Northeast Power Coordinating Councilinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061784395
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2128401070
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,663,488
- Expenses
- $24,602,201
- Assets
- $19,523,998
- Liabilities
- $7,969,539
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLES DICKERSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHARLES DICKERSON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,081,477 total reported compensation
- DAMASE HEBERT (SVP CLO & CORP SECRETARY): $525,893 total reported compensation
- PHILIP FEDORA CHIEF (ENGINEER & SVP EXTERNAL AFFAIRS): $485,361 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northeast power coordinating council, inc. (npcc) is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation in the state of New York responsible for promoting and improving the reliability of the international, interconnected bulk power systems in northeastern north america through the development of regional reliability standards and compliance assessment and enforcement of continent-wide and regional reliability standards, coordination of system planning, design and operations, and assessment of reliability, and the establishment of regionally-specific criteria, and monitoring and enforcement of compliance with such criteria.
What it reported doing in 2025
Situation awareness and infrastructure security program (sais)the situation awareness and infrastructure security program is the combination of near real time awareness of conditions on the bulk power system with the programs necessary to increase the physical and cyber security of the electricity infrastructure. This includes the operation and maintenance of tools and other support services for the benefit of reliability coordinators and other system operators. Maintaining the real-time awareness of conditions on the interconnected bulk power systems of the npcc reliability coordinator areas (including awareness of abnormal events, communicating information concerning system conditions and abnormal events to, and facilitating real-time communications among system operators responsible for the reliable operation of the bulk power systems) is critical to maintaining reliable operation within npcc. On an ongoing basis, npcc monitors the operational status of the bulk power system and coordinates normal and pre-emergency communication, awareness and assistance in addition to the same during an emergency among the areas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 57
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $770K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.