Independent Energy Producers Inc

Overview

Mission

The Independent Energy Producers Association (IEPA) represents developers and operators of independent energy facilities and power marketers in California and the Western United States. IEPA actively supports competitive markets to provide electricity users with reliable, affordable, and clean electricity. IEPA members utilize clean energy resources including geothermal, wind, solar, biomass, energy storage, hybrid technologies, combined heat and power, and efficient natural gas generation. Since 1982, IEPA has actively represented the interests of its members in legislative and regulatory proceedings in California and before Federal agencies. IEPA has played an active role in addressing transmission issues in the Western energy market. IEPAs primary goals include enhancing competitive markets for electricity and safeguarding investments made in producing independent electricity facilities

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
• Transparency & Controls: 73
• Accountability: 74
• Sustainability: 47
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $325K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $176K reported
• Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
• Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
• 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.