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SOLAR RESPONDERS INC

SOLAR RESPONDERS INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,822 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($367,798). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$180k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$964k
Net assets
$466k
6/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Solar Responders Inc does

Mission

The organizations mission is to maximize the capacity of first responders to save lives with renewable energy. The organizations support comes primarily from foundations, corporations, and private donors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. First accomplishment - solar responders was formed in response to the puerto rico fire departments demand for reliable power after hurricane maria struck puerto rico in 2017 causing the longest blackout in us history. As a result first responders were forced to use dirty, unreliable diesel generators to power their stations. As diesel fuel ran out and mechanical parts failed, first responders became stranded, unable to receive and send emergency calls. Solar responders installs, owns, and operates solar power and battery storage systems on first responders stations so emergency workers can focus on serving the public during power outages rather than keeping their diesel generators running. Abundant and reliable sunshine is more dependable, efficient, economical, and eco-friendly than fossil fuels. Our solar installations are designed to work 24/7, when the sun is not shining, and when the power grid fails. With solar power and battery storage, first responders will have the ability to communicate and save lives without disruption after a natural disaster.

    $178,057 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $178,057.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($407k) Expenses 100 ($211k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2021 Revenue 162 ($658k) Expenses 103 ($217k) Net assets 238 ($761k)2022 Revenue 64 ($258k) Expenses 150 ($316k) Net assets 220 ($703k)2023 Revenue 32 ($129k) Expenses 130 ($275k) Net assets 174 ($557k)2024 Revenue 11 ($45k) Expenses 65 ($137k) Net assets 145 ($464k)2025 Revenue 44 ($180k) Expenses 84 ($178k) Net assets 146 ($466k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (44)Expenses (84)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

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 $348k to $768k (+121%).

$348k
$768k
$709k
$560k
$465k
$467k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SOLAR RESPONDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$196k
’20
$441k
’21
−$57k
’22
−$146k
’23
−$92k
’24
$2k
’25
7.4
months of
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

Hunter Johansson

Founder/CEO

Board chair

Jeffrey Jimenez

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed224444
Joined···+1+0+0
No longer listed···100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $140k → $103k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SOLAR RESPONDERS INC’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

SOLAR RESPONDERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

75% 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 SOLAR RESPONDERS INC.

38%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 68% · 2021 51% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of SOLAR RESPONDERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SOLAR RESPONDERS INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
CT
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOLAR RESPONDERS INC's revenue fell 56% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOLAR RESPONDERS INC: 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 SOLAR RESPONDERS INC?
SOLAR RESPONDERS INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,822 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($367,798). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOLAR RESPONDERS INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $963,822 in grants to SOLAR RESPONDERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOLAR RESPONDERS INC?
DIRECT RELIEF is the largest funder on record, with $367,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOLAR RESPONDERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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