Maryland · Nonprofit
GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION
GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $0
What Global Smart Energy Federation does
Mission
The Global Smart Energy Federation (gsef) is a global stakeholder organization committed to creating smarter, cleaner, electrical systems around the world. To that end, gsef facilitates the collaboration of national and international smart grid nongovernmental organizations and governmental organizations from around the world that conduct and foster research in the application of smart grid technologies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Global Smart Energy Federation (gsef) supported the rapid implementation of smart grid technologies by serving as a global center competency on smart grid technologies and policy issues and fostering the international exchange of ideas and best practices on energy issues, including but not limited to reliability, energy efficiency, energy storage, cybersecurity, and climate change. In addition, gsef facilitated dialogue and cooperation between the public and private sectors in countries around the world on issues relating to the deployment of smart grid technologies.
$8,814 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,814.
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 2017 to 2018, from $64k to $27k (−59%).
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.
0% of GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Reji Kumar Pillai
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION’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
GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state 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
GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION's revenue fell 80% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION: 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 GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION?
- GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION?
- THE GRIDWISE ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL SMART ENERGY FEDERATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2024), 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