Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Smart Electric Power Alliance
Smart Electric Power Alliance (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,042 to it, the largest being E4THEFUTURE INC ($122,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $32M
What Smart Electric Power Alliance does
Mission
The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) is an educational nonprofit working to accelerate the transition to a clean, affordable, and resilient energy system for all.SEPA collaborates with over 1,000 member organizations across the electric power sectorproviding unbiased research, education, and forums to advance decarbonization, grid modernization, and energy equity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research & Strategy - SEPA provides essential research, resources, and tools to support utilities and energy industry stakeholders in making informed decisions. Our goal is to help them navigate the unique challenges of today and prepare for the complexities of tomorrow.
$2,596,108 spentof which $76,111 as grants$746,329 earned by the program30% of program spendingMember Services - SEPA connects a diverse community of members, including utilities, technology providers, large energy users, government entities, academia, and nonprofits, to learn, engage, and share best practices. SEPA offers eight working groups where members collaborate on relevant issues and explore actionable solutions. Members also enjoy discounts on educational workshops, webinars, and expert-led courses covering the latest industry trends.
$3,006,417 spent$16,387,914 earned by the program35% of program spendingEducation -SEPA shares this information through public and member channels, offering education programs like onsite and virtual conferences, peer-to-peer learning, workshops, webinars, utility staff training, domestic and international fact-finding mission, and executive cohorts.
$2,986,351 spent$582,350 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,588,876.
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 2022 to 2023, from $24M to $33M (+37%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 18% · 2021 13% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Smart Electric Power Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Sheri Givens
President & CEO
Board chair
Paul Lau
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $9k.
1 of 5 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $64k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Electric Power Research Institute Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Smart Electric Power Alliance raised.
From the IRS filings of Smart Electric Power Alliance’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
Smart Electric Power Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Smart Electric Power Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 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
Smart Electric Power Alliance draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 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
Smart Electric Power Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Smart Electric Power Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record — $4.2M federal, $100k state.
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- Department of Energy$1.2M
- MD$100k
- MA$199
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 Smart Electric Power Alliance
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Solar Energy Trade Shows LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Smart Electric Power Alliance: 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 Smart Electric Power Alliance?
- Smart Electric Power Alliance (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,042 to it, the largest being E4THEFUTURE INC ($122,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Smart Electric Power Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $155,042 in grants to Smart Electric Power Alliance, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Smart Electric Power Alliance?
- E4THEFUTURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $122,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Smart Electric Power Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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