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CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$1.8M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What California Solar Energy Industries Association does

Mission

California Solar Energy Industries Association dba California Solar & Storage Association supports the widespread adoption of solar thermal, photovoltaic systems and energy storage by educating consumers, supporting solar and energy storage legislation and regulation, and conducting business in a professional and ethical manner

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization supports solar energy and energy storage legislation and regulation; maintains a website to answer common questions about solar energy and energy storage; provides solar energy and energy storage training and information.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($850k)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.6M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 106 ($897k)2019 Revenue 86 ($1.5M) Expenses 98 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($853k)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.8M) Expenses 102 ($1.6M) Net assets 119 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 193 ($3.4M) Expenses 202 ($3.2M) Net assets 140 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 242 ($4.2M) Expenses 241 ($3.8M) Net assets 189 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 143 ($2.5M) Expenses 147 ($2.3M) Net assets 210 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 148 ($2.6M) Expenses 161 ($2.6M) Net assets 208 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (161)Net assets (208)

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 $1.2M to $1.6M (+36%).

$857k
$898k
$857k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$166k
’17
$48k
’18
−$45k
’19
$160k
’20
$175k
’21
$417k
’22
$182k
’23
$39k
’24
8.3
months of
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

Bernadette Del Chiaro

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1818232122222524
Joined·+4+7+4+4+4+6+3
No longer listed·4263434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION: 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 SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION?
CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION?
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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