UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

EIN 831740146 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$6K
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$0
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$0
received into DAFs
Payout rate
0.0%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
1
funds held at year end
Average account
$6K
assets per fund

At 0.0%, this sponsor granted less than the 5% a private foundation is legally required to distribute, and granted nothing at all in the year covered.

DAF assets by year

$32K
FY2020
$6K
FY2021
$6K
FY2022
$6K
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$10K
FY2020
$25K
FY2021
$0
FY2022
$0
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 2,203 grant lines totalling $470.5M across 2019–2024 — $214K per line.

$4.8M of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 1% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Fund For A Better Future IncEIN 812319758 CA$20.0M
Advanced Energy Economy InstituteEIN 800373801 CA$9.8M
Conservative Energy NetworkEIN 813459199 MI$8.2M
Partnership Project IncEIN 522192070 DC$7.5M
Fresh EnergyEIN 411735501 MN$6.4M
Sustainable Markets FoundationEIN 134188834 NY$5.2M
Potential Energy Coalition IncEIN 824652837 NY$5.1M
Western Resource AdvocatesEIN 841113831 CO$4.7M
Upstart Co-Lab runs a DAF programEIN 133615533 NY$4.6M
Colorado State UniversityEIN 846000545 CO$4.2M
League Of Conservation Voters Education FundEIN 521379661 DC$4.1M
Western Conservation FoundationEIN 331107506 CO$4.0M
Environmental Law & Policy CenterEIN 363866530 IL$4.0M
Energy Action FundEIN 263390444 CA$4.0M
West Harlem Environmental Action IncEIN 133800068 NY$3.8M

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.