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DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC

DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,528,836 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($3,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$42M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$5.5M
Net assets
$30M
22/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Dollar Energy Fund Inc does

Mission

To improve the quality of life for households experiencing hardships by providing utility assistance and other services that lead to self-sufficiency.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Dollar energy fund, inc. Provides utility assistance grants to low-income households in the form of utility company credits or cash grants for electric, gas, water, sewer, and telephone utilities. Dollar energy fund, inc.'s utility assistance program provides utility assistance grants in the exact amount needed to restore service or prevent termination of service and is applied directly to a customer's account. Through connecting utility customers with partneringcommunity-based organizations at application intake, utility customers are also introduced to additional resources that may benefit their households. During fiscal year 2024-2025, dollar energy fund, inc. Provided grants to 81,700 households.

    $23,771,602 spentof which $23,771,602 as grants$1,116,609 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  2. Dollar energy fund, inc. Provides low-income program administration for first energy (meted, penelec, penn power, west penn power), peoples natural gas, columbia gas pennsylvania, pennsylvania american water, illinois american water, west virginia american water, omaha public power district, community utilities of pennsylvania, aqua water pennsylvania, aqua water illinois, verizon, and the west virginia housing development fund. Customer assistance programs (caps) are designed to help low-income residential customers maintain utility service. Caps can help residential customers lower their monthly utility bills, and may also reduce or remove amounts past due.

    $11,930,148 spent$11,393,719 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  3. Dollar energy fund, inc. Administers the appalachian power company virginia (aep-va) energy and efficiency pilot program. The program provides eligible aep-va customers with an energy efficiency educational packet and energy efficiency kit. During fiscal year 2024-2025, dollar energy fund, inc. Provided 2,194 energy efficiency educational packets and energy efficiency kits to aep-va customers.

    $76,763 spentof which $70,585 as grants$130,528 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,778,513.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($16M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 116 ($18M) Expenses 105 ($16M) Net assets 118 ($14M)2019 Revenue 214 ($34M) Expenses 116 ($18M) Net assets 252 ($30M)2020 Revenue 134 ($21M) Expenses 124 ($19M) Net assets 267 ($31M)2021 Revenue 201 ($32M) Expenses 167 ($26M) Net assets 217 ($25M)2022 Revenue 146 ($23M) Expenses 140 ($22M) Net assets 220 ($26M)2023 Revenue 129 ($20M) Expenses 159 ($25M) Net assets 186 ($22M)2024 Revenue 494 ($78M) Expenses 476 ($74M) Net assets 227 ($27M)2025 Revenue 265 ($42M) Expenses 249 ($39M) Net assets 257 ($30M)
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Revenue (265)Expenses (249)Net assets (257)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 2018 to 2019, from $14M to $30M (+111%).

$12M
$14M
$30M
$36M
$30M
$30M
$28M
$34M
$35M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 22% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 888 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$238k
’17
$2.1M
’18
$16M
’19
$1.8M
’20
$5.7M
’21
$1.2M
’22
−$4.4M
’23
$4.0M
’24
$3.1M
’25
5.2
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.

Chief executive

Chad Quinn

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232323232426222325
Joined·+2+3+0+2+6+4+3+5
No longer listed·23014823
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $66k → $1.1M.

15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

54%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 81% · 2019 71% · 2020 72% · 2021 80% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% — 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.

How long its funders stay

38% of DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
OH
PA
KY
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

43%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 10 states

OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Four Twelve Renewables Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC?
DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,528,836 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($3,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,528,836 in grants to DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC?
MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing