California · Nonprofit
THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK
THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,753,359 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,613,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What The Utility Reform Network does
Mission
The Utility Reform Network (TURN) is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation organized as a statewide consumer organization representing utility ratepayers in regulatory, legislative, and judicial proceedings before theCalifornia Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and in other forums, as well as providing a wide range of consumer services. Founded in 1973, TURN also handles complaints and grievances, conducts outreach to senior and low-income groups, provides educational information, community training and research, and acts as liaison between ratepayers and utility regulators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal - turn's legal team represented consumers in important regulatoryproceedings impacting the rates and services received by california utilityconsumers. Turn continued to advocate for enhanced consumer rights and enhancedutility accountability. Key wins resulted in substantial savings in avoided ratehikes and in utility shareholder cost responsibility. Turn won new protections fordisaster victims and medical baseline customers, and demanded improvements in crucial phone networks.
$4,753,271 spent$6,642,225 earned by the program72% of program spendingLobbying, organizing, and racial equity - turn held events and trainings that educate and empower advocates to help vulnerable consumers stay connected to essential utility services. Turn mobilized our members and supporters to speak out at california public utilities commission hearings and public meetings to demand fair rates, policies and practices, and universal access.
$1,256,125 spent19% of program spendingCommunications - turn spoke out in the media on behalf of consumers impacted bywildfires, planned shutoffs and unreliable phone service. Turn's media strategy putpressure on decision makers to reject utility bailouts and profiteering and putconsumers first. Turn's message was amplified through our use of social media, andturn's members received important information and opportunities for activism throughour newsletter, website and mailings.
$554,978 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,564,374.
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 2021 to 2022, from $8.5M to $16M (+94%).
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.
23% of THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
Beverly Tucker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $529k → $864k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK’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
THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
70% 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 THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 77% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 45% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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
33% of THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
77% of THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK
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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK: 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 THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK?
- THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,753,359 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,613,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,753,359 in grants to THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,613,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK 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.
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 22 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