Washington · Nonprofit
REMOTE ENERGY
REMOTE ENERGY (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,376 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Remote Energy does
Mission
Remote Energy trains and mentors solar energy educators and technicians in underrepresented populations worldwide to bring energy independence career opportunities and improved quality of life to their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Through a grant Remote Energy worked with a team of Native solar and language speakers experts to develop solar PV curriculum videos to promote interest and career development in the solar energy PV industry among Native American communities. Videos were produced in English Dakota and Navajo languages.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Curriculum Development: In 2024 Remote Energy developed 192 hours of new curriculum for our classes. Included in that was: UAF Teacher Training 28 hours U3-U4 Labs 35 hours BRIDGE Pre Apprenticeship Program 129 hours.
$32,382 spent7% of program spendingInstruction: In 2024 Remote Energy trained 627 people 606 were students receiving solar technician training and 21 were educators receiving solar train-the-trainers courses. New Solar Educators received 49 mentoring experiences and our teacher trainings totaled to 1371 contact hours. Gender 74% women indirect beneficiaries impacted 6,340.
$183,939 spent$293,587 earned by the program41% of program spendingProject Management: Successfully managed and implemented 44 individual projects.
$234,435 spent52% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $450,756.
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 2020 to 2021, from $53k to $314k (+487%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of REMOTE ENERGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Katharine Rushton
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $188k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 REMOTE ENERGY’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
REMOTE ENERGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 REMOTE ENERGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 85% · 2021 75% · 2022 87% · 2023 35% — 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
0% of REMOTE ENERGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
REMOTE ENERGY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
REMOTE ENERGY has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding REMOTE ENERGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 REMOTE ENERGY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REMOTE ENERGY: 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 REMOTE ENERGY?
- REMOTE ENERGY (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,376 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REMOTE ENERGY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $701,376 in grants to REMOTE ENERGY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REMOTE ENERGY?
- JPMORGAN CHASE 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 REMOTE ENERGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), 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