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American Gas Association
Washington, DC · EIN 13-0431590. Reported 122 grants totalling $2,304,900 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coloradans for Energy Access | Denver, CO | $207,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Partners for Energy Progress | Olympia, WA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The National Energy and Utility Affordability Coalition | Washington, DC | $126,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Code Council Inc | Cntry Clb Hls, IL | $112,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Council of State Governments | Lexington, KY | $109,950 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Independent Petroleum Association of America | Washington, DC | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners | Washington, DC | $102,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Association of Counties | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ncsl Foundation for State Legislatures | Denver, CO | $77,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Common Ground Alliance | Alexandria, VA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | Denver, CO | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Csa Group | Independence, OH | $65,833 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Energy Workforcedevelopment | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Economic Club of Washington DC | Washington, DC | $57,610 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edison Electric Institute | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Western Governors' Association | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Waterfall Foundation | Fairbanks, AK | $48,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates Inc | Odenton, MD | $42,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Gas Foundation | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Petroleum Institute | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Business Council for Sustainable Energy | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Democratic Governors' Association | Washington, DC | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Missouri-Fripud | Columbia, MO | $37,292 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Bryce Harlow Foundation | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Energy Solutions Center Inc | Washington, DC | $28,950 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National League of Cities | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Republican Attorneys General Association | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Caucus Foundation | Washington, DC | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The National Association of State Energy Officials | Arlington, VA | $23,850 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Association of Blacks in Energy | Mobile, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson Islands Club Incorporated | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Restaurant Association | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United States Conference of Mayors | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| African American Mayors Association Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Bethesda, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc | Chevy Chase, MD | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America | Washington, DC | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Association of Blacks in Energy | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Council of Young Political Leaders Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hispanics in Energy | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| State Agriculture and Rural Leadersinc | Lexington, KY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Leaders of America | Springfield, VA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marcellus Shale Coalition | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Republican State Leadership Commttee | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American National Standards Institute | New York, NY | $6,115 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners | Jackson, MS | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
31 of 50 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 30 | $624,065 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $520,935 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $566,858 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 34 | $593,042 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
49% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from American Gas Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 18 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 400 N Capitol St Nw 450, Washington, DC, 20001.
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