Skip to content

Utah · Nonprofit

NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC

NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being APS Foundation Inc ($26,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$15M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$8.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What National Energy Foundation Inc does

Mission

The mission of the National Energy Foundation is to cultivate and promote an energy literate society

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Energy Management Programs - Implement behavioral strategies that produce impressive measurable energy savings. Total Number of Events: 11,168 Total Number of Participants: 287,329 Estimated Number of Students Reached: 274,227 Reach: CO IL IN LA MI MN NM NV PA TX VA WV

    $10,646,440 spent$12,823,061 earned by the program
    84% of program spending
  2. Awareness Programs - Focus on improving energy and natural resource literacy through teacher training material distribution student involvement website development & maintenance and educational materials development. Total Number of Events: 4,008 Total Number of Participants: 89,591 Estimated Number of Students Reached: 96,008 Reach: Nationwide

    $1,429,613 spent$1,698,054 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Materials Development & Sales - Development and sales of new original instructional materials related to energy and natural resources that focus on energy literacy. Total Number of Events: 9,863 Total Number of Participants: 12,959 Estimated Number of Students Reached: 297,086 Reach: Nationwide

    $553,839 spent$459,549 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,629,892.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($9.2M) Net assets 100 ($6.9M)2022 Revenue 116 ($13M) Expenses 126 ($12M) Net assets 114 ($7.9M)2023 Revenue 122 ($13M) Expenses 144 ($13M) Net assets 119 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 124 ($14M) Expenses 151 ($14M) Net assets 117 ($8.2M)2025 Revenue 137 ($15M) Expenses 164 ($15M) Net assets 120 ($8.3M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (137)Expenses (164)Net assets (120)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 2021 to 2022, from $8.5M to $10M (+21%).

$8.5M
$10M
$10M
$10M
$12M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’21
$1.2M
’22
$261k
’23
−$147k
’24
$63k
’25
5.4
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.

Board chair

Jennifer O'Shea

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1518171518
Joined·+4+2+0+3
No longer listed·1320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 1 state in all.

AZ

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $375k on record — $375k federal, $10 state.

Federal$375k
grants $0contracts $375k
17
18
19
Top agencies
  • Department of Transportation$375k
State$10
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $10

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 NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION 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 Utah

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC?
NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being APS Foundation Inc ($26,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26,000 in grants to NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC?
APS Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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