California · Nonprofit
California Energy Alliance
California Energy Alliance (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,071 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA IBEWNECA LABOR - MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $29k
What California Energy Alliance does
Mission
The California Energy Alliance (CEA) unites representatives of a broad range of organizations concerned about energy and the build environment. As a member-based organization, CEA works to improve California's energy future and migration toward a Zero Net Energy horizon. CEA focuses on the promotion and realization of deep energy savings, sustainable energy generation, and integration. The Alliance actively participates in the development and implementaton of progmatic, environmentally and economically sound building energy standards and other initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purposes of the California Engergy Alliance are to improve California's energy future, and to advance the migration towards a "Zero Net Energy" horizon. Zero Net Energy (ZNE) refers to buildings and other facilities in which the net amount of energy produced by the facility's own renewable energy sources is equal to the value of the energy consumed by that facility. CALENERGY will support California's vision for a sustainable energy future by advancing the implementation of deep energy savings, renewable energy generation and integration. CALENERGY intends to unite representatives from a broad range of organizations dedicated to clean energy progress in and around the built environment. CALENERGY intends to actively participate in the development and implementation of pragmatic, environmentally and economically sound energy policies, regulations and initiatives that lead to the realization of a sustainable California.
$138,380 spent$262,242 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,380.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3k to $50k (+1788%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 66% · 2023 60% · 2024 67% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of California Energy Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Nica C Tanaka
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $58k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of California Energy Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
California Energy Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund California Energy Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of California Energy Alliance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
California Energy Alliance has grown faster than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like California Energy Alliance
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Energy Alliance: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Energy Alliance?
- California Energy Alliance (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,071 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA IBEWNECA LABOR - MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Energy Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $131,071 in grants to California Energy Alliance, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Energy Alliance?
- CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA IBEWNECA LABOR - MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Energy Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing