Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP
NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $29M
What North American Electric Reliability Corp does
Mission
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (nerc) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Situation awareness and infrastructure security: this activity includes monitoring the conditions of the bulk power system and providing leadership coordination, technical expertise, and assistance to the industry in responding to events as necessary. This activity also includes assisting in the development of tools and other support services for the benefit of reliability coordinators and other system operators to enhance reliability, operations, and planning. This also includes the coordination of electric industry activities to promote critical infrastructure protection of the bulk power system in north america by taking a leadership role so as to reduce vulnerability and improve mitigation and protection of the electricity sector's critical infrastructure.
Compliance monitoring and enforcement: this activity includes the process used to assess, investigate, evaluate, and audit in order to measure compliance with nerc reliability standards that are developed, adopted, and approved through the reliability standards development program and placed into effect pursuant to ferc orders or to applicable authorities in other north american jurisdictions.
Reliability assessment and performance analysis: this activity includes the analysis and reporting on the reliability and adequacy of the north american bulk power system, analysis of off-normal events, identification of root causes of events, assessment of past reliability performance for lessons learned, dissemination of findings and lessons learned to the electric industry to improve reliability performance, and development of reliability performance benchmarks.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2021 to 2022, from $65M to $86M (+31%).
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 NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (9% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Ken Defontes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP’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
100% of NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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
NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP is better cushioned than half of the 43 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP: 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.
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 NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP?
- NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP?
- EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORP 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 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