{"edition":"new-york-city","organization":"WE ACT for Environmental Justice","organizationId":"org:we-act-for-environmental-justice","boundaryVersion":"OMB-23-01-2023-07-21","updated":"2026-10-07","display":{"metric":{"id":"daly-equivalent","years":1,"label":"DALY","priceLabel":"$ / DALY"},"priceUSD":36118379.9439701,"canonicalPriceUSDPerTenEquivalentYears":361183799.43970096,"conversion":"display only; QALYs and income equivalents are not measured clinical DALYs"},"listDisplay":{"metric":{"id":"daly-equivalent","years":1,"label":"DALY","priceLabel":"$ / DALY"},"priceUSD":36118379.9439701,"canonicalPriceUSDPerTenEquivalentYears":361183799.43970096,"conversion":"display only; QALYs and income equivalents are not measured clinical DALYs"},"model":{"version":"nyc-weact-targeted-resources-assessed-unknown-v2","costScope":"Three years of all charitable recipient gross operating expense, including national programs, grants and event resources; not only the local heat campaign. Capital acquisition is not added on top of recognized annual expense; a resource stress addresses omitted capacity.","geographicAttribution":"g=1 for modeled NYC-resident heat mortality, entirely within the official 22-county MSA. No statewide campaign or climate benefit assigned by headquarters.","formula":"v=ln(1+d)+m; q=u*(1-exp(-v*L))/v; A=sum(j=0..T-1)(1+d)^(-lag-j); Qall=D*r*p*a*b*q*A-h; QMSA=g*Qall; price10=10*C/QMSA if positive.","counterfactual":"Enacted cooling law, existing HEAP, cooling centers, agency enforcement and other coalition members continue. Only improvement beyond that baseline is credited; no historical passage or total congestion-pricing gain.","attribution":"The shared coalition framework assigns WE ACT a subjective 20% central contribution to additional implementation, not credit for the whole coalition. The NYC-EJA report separately assumes 20%; these correlated scenarios are not independent interventions to sum. Existing legal mandates receive no new-gift credit.","uncertainty":"Judgment-based scenario, not a statistical forecast or complete portfolio ranking. Marginal cooling uptake, health protection and campaign additionality are not observed. Positive alternatives, zero and harm are retained.","nativeOutcomes":"Additional implementation of cooling access and affordability -> annual heat deaths avoided beyond baseline -> finite survival-adjusted QALYs.","inputs":[{"name":"C","value":33762033,"unit":"USD across three operating years","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Three future years at observed FY2024 gross operating expense, assuming constant scale; undiscounted costs charged upfront. 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Mortality cohorts are not ratepayer households; operational dollar/incidence evidence, not lack of an RCT or subjective attribution alone, prevents calibration.","directions":["New air-conditioning use can increase electricity payments; efficient equipment or subsidies can reduce actual bills or private purchases relative to alternatives.","Landlord equipment and capital costs can shift through rent, while public subsidies and utility costs require separate payer incidence.","Full negative electricity, access, administration and time costs remain independent of clinical protection/survival; overlap applies only to positive gains.","Tax/benefit effects, public transfers and disjoint real resources must not duplicate the original induced household/public-cost diagnostic; no retail equipment value or survivor earnings."],"missing":"Current WE ACT gift-responsive unique resource-sharing households and actual cooling uptake/use; alternative private electricity/equipment/rent payments, tariff and billing incidence; disposable-resource baseline, taxes/benefits and full access/time costs; finite lag/duration, existing HEAP/public/landlord baseline and disjoint real resource scope."}},"sources":[{"id":"law","title":"Enacted cooling law and implementation requirements","publisher":"NYC Council","url":"https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=156F95BB-CA74-44F3-A07B-A0E54EA0C10F&ID=6788510","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"mortality","title":"2026 heat-mortality report","publisher":"NYC Department of Health","url":"https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/data-features/heat-report/","published":"2026-06-15","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"funding","title":"Current cooling funding and unmet demand","publisher":"NYC Department of Health","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2026/nyc-health-department-releases-report-on-heat-related-deaths.page","published":"2026-06-15","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"return2022","title":"FY2022 original IRS990","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202343069349303004/IRS990","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"schedule2022","title":"FY2022 original IRS990ScheduleD","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202343069349303004/IRS990ScheduleD","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"return2023","title":"FY2023 original IRS990","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202443169349303479/IRS990","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"schedule2023","title":"FY2023 original IRS990ScheduleD","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202443169349303479/IRS990ScheduleD","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"return2024","title":"FY2024 original IRS990","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513219349324771/IRS990","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"schedule2024","title":"FY2024 original IRS990ScheduleD","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513219349324771/IRS990ScheduleD","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"heat","title":"Heat, health and equity campaign","publisher":"WE ACT","url":"https://weact.org/programs/heat-health-equity/","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-10-07"},{"id":"agenda","title":"2026 policy agenda, published before final cooling-law enactment","publisher":"WE ACT","url":"https://weact.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2026-Policy-Agenda-112025.pdf","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"impact","title":"2024–2025 impact report","publisher":"WE ACT","url":"https://weact.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/WE-ACTs-2024-2025-Impact-Report-Final.pdf","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"affiliate","title":"Original affiliate disclosure","publisher":"WE ACT / IRS","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513219349324771/IRS990ScheduleR","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"donate","title":"Ordinary charitable donation route","publisher":"WE ACT","url":"https://weact.org/donate/","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"}]}