Maryland · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,841 to it, the largest being THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Institute for Energy & Environmental Research does
Mission
The organization was formed to provide the government and policy makers with sound scientific information. The organizations goal is to bring scientific excellence to public policy issues in order to promote the democratization of science and a safer, healthier environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nuclear: Completed and published a report on the legacy of US nuclear weapons testing inthe Marshall Islands. Researched and prepared a report on radioactive waste managementin France. Continued analysis of proposed tritium venting from Los Alamos National Lab.
$77,144 spent93% of program spendingRenewable Energy: Researched a paper on the water requirements of nuclearpower plants; prepared and presented comments to the Colorado PUC on a proposedsmall modular reactor and pointed to renewable energy alternatives.
$3,841 spent5% of program spendingHealthy Soils: Continued research on how healthy soils can bejoined to good farmer income and healthy, affordable food.Started drafting a report based on research.
$1,542 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,527.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $294k to $164k (−44%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $38.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH’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
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
77% of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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
88%
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 INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: 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 INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH?
- INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,841 to it, the largest being THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $71,841 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH?
- THE ABELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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