Consumer Energy Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261658339
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7133378800
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,479,892
- Expenses
- $3,398,156
- Assets
- $1,810,779
- Liabilities
- $797,095
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID HOLT EX-OFFICIO (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN EICHBERGER (DIRECTOR)
- CHAD EATON (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- GLEN KEDZIE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to expand the dialogue between the energy & consuming sectors to improve overall understanding of the need for a balanced energy policy for America, including improved American energy security, better, more balanced national energy policies, stable energy prices for consumers and increased energy education for consumers & stakeholders.
What it reported doing in 2025
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND DIALOGUE PROGRAMS--expanded outreach to States to inform businesses and consumers about energy regulations, technology and role of public policy in helping to meet our current and future needs. This program support CEAs statespecific efforts to education citizens in the need for a balanced energy policy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.