California · Nonprofit
Center for Resource Solutions
Center for Resource Solutions (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,377 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($440,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Center for Resource Solutions does
Mission
Center for Resource Solutions (CRS or the Organization) promotes policy and marketsolutions to advance sustainable energy. Through its Green-e certification programs, policy advocacy, educational outreach, and expert guidance on renewable energy development and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, CRS focuses on ensuring that climate-mitigation actions are effective and additive, that high quality and high impact green energy and its benefits are accessible to all regardless of socioeconomic status, and that private-sector investments in the green energy transition complement ambitious policy commitments made at the local, state, and national levels.CRS works with a global network of stakeholders from government, civil society, and the private sector to support its demonstrated leadership in policy and advance its high-quality programs in clean energy markets. It develops expert responses to climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solution
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Green-e Certification Programs provide stakeholder-driven standards, consumer protection, and market-development support for renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction actions that are third-party verified and go above and beyond what is required by law and regulation.
$2,937,090 spent$4,528,880 earned by the program55% of program spendingPolicy and Market Development include advocacy to support effective policies and regulations that result in real impact for the climate and communities; creating consensus-based guidance involving stakeholders from civil society, government, and the private sector that results in real-time advancements in using clean energy to reduce climate impacts; and best-in-class expert assistance for organizations seeking to lead by example in providing and using renewable energy and achieving greenhouse gas reductions.
$1,488,861 spent$147,070 earned by the program28% of program spendingEducational Programs bring together an extensive set of resources, tools, and solutions supporting the green energy market, from decision makers like regulators and sustainability professionals to energy buyers and sellers. Materials include online resources, webinars, speaking engagements, and the market-leading Renewable Energy Markets conferences that take place annually in the U.S. and Singapore.
$952,986 spent$365,526 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,378,937.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $4.8M (+40%).
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: 2017 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Center for Resource Solutions’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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.
Board chair
Karl Rabago
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $90k → $440k.
1 of 3 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 Center for Resource Solutions’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 Resource Solutions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Center for Resource Solutions draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377 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
Center for Resource Solutions is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Center for Resource Solutions receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Center for Resource Solutions
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 Resource Solutions: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Resource Solutions?
- Center for Resource Solutions (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,377 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($440,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Resource Solutions have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $545,377 in grants to Center for Resource Solutions, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Resource Solutions?
- The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Resource Solutions 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.
Play a game about who funds Center for Resource Solutions →
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 3 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