Washington · Nonprofit
NW ENERGY COALITION
NW ENERGY COALITION (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,215,356 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($1,795,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Nw Energy Coalition does
Mission
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy Coalition advances clean, equitable, and affordable energy policies by leveraging our analytic expertise and convening a broad alliance of people and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
POLICY: The Coalition engages in in-depth policy analysis and advocacy on a wide range of energy policy and regulatory issues at the utility, state, regional and federal level. NWEC convenes disparate voices and perspectives to engage in dialogue, come to a common understanding and move forward with shared solutions. Our work advances utility and government energy efficiency and renewable energy programs to reduce climate pollution and create an equitable clean energy system, including energy codes and standards, low-income and equity-focused energy programs, community and utility scale renewable energy, and power market and transmission planning. Policy work analyzes regulatory issues including rate design, utility business models, electrification of transportation and decarbonization of buildings, and energy system impacts of changes to hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River basin.
$1,329,008 spent84% of program spendingOUTREACH: The Coalition convenes its members and the wider community to engage in dialogue on clean energy and climate policy developments affecting individual Northwest states and the region as a whole, including information on energy efficiency, renewable energy, consumer/low-income issues, decarbonization of the energy sector, and protection of fish and wildlife imperiled by the power system. This is done through state caucus meetings, full member meetings, webinars, and conferences.
$138,030 spent9% of program spendingCOMMUNICATIONS: The organization issues regular communications via alerts, press releases, fact sheets and newsletters. These communications present the latest clean energy and climate policy developments affecting individual Northwest states and the region as a whole, including information on energy efficiency, renewable energy, consumer/low-income issues, and protection of fish and wildlife imperiled by the power system. More in-depth analyses are presented via white papers and special publications.
$117,698 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,584,736.
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.
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 $1.2M to $1.5M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Shanna Brownstein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $929k → $1.3M.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NW ENERGY COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
NW ENERGY COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 NW ENERGY COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 60% · 2019 46% · 2020 69% · 2021 34% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of NW ENERGY COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
NW ENERGY COALITION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $855k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding NW ENERGY COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500 on record.
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$500
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 NW ENERGY COALITION
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 NW ENERGY COALITION: 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 NW ENERGY COALITION?
- NW ENERGY COALITION (Washington) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,215,356 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($1,795,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NW ENERGY COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $8,215,356 in grants to NW ENERGY COALITION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NW ENERGY COALITION?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,795,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NW ENERGY COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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