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BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY ACTION INC

EIN 85-3694865 KIRKLAND, WA

Revenue 2024
$4,748,389
Expenses 2024
$32,195,829

Program services were 98.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
C01
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 563

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The world's economic and energy policies are built around technologies that emit greenhouse gases. That must change. We develop and advocate for smart policies that public and private sector leaders can implement to support clean energy solutions.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Breakthrough Energy is accelerating transformation by supporting cutting-edge research and development, investing in companies that turn green ideas into clean products, and advocating for policies that speed innovation from lab to market. Through philanthropic programs, policy and advocacy efforts, and other initiatives, Breakthrough Energy works with a global network of partners to accelerate the technologies we need to build a carbon-free economy.

  • BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY ACTION ADVANCES ITS MISSION BY GRANT-MAKING AND WORKING WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS AND LAWMAKERS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, AND CONVENING, COALITION BUILDING, AND EDUCATION

    Expenses $31,768,853 · Grants $29,479,864

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Rodi Guidero

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 4 related

  • Greg Nelson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Cindy Leeper

    SECRETARY & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 14 related

  • Michael Boots

    EVP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 5 related

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
    $4,748,389
    Expenses
    $32,195,829
    Contributions
    $4,174,798
    Grants paid
    $29,479,864
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,350,335
    Expenses
    $19,119,779
    Contributions
    $153,484
    Grants paid
    $17,990,191
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $50,058,712
    Expenses
    $38,260,125
    Contributions
    $49,539,547
    Grants paid
    $34,793,663

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
    $40,710,518
    Expenses
    $43,503,931
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,032,686

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $61,027,137
    Expenses
    $763,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,943,660

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

  • Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Europe SARL

    C Corporation · FINANCIAL VEHICLE · LU

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