Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,718 to it, the largest being THE SOLAR FOUNDATION ($261,718). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- City First Enterprises Inclocal
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio match
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $110k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Gas Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Resources Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advocates for Climate Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Solar Energy Industries PAC · exempt
- Solar Energy Industries Association California PAC · exempt
- Solar and Storage Industries Institute · exempt
- Community Clean Energy Coalition · exempt
- Solar Energy Trade Shows LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION?
- SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,718 to it, the largest being THE SOLAR FOUNDATION ($261,718). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $301,718 in grants to SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION?
- THE SOLAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $261,718 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing