California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FUTURES UNBOUND ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Center for Community Energy does
Mission
CCE was created in late 2019 as a separate organization in order to function as an intervenor before the California Public Utilities Commission. CCE was founded as an off-shoot of the San Diego Energy District, a non-profit founded in 2011 to advance the development of Community Choice Energy in the San Diego area. CCEs ultimate goal is decarbonization. To substantively contribute to achieving this critically important goal, CCEs mission is focused on accelerating sustainable local energy production and storage. CCEs Programs: To pursue its mission, CCE addresses and promotes the interests of private citizens, small businesses, underserved communities, and non-profits. As an intervenor before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), CCE works to influence the development of energy policy that will enable CA to achieve critical decarbonization goals while simultaneously improving our electric grid and reducing energy costs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2022, we conducted research for the County of San Diego to examine the problem of gas hot water heaters in multi-unit housing and how to replace these with heat pump units.
$23,000 spentof which $36,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $15k to $18k (+20%).
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.
85% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jose Torre-Bueno
Board Member & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY’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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,054 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY: 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being FUTURES UNBOUND ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY?
- FUTURES UNBOUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 2 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