Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371438788
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8013634046
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,309,853
- Expenses
- $2,356,192
- Assets
- $16,645,923
- Liabilities
- $324,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH WRIGHT (PRESIDENT &)
- SARA BALDWIN (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH WRIGHT (PRESIDENT &): $211,396 total reported compensation
- ERICA MARKEN (DEVELOPMENT): $153,229 total reported compensation
- KEVIN EMERSON (DIRECTOR OF): $147,761 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Utah clean energy's mission is to lead the clean energy transformation with vision and expertise. Our vision for the future is healthy, thriving communities for all, empowered and sustained by clean energy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Utah clean energy 2025 highlights: Utah clean energy is a solution-based, bipartisan 501(c)(3) corporation that has delivered solutions to strengthen our economy, help our communities thrive, and improve the health of Utah families. Our successes are not only driven by our staff but also through strong partnerships with community and business leaders. Comprised of a multi-disciplinary team, Utah clean energy is recognized as Utah's foremost expert on expanding renewable energy, energy efficiency, storage, and clean vehicles in a way that benefits Utah's environment, air quality, economy, health, and energy security. Utah clean energy's impacts at-a-glance: expert state utility regulatory engagement: our experts participated in multiple regulatory proceedings before Utah's public service commission in 2025 advocating for least-cost, least-risk energy planning, accelerated procurement of diverse energy resources (including geothermal, solar, storage, energy efficiency), improved customer and business programs that save energy and money, and continued expansion of strategic electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Transforming homes and buildings: we worked with leading builders on initiatives to accelerate adoption of best-in-class building measures that reduce pollution and increase energy affordability. We also hosted one commercial developer summit in 2025 to educate commercial developers on the practicalities and opportunities for integrating high performance and low- to zero-emissions building practices into their development projects. The climate innovation center as a community education resource: we hosted tours and events for representatives of the building sector, community leaders, educational institutions, organization, and other interested community members throughout the year. These educational convenings highlighted the center's innovative sustainable building measures and the various workplace and community benefits of low-impact building techniques to inform others of best practices accelerated electric fleet adoption: we worked with a cohort of fleet owners and operators throughout the state to develop case studies and best practices for fleet electrification based on real-world examples and shared experiences. Local and state government partnerships: we collaborated with numerous local governments and state agencies to advance shared goals for renewable energy deployment, energy efficiency and electrification, electric vehicle charging and access ordinances for multi-family housing, and innovative distributed resource solutions for energy affordability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.06; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $211K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.