California · Nonprofit
SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND
SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,000 to it, the largest being PERMIT POWER EDUCATION FUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Solar Rights Education Fund does
Mission
The Solar Rights Education Fund educates the public and policymakers about matters relevant to consumer solar energy and battery storage in california.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Streamlining rooftop solar permitting wrapped up a multi-year effort to help local governments comply with the solar access act and adopt an automatic, instantaneous process for issuing residential solar and storage permits. Thanks to these efforts, 80% of californians live in a city or county with instant solar permitting. Published a guidebook for how we did it, and did several presentations to organizations around the country who are interested in replicating our efforts.
$43,023 spent50% of program spendingThe solar help desk: consumer education and protection working jointly with the solar rights alliance, fielded calls and emails from consumers to help them answer questions and troubleshoot problems. Conducted ongoing research on the latest best consumer best practices and updated our online consumer guide accordingly.
$25,814 spent30% of program spendingRebutting utility misinformation about rooftop solar and exposing utility influence in california politics continued working with researchers and economists to compile and update data showing how rooftop solar saves all ratepayers money, debunk misinformation about rooftop solar coming from both the utilities and the newsom administration, and the scale of utility donations to candidates for office and non-governmental organizations.
$17,209 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,046.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $98k (+80%).
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.
100% of SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND’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 RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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 SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND.
“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
100% of SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: 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 RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND?
- SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,000 to it, the largest being PERMIT POWER EDUCATION FUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $89,000 in grants to SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND?
- PERMIT POWER EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLAR RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2025), 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