Electric Infrastructure Security Council Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Conferences, webinars and digital communicationseis strengthened its global role as a leading convener and knowledge center for infrastructure resilience. Through high-level summits, international simulations, and sector-focused collaborations, eis advanced its mission to build preparedness, redundancy, and recovery capacity across critical systems.a. The resilient renewable society summit in london (september 23-24, 2024), organized in partnership with imperial college london, convened senior leaders from across the world in government, industry, and academia to address emerging global (continued on schedule o) resilience challenges. The conference explored the systemic interdependencies between energy, communications, and finance, as well as frameworks for resilient cities and regions, and strategies for enhancing redundancy in lifeline infrastructures. The discussion also focused on the role of innovation and research in risk assessment, resilience investment, and the integration of artificial intelligence tools for crisis management. The event reinforced the positioning of eis council, imperial college london and the city of london's as a collaborative, 3-part hub for global resilience dialogue and academic collaboration.b. The electric sector black sky resilience conference in Washington, d.c. (may 21-22, 2025), co-hosted with exelon and pjm, focused on critical electric sector resilience gaps and opportunities, and on the operational realities of blackstart readiness, grid transition, and today's rapidly growing grid expansion. Sessions, including two live simulation exercises, examined inverter-based resource challenges, operational coordination during system restoration, cyberphysical interdependencies, and publicprivate partnerships to ensure energy continuity under extreme conditions. In sum the summit highlighted the importance of decision-maker focus and coordinated planning and investment in resilient grid architectures.c. Earth ex live! Exercises. Complementing these flagship events, eis continued to expand its online engagement and simulation programs, hosting over a thousand participants. Two earth ex live! Exercises brought together participants from utilities, ministries, and ngos to practice coordinated responses to large-scale disruptions and cascading failures.d. The ginom webinar series, featuring five sessions addressing various topics, including the human factor in crisis management and simulations. The webinars also explored the development progress behind the ginom platform.e. The black sky resilience webinar series hosted sectoral resilience forums through diverse lenses, including health system continuity and water sector protection.f. Two blackstart webinars deepened technical and policy understanding of restart operations and redundancy planning. The blackstart webinars are one vehicle that eis is employing to publicize and spread the findings and recommendations in the epro v handbook, cited in topic 3 above.g. Eis's communications and research output continued to grow, with more than 30 new blogs and regular dissemination of policy and technical insights to a global audience of over 15,000 newsletter subscribers. Daily social media updates further extended outreach and collaboration.h. Black sky resilience working groups. Eis also leads three active working groups, comprised of experts from the electric and other critical infrastructure sectors, government and regulators at the federal and state levels, academia, and ngos. The working groups develop coordinated strategies, policy recommendations, and best practices for multi-sector resilience in three topic areas: - emergency communications and emergency management- resilience and redundancy policy - electric grid blackstarteach working group will develop periodic reports on their findings, for briefing to key private and public sector decision making and policy organizations.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $11.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -47.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings