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PROTECT OUR POWER

PROTECT OUR POWER (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being NEWTON & ROCHELLE BECKER CHARITABLE TRUS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$1.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$9k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Protect Our Power does

Mission

Protect Our Power will build a consensus among key stakeholders, decision-makers and public policy influencers to launch a coordinated, comprehensive, expedient and adequately funded effort that will make the nation's electric grid more resilient and more resistant to all external threats. The national program must also ensure establishment of an enhanced power restoration and recovery component for all grid operations including communications protocols to facilitate recovery.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

- initiative: supply chain security: the study details baseline knowledge of current utility industry standards and actions on supply chain security, identifies gaps in supply chain security protocols, and provides 18 specific recommendations for improvements to effectively strengthen supply chain security.- initiative: pop cyber advisory support service: in partnership with naruc. Pop conducted a high-profile webinar on the cyberspace solarium commission report, which was attended by 180 regulatory agency and utility participants from all 50 states- federal legislative initiatives: provided input and advocated for passage in the senate energy & natural resources committee of provisions mandating cybersecurity investments, grant programs to assist rural and municipal utilities, and broader and more comprehensive information sharing on cyber risks. All three provisions were included in the committee's comprehensive energy package - cyberspace solarium commission: the cyberspace solarium commission (csc) was established in the john s. Mccain national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2019 to develop a consensus on a strategic approach to defending the united states in…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($890k) Expenses 100 ($890k) Net assets 0 ($0)2018 Revenue 169 ($1.5M) Expenses 169 ($1.5M) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 177 ($1.6M) Expenses 174 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($31k)2020 Revenue 131 ($1.2M) Expenses 134 ($1.2M) Net assets 29 ($9k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (131)Expenses (134)Net assets (29)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $373k to $45k (−88%).

$347k
$358k
$373k
$45k
2017201820192020
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$0
’18
$31k
’19
−$22k
’20
0.1
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.

2017201820192020
Listed3666
Joined·+3+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $50k.

Funder
'20
'22
total
$10k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PROTECT OUR POWER’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

PROTECT OUR POWER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 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

PROTECT OUR POWER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
Florida out of state home

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

Organizations like PROTECT OUR POWER

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 36%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Protect Our Power Institute Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROTECT OUR POWER?
PROTECT OUR POWER (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being NEWTON & ROCHELLE BECKER CHARITABLE TRUS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROTECT OUR POWER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to PROTECT OUR POWER.
Who is the largest funder of PROTECT OUR POWER?
NEWTON & ROCHELLE BECKER CHARITABLE TRUS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROTECT OUR POWER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 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