California · Nonprofit
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,372,952 to it, the largest being SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $-124580
What Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies does
Mission
CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and environmental affiliates carry out our work through a set of focused advocacy programs. We act as participants and intervenors before all the major governmental energy, climate, and air-quality agencies. CEERT is pressing for the necessary changes in grid operations, renewable procurement, and climate policies that will enable California to reach its groundbreaking new energy and greenhouse-gas reduction goals, and put the entire Western region on the path to a low-carbon electric system and a clean-energy future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2023, CEERT accomplished the following:CEERTs multi-year advocacy was instrumental in a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Decision adopting a Preferred System Plan that meets an unprecedentedly low 25-million metric ton greenhouse-gas emissions target for the power sector by 2035. This PSP portfolio will enable California to meet its ambitious climate and clean-energy goals, and to reduce GHG emissions on the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) grid by 85% in 2045 while achieving a level of 113% clean energy (including exports). CAISOs 2022-2023 Transmission Plan (TP) mapped a 2032 base scenario of 26,597 mega-watts (MW) in new clean generation, while a more far-reaching 2035 sensitivity scenario studied transmission needs for 70,489 MW of clean resources. CEERT successfully argued at the CAISO and CPUC that this sensitivity scenario be the base case for the 2023-2024 TP. We are now advocating for an even more aggressive base case in the 2024-2025 TP. Partnered with our affiliates Latino Equity Advocacy and Policy Institute and Golden State Clean Energy/Westlands Solar Park to realize the San Joaquin Valley's potential for 30,000 megawatts of new…
$1,013,202 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,013,202.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $545k to $2.1M (+284%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $438k → $85k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.8M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies raised.
From the IRS filings of Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies’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 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 45% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 86% · 2022 96% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
22% of Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $857k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies: 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 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies?
- Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,372,952 to it, the largest being SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,372,952 in grants to Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies?
- SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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