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PECAN STREET INC

PECAN STREET INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,004,192 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($3,119,063). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.3M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$6.0M
Net assets
$2.7M
3/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Pecan Street Inc does

Mission

Pecan Street Inc. Is a nonprofit corporation based in austin, tx. The organization: - engages in scientific research focused on technology, business model and customer behaviour surrounding advanced energy management systems. - funds research and scholarship opportunities for univeristy of texas researchers and students in fields related to advanced energy management systems and supporting technologies (such as wireless, energy storage, distributed generation, networking and semiconductor technologies).- supports technology commercialization programs and activities of the university of texas at austin.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Smart grid, energy storage, and clean technology demonstration.

    $2,623,745 spent$900,173 earned by the program
    70% of program spending
  2. Facilitating research and commercialization of climate change mitigation innovations for positive societal impact.

    $95,157 spent$32,647 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  3. Customer end-use energy and water data portal content, capabilities and access enhancement.

    $1,038,356 spent$356,247 earned by the program
    28% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,757,258.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 59 ($3.0M) Expenses 54 ($2.6M) Net assets 121 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 43 ($2.2M) Expenses 44 ($2.1M) Net assets 127 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 42 ($2.2M) Expenses 45 ($2.1M) Net assets 128 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 38 ($1.9M) Expenses 46 ($2.2M) Net assets 115 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 33 ($1.7M) Expenses 44 ($2.1M) Net assets 94 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 36 ($1.9M) Expenses 46 ($2.2M) Net assets 78 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 50 ($2.5M) Expenses 52 ($2.5M) Net assets 82 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 103 ($5.3M) Expenses 88 ($4.2M) Net assets 136 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (88)Net assets (136)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $3.4M (+60%).

$2.4M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$3.0M
$2.6M
$2.1M
$3.4M
$2.7M
$3.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 64% · 2019 37% · 2020 51% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% · 2024 18% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of PECAN STREET INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$347k
’17
$416k
’18
$113k
’19
$23k
’20
−$251k
’21
−$414k
’22
−$316k
’23
$74k
’24
$1.1M
’25
8.8
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

Anissa Jean Rodriguez Dickerman

CEO

Board chair

Mitch Jacobson

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed141614131616151713
Joined·+7+2+0+4+0+1+7+2
No longer listed·54110256
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.9M.

1 of 10 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 PECAN STREET INC’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

PECAN STREET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 62% · 2023 90% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of PECAN STREET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PECAN STREET INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
CA
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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

Against its field

PECAN STREET INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PECAN STREET INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record.

Federal$11.6M
grants $11.6Mcontracts $0
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22
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$10.0M
  • National Science Foundation$1.2M
  • Department of Agriculture$425k

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 PECAN STREET INC

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 Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pecan Street Labs LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds PECAN STREET INC?
PECAN STREET INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,004,192 to it, the largest being ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION ($3,119,063). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PECAN STREET INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $6,004,192 in grants to PECAN STREET INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PECAN STREET INC?
ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,119,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PECAN STREET INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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