Hydropower Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521851292
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 7038355475
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,041
- Expenses
- $147,496
- Assets
- $190,491
- Liabilities
- $9,513
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- ALISON COLOTELO (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANDREW PETERS (BOARD MEMBER)
- BILL CROWLEY (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We champion water power by preparing a robust and thriving industry workforce and establishing the u.s. Hydropower industry as a leading career destination.
What it reported doing in 2025
Waterpower clubs- student-led organizations established at colleges and universities, technical and trade schools to build awareness of waterpower careers, technologies, and policy. These clubs foster peer learning, industry engagement, and hands-on experiences through events, guest speakers, and collaboration with professionals in the hydropower sector.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 36.2%; rating input score 36
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: 11.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 36.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.