?
COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE.
Who is the largest funder of COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE?
AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMBINED HEAT AND POWER ALLIANCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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