Edison Electric Institute

Legal name: Edison Electric Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
130659550
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, D.C., USA
Phone
202-508-5000
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$101,821,254
Expenses
$98,837,000
Assets
$199,520,736
Liabilities
$143,328,013

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

92 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICIA K VINCENT-COLLAWN (INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • DANNY BROUILLETTE (PRESIDENT/CEO UNTIL 10/24, SNR ADVISOR AS OF 10/24)
  • THOMAS KUHN (FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO UNTIL 12/23)
  • LISA WOOD (FORMER VICE PRESIDENT UNTIL 3/23)

Highest reported compensation

  • THOMAS KUHN (FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO UNTIL 12/23): $12,453,228 total reported compensation
  • DANNY BROUILLETTE (PRESIDENT/CEO UNTIL 10/24, SNR ADVISOR AS OF 10/24): $3,202,244 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN WOLFF (CSO&EVP,PUB POL/EXT AFFRS UNTIL 9/24): $3,049,610 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

EEI is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies. Our members provide electricity for nearly 250 million Americans, and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As a whole, the electric power industry supports more than 7 million direct and indirect jobs in communities across the U.S.

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocacyeei represents all u.s. Investor-owned electric companies and works to advance supportive public policies that benefit electricity customers before congress, federal and state regulatory agencies, and state legislatures. Eei's member companies are among the most regulated companies in the country, and eei engages on their behalf with federal and state legislators, regulators, and other policymakers through lobbying, advocacy, and regulatory proceedings, with the goal of providing customers with the safe, reliable, and affordable electricity they need and expect. Eei also engages with a range of other industry stakeholders, including the media, on issues related to grid reliability; cyber and physical security; mutual assistance and disaster response; finance and tax matters; and programs, services, and solutions for electricity customers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 60 of 61 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12.5M · 92 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.6M reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 115 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 81 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.