Architectural Solar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823525577
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Boulder, CO, US
- Phone
- 3038595570
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,444
- Expenses
- $9,836
- Assets
- $18,772
- Liabilities
- $10,037
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Christopher Klinga (Director)
- Stan Pipkin (Director)
- Doug Claxton (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ASA is the leading industry advocate for solar architecture design.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the Association entered the third and final budget period of its three-budget-period award with the U.S. Department of Energy, continuing its collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to produce and deliver educational content on architectural solar to the building industry. During the year the Department of Energy placed the award under review and program funding was paused. As a result, the Association conducted its 2025 program activities at risk, without assurance of reimbursement. Despite this uncertainty, we continued to convene our Technical Advisory Group, advanced development of our architectural solar installation database, completed our quarterly project and management reporting, completed required NREL ethics training, and engaged with international building-integrated photovoltaic standards efforts. We also continued to support our member organizations through industry resources and networking opportunities. Program income recognized during the year was tied to work completed in 2024; labor performed in early 2025 remained unbilled or unpaid as of year-end, pending resumption of funding by the Department of Energy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -74.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -47.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.