Maryland · Nonprofit
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,500 to it, the largest being EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC ($57,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $537k
What Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners does
Mission
Support of various educational meetings. Objectives are to promote the betterment of public utility commission regulation through study discussion & other long term goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization conducted a successful annual convention providing educational seminars networking and discussion to enable member attendees growth opportunities
$288,342 spent$5,220 earned by the program88% of program spendingThe organization provided a successful meeting for its members commissioners with educational and neworking opportunities.
$39,636 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,978.
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 2024 to 2025, from $445k to $537k (+21%).
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.
37% of Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners’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
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
100% 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 Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners: 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 Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners?
- Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,500 to it, the largest being EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC ($57,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $80,500 in grants to Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners?
- EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 3 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