Georgia · Nonprofit
SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE
SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND ENERGY INNOVATION FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative does
Mission
Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to serve as a trusted source of information on consumer's views of grid modernization, energy delivery and usage, and to help consumers understand the benefits of smart energy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research:in 2024, secc released four pieces of research and one companion white papers seeking to better understand smart energy consumers their perceptions, attitudes and needs and then leverage this understanding to formulate actions that utilities and other energy service providers can take to better serve and engage with their customers. In addition, secc produced four customer engagement case studies that profiled how energy utilities in the u.s. Are making significant strides in educating and engaging their customers about how to better control their energy use, the resulting utility costs and the benefits of shifting their consumption. All of these resources were put together by a volunteer-based research committee consisting of members who helped shape secc's research agenda, reviewed detailed findings and discussed the implications and presentation of those findings.secc released the most current version of its annual 2024 state of the consumer report, a meta-analysis of secc's 2023 research agenda that provides six big-picture themes on the needs and wants of today's energy consumers. The report t is a meta-analysis of secc's consumer research from the previous year that…
$258,282 spent54% of program spendingEducation:in 2024, secc continued to produce educational resources and increase learning opportunities. Through a volunteer-based education and outreach committee, members worked together to improve consumer awareness and understanding of modernized electrical systems by recognizing smart energy success, expanding available resources to stakeholders and amplifying the smart energy benefits message to consumers nationwide.secc continued a best practices awards program that identified leadership from energy providers shifting toward a more consumer-focused energy ecosystem. The fifth annual edition of the awards identified six winners hydro one, avangrid, pseg long island, nb power, comed and dominion energy. They were each recognized at the 2024 consumer symposium in orlando, fl. The awards program focuses on real-life examples of customer engagement and education success and highlights a blueprint for other electricity providers (and their industry partners) to follow.secc also hosted a series of nine free peer connect webinars concerning topics ranging from 2024 best practices awards, smart energy snapshot surveys, and understanding the smb landscape: new needs and concerns. Each…
$91,749 spent19% of program spendingCollaboration:during 2024, secc continued to maintain its unique membership base, including technology vendors and consultants, energy providers and affiliates, and added ten new members indicating the value in the research and educational materials produced as well as the collaboration facilitated. Secc presented at 20 conferences and workshops, in person and virtual, across the country. To further the reach of secc's research and educational materials, secc released 38 media centered press releases. In addition, secc was featured in over 2 articles in trade media.secc continued to collaborate among stakeholders including issuing a monthly e-newsletter and twelve additional president's post blog posts from secc's president & ceo nathan shannon on topics how do americans feel about grid modernization. Secc continued a consistent social media presence on x, facebook, linkedin and youtube. Throughout 2024, secc also continued the weekly above the fold, a newsletter that kept members and non-members abreast of smart energy and consumer industry news and trends.secc also hosted two conferences in 2024 including the annual consumer symposium, the consumers voice in the energy movement,…
$128,917 spent$363,491 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $478,948.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $497k to $263k (−47%).
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.
21% of SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Nathan Shannon
President & CEO
Board chair
Gomathi Sadhasivan
Director & chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE’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 ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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
SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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 ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE's revenue fell 52% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE?
- SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND ENERGY INNOVATION FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE?
- ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND ENERGY INNOVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART ENERGY CONSUMER COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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