Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,534,568 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,419,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Institute for Energy Research does
Mission
The Institute for Energy Research (ier) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. Ier maintains that freely functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well-being of individuals and society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public education: ier turns research into educational materials. Ier's communication and education efforts are disseminated employing both traditional and new media to educate policy makers, the media, the general public, and other constituencies on energy issues and sound energy and environmental policy.
$1,206,440 spent73% of program spendingResearch: ier conducts intensive, original research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. Ier has earned a solid reputation as a premier source of accurate, substantive and timely energy information for policy makers, the media, and public. Ier's scholarly research provides the intellectual underpinnings for our educational efforts. This year we focused on impediments to domestic energy production, including government restrictions on access, burdensome regulations, and the favoritism of energy sources that are unsustainable in the marketplace.
$436,966 spent$215 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,643,406.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $2.7M (+47%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Robert L Bradley Jr
Chief executive officer/founder
Board chair
Preston Marshall
Director/chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $143k → $1.3M.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $425k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Energy Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH raised.
From the IRS filings of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 26% · 2020 26% · 2021 36% · 2022 43% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
63% of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Energy Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY 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 RESEARCH?
- INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,534,568 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,419,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,534,568 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,419,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 33 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