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GRID ALTERNATIVES

EIN 81-4042787 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$45,983,870
Expenses 2024
$52,915,329

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C35
Classification
1200
Street
1171 OCEAN AVENUE 200

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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of GRID ALTERNATIVES (EIN 26-0043353). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE ENERGY COST SAVINGS TO LOW-INCOME HOMEOWNERS THROUGH INSTALLATION OF SOLAR ELECTRIC SYSTEMS AND TRAINING IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY, WHILE PROVIDING HANDS-ON SOLAR INSTALLATION OPPORTUNITIES TO JOB TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GRID ALTERNATIVES ENVISIONS A RAPID, EQUITABLE TRANSITION TO A WORLD POWERED BY (SEE SCHEDULE O)RENEWABLE ENERGY THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE. OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD COMMUNITY-POWERED SOLUTIONS TO ADVANCE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH RENEWABLE ENERGY.

  • GRID IS THE NATION'S LARGEST NONPROFIT INSTALLER OF CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, GRID DEVELOPS AND IMPLEMENTS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS THAT SERVE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES. GRID CREATES AND INSTALLS SOLAR PROJECTS THAT SERVE LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS AND COMMUNITIES, AND IS ENABLING THESE COMMUNITIES TO ACCESS A VARIETY OF CLEAN MOBILITY AND BATTERY STORAGE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS. THROUGH OUR UNIQUE, PEOPLE-FIRST MODEL, WE ARE PUTTING MONEY BACK INTO FAMILIES' POCKETS, REDUCING THE ENERGY COST BURDEN FOR HOUSING PROVIDERS, AND JUMPSTARTING CLEAN ENERGY CAREERS. WE PARTNER WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS, JOB TRAINING GROUPS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, MUNICIPALITIES, UTILITIES, TRIBES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO MAKE CLEAN ENERGY A WIN FOR EVERYONE. (SEE SCHEDULE O)GRID 'S PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE: NO-COST SOLAR INSTALLATIONS, HAND-ON SOLAR TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND SOLAR INSTALLATION FOR MULTIFAMILY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, COMMUNITY/SHARED SOLAR PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION, LOW INCOME SOLAR POLICY LEADERSHIP, LOW INCOME PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, ENERGY ACCESS PROJECTS IN U.S. TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, AND CONNECTING LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLE PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $45,261,849 · Revenue $31,508,444

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.

  • ERICA MACKIE

    PRESIDENT - GRID SAN DIEGO

    Total calculated
    $205,366
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $202,881
    Other
    $2,485
    Hours/week
    1 + 32 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $202,881 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $1,885 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $600 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $205,366 related

  • KARINNA GONZALEZ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NORMA MEDINA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROXANA MEJIA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON KEYES

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RAHIMA BUTLER

    BOARD CHAIR - GRID GLA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANTHONY HERNANDEZ THRU 1224

    VICE CHAIR/TREASURER - GRID GLA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL TENENBAUM

    SECRETARY - GRID GLA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK OLREE

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID GLA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN MIMMS

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID GLA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SALVADOR NUNEZ

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID GLA (THRU 5/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX MORRIS

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DERRICK ROSS THRU 0924

    SECRETARY - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC POFF

    TREASURER - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK HAWLEY

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KACEY LIZON THRU 1224

    PRESIDENT - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAT BARRETT

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIE JOE MARQUEZ

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID N. VALLEY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE PUDDEPHATT

    PRESIDENT - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE PIERCE

    SECRETARY - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BLAINE BOYER

    TREASURER - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX SAUCEDO

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIKITA POINDEXTER

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACY WOODBURN

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARI HOVARTH

    BOARD MEMBER - GRID INLAND EMPIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $45,983,870
    Expenses
    $52,915,329
    Contributions
    $14,370,297
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $43,800,270
    Expenses
    $44,910,415
    Contributions
    $16,929,769
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $40,833,858
    Expenses
    $42,087,465
    Contributions
    $10,761,202
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,853,183
    Expenses
    $32,695,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,269,792

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,071,662
    Expenses
    $39,036,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,654,831

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,765,734
    Expenses
    $35,034,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,891,262

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,785,947
    Expenses
    $27,560,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,106,854

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,448,343
    Expenses
    $20,305,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,603,011

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $28,903,852
    Expenses
    $24,716,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,251,743

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 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.