Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION
THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio match
- National Electrical Manufacturers Associationportfolio match
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Electrical Manufacturers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nuclear Energy Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sequoia Climate Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seminar Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lemelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49k on record.
- Department of State$49k
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 THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Edison Electric Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION?
- THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 0 organizations giving $0 in grants to THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION.
- How can an organization like THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION 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 0funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing