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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Expense Reduction Support
Mission: The primary mission of energy services, inc. Is to provide limited income families with the services and assistance necessary to prevent and or alleviate energy-related emergencies from occurring, while promoting initiatives that result in a family's long-term self-sufficiency. The agency's secondary mission is to leverage other resources from public/private, labor, charitable foundations and other sources to offset the gap between growing unmet energy-related needs and declining federal funds.
Programs: Energy assistance programs provided assistance to 78,814 low-income families for utility and home heating costs for a total direct benefit of $39,794,391. This irs form 990 excludes $38,496,240 of state emergency energy assistance grants from the wisconsin home energy assistance program (wheap) that are administered by energy services, inc. These costs are excluded from the return as payments are made directly by the wisconsin department of administration. Included within the return are the related program support costs for financial assistance and other energy services.
the keep wisconsin warm/cool fund and heat for heroes provided home energy crisis assistance to 9,612 eligible wisconsin households for a total direct benefit of $2,175,000. 94% of those helped by the keep wisconsin warm/cool fund and heat for heroes are elderly, disabled, veterans, or families with young children. In addition $1,670,341 was leveraged to assist 6,280 veterans in crisis.
energy services activities provided home energy related services to wisconsin households.