California · Nonprofit
Potential Energy Inc
Potential Energy Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $258 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($258). 1 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 FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $258
- Net assets
- $34k
What Potential Energy Inc does
Mission
Potential Energy adapts and scales technologies that improve lives in developing countries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Potential Energy carried out the marketing, sales, and distribution of 2,210 energy saving biomass stoves throughout Uganda. We also trained each user on how to properly use the stove and carried out awareness campaigns on the environmental, financial and health benefits of improved cooking, impacting the lives of 11,050 Ugandans. We expanded our reach in 2025 by distributing the cookstoves through door-to-door campaigns directly connecting with households, road drives taking products to communities and exhibitions showcasing at key events. We also continued the partnership with Equity Bank to enhance financing access to reach rural and peri-urban areas of the country covering 10 districts.
$66,602 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,602.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $58k to $279k (+384%).
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.
96% of Potential Energy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Tyler Valiquette
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $129 → $50.
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 Potential Energy 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Potential Energy Inc'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. $258 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
Potential Energy Inc's revenue fell 63% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Potential Energy 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 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Potential Energy Inc: 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 Potential Energy Inc?
- Potential Energy Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $258 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($258). 1 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 Potential Energy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $258 in grants to Potential Energy Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Potential Energy Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Potential Energy Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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