Center for Strategic Policy Innovation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831162363
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Phone
9496322239
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Energy Resources Conservation and Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$155,812
Expenses
$127,990
Assets
$5,353
Liabilities
$54,144

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kevin Daehnke (President)

People named in this filing

  • Kevin Daehnke (President)
  • Patricia E Daehnke (Secretary/Treasurer)
  • Charles Howland (Board member)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are focused on clean, renewable energy, climate change, and infrastructure resiliency.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided training for city/county/tribal/NGO/CBOs on how to do solar, battery storage/microgrid site selection, system sizing, financial modeling and power engineering modeling. This included the testing of the deployment strategies for public health and safety purposes (during power outages and otherwise).Advised on numerous programs designed around training, modeling and building out solar/battery-anchored microgrids to provide community health and resiliency protections and educate residents, workforce and business community in adopting such systems.City of Ann Arbor, Michigan: Assisted with modeling solar, battery storage, microgrid and geothermal heat pump aspects of a community center at a park and a fire station. City of Lansing, Michigan: Assisted in the strategizing for buildout of several community center microgrids and solar panels at a wastewater treatment plant, and the designing of a geothermal heat pump system for a government complex that is being built.Provided advice and assistance as to solar/battery storage-anchored modeling and buildout for energy resiliency purposes to numerous community champions throughout the country, mostly in impacted communities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 10.11; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.