Solar Austin
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141942762
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6502705202
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,618
- Expenses
- $89,020
- Assets
- $84,639
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Juan Afanador (Board President)
- Kaiba White (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Juan Afanador (Board President)
- Rachel Finn (Treasurer)
- Kaiba White (Board Vice President)
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
Solar Austin's mission is to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy in Central Texas by expanding access to the benefits of solar energy to everyone, thus mitigating climate change, providing jobs, creating healthy communities and supporting a stronger local economy.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization received funds to create community resiliency centers for other buildings and non profits in Austin. These solar and storage installations allowed businesses to increase their utility bill savings and energy resiliency, in addition to building economic alliances and educational opportunities to over 100 local organizations
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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.8%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.8% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 44/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.