Texas · Nonprofit
PowerHouse Texas
PowerHouse Texas (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,155,000 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $771k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $357k
What PowerHouse Texas does
Mission
PowerHouse Texas is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that educates and cultivates policy leaders who will promote energy innovation, securtity, and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Energy Innovation Forum This program serves as a platform uniting industry leaders, academics, policymakers, and community advocates to deliberate on groundbreaking energy technologies and policies.
$40 spentof which $2,500 as grants0% of program spendingThe Energy Policy Advisory Council EPAC brings together leading researchers and practitioners from energy institutes, universities and research institutions across Texas to educate legislators and staffers on the latest, cutting-edge research findings related to energy, environment and climate with the goal to help foster evidence-based policymaking.
$101,194 spentof which $2,500 as grants24% of program spendingThe Texas Energy Tours are a statewide initiative designed to give bipartisan lawmakers and their legislative staff a hands-on look at the real-world energy projects and innovations across Texas.
$6,315 spentof which $2,500 as grants2% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 305,910, Grants and allocations 2,500, Revenue 0 Energy Policy Fellowship The program launched to cultivate hands-on experience in policymaking and legislative processes. This is a paid program tailored for recent STEM graduates to work in bipartisan legislative offices.
$305,910 spentof which $2,500 as grants74% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $413,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $116k to $366k (+216%).
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.
95% of PowerHouse Texas’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Patricia Zavala
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $400k → $300k.
From the IRS filings of PowerHouse Texas’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
PowerHouse Texas has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 PowerHouse Texas.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 38% · 2023 42% — 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
57% of PowerHouse Texas's grant income comes from Texas 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
PowerHouse Texas runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PowerHouse Texas
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas House Caucus on Climate Environment and Energy Industry · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PowerHouse Texas: 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 PowerHouse Texas?
- PowerHouse Texas (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,155,000 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PowerHouse Texas have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,155,000 in grants to PowerHouse Texas, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PowerHouse Texas?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PowerHouse Texas 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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