Texas · Nonprofit
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,465 to it, the largest being The Ovintiv Foundation ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Switch Energy Alliance does
Mission
The Switch Energy Alliance (sea) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to addressing the dual challenge of energy access for all with minimum impact to the environment. Sea promotes an objective, nonpartisan, and sensible energy-educated future through its films, website, university engagement, and online learning platform.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Energy switch: sea produces a television talk show which explores the intersection of energy, the environment, and the economy. Dr. Tinker hosts leading experts with different viewpoints on each episode where they engage in deep, civil discussions on critical issues. Seasons 1-8 are streaming on pbs.org, reaching 100 million households. Season 8 is also available on the sea website. Seasons 1-7 are available as a podcast.
$1,199,116 spent54% of program spendingSwitch classroom: sea delivers credible, objective energy education to k-12 educators, reaching 2,900,000 students through standards-aligned content (over 400 lessons, activities, alignment guides and an extensive online resource library).
$492,189 spent22% of program spendingSwitch competition: sea engages university students directly and coninuously through experiential learning and leadership programs. More than 4,500 university students from 63 countries and 6 continents have participated to identify practical solutions to energy poverty.
$260,923 spent12% of program spendingWebsite, social media and marketing: sea's website (www.switchon.org) allows the public to access the most remarkable film-based energy content in the world. Switch materials have over 28 million trackable views on our website and youtube. Our social media efforts are present across facebook, instagram, linkedin, twitter, and youtube. In addition, sea chairman dr. Scott tinker gives presentations and keynote speeches to tens of thousands of audience members each year.switch on: sea's recent film switch on was one of the first to shine a light on the billions of people with little or no energy, and the benefits and challenges of powering the last third of the planet. Switch on can be streamed online for free on the sea website, on youtube, and on prime video. Switch on the series features seven 20-minute episodes that take us deeper into each location and are streaming on pbs.org. Content from switch on has been incorporated into classroom.switch academy: sea's online platform for professional education has come out of concept phase and is in early stages of development. It will be dynamic, engaging, spark critical thinking, and demonstrate a measurable increase in knowledge about…
$273,102 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,225,330.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $2.6M (+97%).
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.
95% of SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Scott Tinker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $75k → $887k.
13 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SWITCH ENERGY 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
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 80% · 2020 49% · 2021 63% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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 SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SWITCH ENERGY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SWITCH ENERGY 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 SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,465 to it, the largest being The Ovintiv Foundation ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,547,465 in grants to SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- The Ovintiv Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWITCH ENERGY ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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