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CONSERVATIVE TEXANS FOR ENERGY INNOVATION FOUNDATION

EIN 83-4298449 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2024
$377,395
Expenses 2024
$272,607

Program services were 98.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
9600 ESCARPMENT BLVD SUITE 745-274

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CTEI IS A CLEAN ENERGY EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION LAUNCHED TO PROMOTE ENERGY INNOVATION AND CLEAN ENERGY POLICIES GROUNDED IN THE CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLE OF COMMON SENSE, MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS THAT ALLOW FAIR COMPETITION AND PROVIDE GREATER ACCESS TO CLEAN, AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE ENERGY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CLEAN ENERGY EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION WORKING TO ADVANCE THE CLEAN ENERGY INDUSTRY IN TEXAS.

  • WE BELIEVE THE ENERGY INDUSTRY IS UNDERGOING AN UNPRECEDENTED EVOLUTIONONE THAT IS SHIFTING AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF USING FOSSIL FUEL GENERATION MANAGED BY CENTRALIZED MONOPOLY UTILITIES TO A SYSTEM THAT PRIORITIZES THE USE OF ADVANCED EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, MARKET COMPETITION, AND CUSTOMER CHOICE TO FUEL THE ECONOMY.AS THIS TRANSITION OCCURS, WE WORK EVERY DAY TO ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM THAT LEVERAGES THE POWERFUL FORCES OF FREE MARKETS OVER HEAVY-HANDED GOVERNMENT MANDATES. WE BELIEVE THIS MARKET-BASED APPROACH WILL LEAD TO THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT OUTCOMES FOR CONSUMERS, THE ECONOMY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

    Expenses $268,382

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Matt Welch

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lori Franzke

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Clay Nettleship

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Sweet

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $377,395
    Expenses
    $272,607
    Contributions
    $377,395
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $155,498
    Expenses
    $273,596
    Contributions
    $155,498
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $325,265
    Expenses
    $311,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,840

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • CONSERVATIVE TEXANS FOR ENERGY INNOVATION

    501(C)(4) · ADVOCACY · TX

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2024.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.