Illinois · Nonprofit
THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE
THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,826,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,121,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Thorium Energy Alliance does
Mission
The mission of the Thorium Energy Alliance (tea) since 2006, has been educating the world on the uses and advantages of thorium as a fuel for nuclear power and as a critical material derived from the rare earth metals refining process for free. Tea has made significant progress in reviving research and promoting the many industrial applications of thorium. We support the training of young women and men in the technologies around the use of thorium for fuel, medicine, catalysts, alloys, coatings, and superconducting materials. Tea has spent countless hours and resources helping decision.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support the use and educate the world on thorium as a fuel for nuclear power.
$1,163,347 spentof which $907,470 as grants$11,093 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,163,347.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $1.4M (−17%).
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.
102% of THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $295.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THORIUM 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
THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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 THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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
THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 THORIUM 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THORIUM 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 THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,826,157 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,121,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,826,157 in grants to THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,121,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THORIUM ENERGY ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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