Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ENERGY SERVICES INC
ENERGY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,233,820 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Energy Services Inc does
Mission
The primary mission of energy services, inc. (esi) is to provide limited-income families with the services and assistance necessary to prevent and/or alleviate energy and housing emergencies from occurring, while promoting initiatives that result in a family's long-term self-sufficiency.esi's secondary mission is to leverage other resources from public and private contributions to offset the gap between growing unmet energy and rental related needs due to the uncertainties associated with government grants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Energy and rental assistance is provided to struggling, limited-income, and at-risk elderly, disabled, veterans, and families with services and assistance grants to prevent and/or alleviate life-threatening energy and housing related emergencies from occurring during bitter cold winters and blistering hot summers. Special emphasis is also placed on establishing long-term economic stability of the households served. Esi serves as a central clearing-house provider of assistance throughout wisconsin.esi has contracts with the wi doa department of energy, housing and community resources (dehcr) to administer the wisconsin home energy assistance program (wheap) and keep wisconsin warm/cool fund, and heat and housing for heroes (kww/cf and hh4h). Wheap assistance grants are paid directly by wi doa while kww/cf and hh4h assistance grants are paid directly by esi. Beginning in fiscal 2021, esi administered the wisconsin emergency rental assistance (wera) program, with assistance grants paid directly by wi doa. Continuing in fiscal 2022, esi also began administering the low-income home water assistance program (lihwap), with assistance grants paid directly by wi doa. Furthermore, along…
$17,236,651 spentof which $6,020,578 as grants$1,681,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,236,651.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.6M to $8.3M (+48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 55% · 2019 52% · 2020 74% · 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 80% · 2024 82% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ENERGY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Timothy Bruer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $33k → $85k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 ENERGY SERVICES 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
ENERGY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 ENERGY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 87% · 2019 76% · 2020 91% · 2021 70% · 2022 71% · 2023 46% — 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
43% of ENERGY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
96% of ENERGY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
ENERGY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ENERGY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.
- BUILDING/GROUNDS REPAIR$8k
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 ENERGY SERVICES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENERGY SERVICES INC: 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 ENERGY SERVICES INC?
- ENERGY SERVICES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,233,820 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENERGY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,233,820 in grants to ENERGY SERVICES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENERGY SERVICES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENERGY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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