Texas Hydrogen Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873296151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9792702045
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $210,564
- Expenses
- $241,377
- Assets
- $140,395
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- LAURA MERTEN (CHAIRMAN)
- BILL ZOBEL (VICE CHAIRMA)
- MICHAEL MARTINEZ (TREASURER)
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 broaden and enhance the understanding of opportunities for hydrogen in Texas and advocate for reshaping the states policy and regulatory framework to expedite the adoption of hydrogen technology. With the overall goal to support and maintain the states position as the energy capitol of the world, a coalition of industry leaders has assembled to pursue this task. The focus is on multiple aspects of the hydrogen industry including existing and future production, transportation and zero-emission freight movement, storage and refueling infrastructure, production and distribution of low carbon intensity (ci) hydrogen, electricity grid resiliency, energy storage, hydrogen from waste, creation of hydrogen hubs, all capitalizing on the synergies between natural gas and hydrogen. The alliance will engage with policy-makers, regulators, and the greater public in both education and advocacy activities. While the primary focus of tha will be on Texas, the alliance will seek to in
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted member meetings with state legislators during 89th legislative session to educate offices on hydrogen. Developed one page informational sheets on hydrogen, transportation and water usage for staffers and legislators. Introduced legislation during the session (nothing passed). Hosted Texas hydrogen day at the state capitol. Hosted monthly member meetings virtually featuring key speakers. Co-sponsored Texas hydrogen workshop with southwestern research institute. Actively participated in over 15 conferences. Held the first hydrogen training for first responders and fire marshals at the ut h2 protohub in austin. Held first weeklong hydrogen week featuring daily presentations from various Texas universities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.