Center for Resource Solutions
Creating Policy and Market Solutions to Advance Sustainable Energy
Center for Resource Solutions
EIN: 94-3265560
as of November 2025
as of November 14, 2025
Mission
CRS is a national nonprofit with global impact. It develops expert responses to climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solutions. Its leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer-protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets.
Ruling year
1997
CEO
Jennifer Martin
Main address
1012 Torney Ave Fl 2
San Francisco, CA 94129-1704 USA
EIN
94-3265560
Climate change
Renewable energy
Population served
Adults
NTEE code
Energy Resources Conservation and Development (C35)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Climate change is the most significant environmental, social and economic challenge the world faces. Private and public sector leadership is essential to address this existential threat. Center for Resource Solutions provides leadership, innovation, engagement and best practices to accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy, working with both the private and public sector entities, and supporting individual action, in the U.S. and globally.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Renewable Energy Markets Asia Awards
The annual REM Asia Awards honor organizations, initiatives, and individuals making significant contributions to clean energy adoption across Asia. Recognizing leadership and innovation, the awards celebrate a diverse range of winners—from major corporations to market advocates—who are shaping the region's green power future. Eligible nominees include renewable energy users, developers, suppliers, and other key influencers in the market. Winners are selected by a panel of green power experts and recognized at the Renewable Energy Markets Asia conference, held annually in Singapore.
Green Power Leadership Awards
The Green Power Leadership Awards (GPLAs), presented by CRS, honors individuals, organizations, and programs driving growth and innovation in the renewable energy market. Awards recognize excellence in the categories of Market Innovation, Community Impact, Education and Awareness, and Leader of the Year. Winners are selected by a panel of green power experts and recognized at the annual Renewable Energy Markets conference.
CRS Services
CRS offers mission-driven advisory services to guide organizations through clean energy transitions and help them achieve meaningful decarbonization goals. Backed by decades of expertise, CRS develops renewable energy strategies, best practices, and scalable solutions designed for broad market adoption.
Clean Energy Tracking Collaborative
The Clean Energy Tracking Collaborative (CETC) is a stakeholder-driven initiative led by CRS that supports the advancement of energy tracking systems essential to the clean energy transition. By bringing together regulators, tracking operators, corporate buyers, and other industry players, CETC works to shape standards, provide technical guidance, and develop tools that enhance data capabilities and coordination across the U.S. clean energy ecosystem.
Clean Energy Accounting Project
The Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP), launched by CRS in 2020, provides standardized, stakeholder-reviewed guidance for clean energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting in both voluntary and regulatory markets. CEAP addresses complex reporting challenges, fosters collaboration among key stakeholders, and promotes best practices for accurate measurement, procurement, and impact reporting.
Policy and Market Development
CRS's policy and market-development program actively supports lawmakers, regulators, and advocates at all levels by providing expert guidance on renewable energy policy and carbon reduction strategies. Through policy engagement, public processes, and published research, CRS promotes transparency, integrity, and best practices in voluntary green power and carbon markets to ensure sustainable energy growth.
Green-e Renewable Fuels
Green-e Renewable Fuels certifies low-emission fuel products like biomethane (renewable natural gas) and is expanding to include renewable hydrogen, supporting the transition to a clean energy economy. The program ensures high-quality, verified, and transparent renewable fuel options for buyers, with standards designed to prevent double-counting and promote market confidence.
Green-e Marketplace
Green-e Marketplace helps organizations certify their renewable energy purchases and climate commitments while providing trusted marketing tools to promote them. With strong consumer demand—55% of Millennials are more likely to buy products with the Green-e logo and 78% of Americans seeking eco-friendly companies—Green-e Marketplace certification enhances brand credibility, supports sustainability leadership, and gives businesses a competitive edge.
Green-e Climate
Green-e Climate is a global third-party certification program that ensures carbon offsets meet the highest standards for quality and transparency. It verifies offsets through leading programs like the Gold Standard and VCS, while auditing how they are marketed and sold to protect both buyers and sellers. Green-e Climate is the only program to ensure full accountability and transparency throughout the chain of custody in the voluntary carbon offset market.
Green-e Energy
Green-e Energy, a program of CRS, has certified clean energy since 1997 to help consumers and businesses reduce the environmental impact of their electricity use. It ensures renewable energy is sourced from new facilities, marketed transparently, and verified from generation to retirement. The program covers options like RECs, PPAs, community solar, CCAs, utility green pricing, and time-based RECs.
Where we work
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Asia
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Canada
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Global
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North America
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South America
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United States
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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
CRS's programs accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy and climate mitigation.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
CRS programs are designed to engage key stakeholders and the public in effective action to address climate change. We do this through:
- Increasing confidence and access to high quality, impactful renewable energy options for consumers, businesses and organizations, driving new renewable energy project development;
- Defining and recognizing leadership in green power and providing educational and best practices resources to help other organizations and policy leaders drive change; and
- Supporting policy makers and key stakeholders, including the private sector and non-governmental organizations, in the transition to clean energy and the development carbon policies and practices that accelerate decarbonization in the energy sector.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
CRS's organizational capacity is founded in our central position in the clean energy space, the experience of our staff, and our years of organizational history of bringing best practices to real-time implementation of clean energy strategies, programs and advocacy. CRS is fundamentally a network organization, amplifying our impact and supporting our agile program development and engagement through connections to key NGO, governmental, and private sector stakeholders. Supporting our goals are our staff members who are energy, climate, engineering, planning, legal, negotiation, policy, and communications professionals, many of whom serve as Board members and advisors for leading renewable energy and sustainability organizations, programs and technical working groups. CRS has over two decades of experience in clean energy. Our long-standing position in shaping clean energy markets and policies to promote environmental impact and consumer and organization engagement places our organization as a trusted leader and conveyor for the clean energy marketplace.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
CRS is instrumental in creating market demand for renewable energy and expanding access to renewable energy and carbon reductions globally. CRS's Green-e(R) Certification programs and stakeholder-driven standards are now the basis for over 70 million MWh a year of sustainable renewable energy use in the United States, rivalling the total of all state-level renewable portfolio standards in its impact on new renewable energy development. CRS is working to expand the impact of this program internationally, with footprints in Asia and Latin America which are already supporting large-scale corporate commitments to new renewable energy. CRS is currently leading a stakeholder process to bring market organization and sustainability best practices to the emerging renewable fuels industry, leading environmental and industry stakeholders in the development of best practices for growth of sustainable biofuels and expanding consumer education and access to renewable energy.
CRS Policy and Market Development work has resulted in the adoption of effective carbon regulations that support impactful renewable energy commitments across the U.S. Northeast and in the West. Internationally, CRS has been instrumental in the adoption of effective renewable energy policy and supporting market-based approaches numerous countries in Asia and the Americas.
Finally, CRS produces best practices guidance that has been adopted by NGO and governmental actors, and continues to provide education and convening to support impactful growth, including through our long-standing partnership with the U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership program in awarding the annual Green Power Leadership Awards and creating and leading the annual Renewable Energy Markets Conference, which is expanding to Asia for the first time in 2021.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2023 info
3.26
Months of cash in 2023 info
9.3
Fringe rate in 2023 info
23%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
Center for Resource Solutions
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
This snapshot of Center for Resource Solutions’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $142,363 | $405,977 | $858,285 | $779,215 | $519,940 |
| As % of expenses | 4.5% | 14.7% | 30.5% | 19.6% | 9.8% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $135,039 | $401,253 | $858,285 | $729,760 | $416,269 |
| As % of expenses | 4.3% | 14.5% | 30.5% | 18.2% | 7.7% |
| Revenue composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $3,411,548 | $3,118,678 | $3,620,388 | $4,713,411 | $5,851,925 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 17.3% | -8.6% | 16.1% | 30.2% | 24.2% |
| Program services revenue | 83.5% | 80.8% | 84.8% | 87.5% | 80.5% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Investment income | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 3.3% |
| Government grants | 0.0% | 14.6% | 10.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 15.4% | 2.9% | 5.0% | 11.6% | 16.2% |
| Other revenue | 0.0% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Expense composition info | |||||
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| Total expenses before depreciation | $3,130,937 | $2,764,064 | $2,815,715 | $3,967,469 | $5,331,985 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 14.2% | -11.7% | 1.9% | 40.9% | 34.4% |
| Personnel | 65.1% | 75.2% | 75.1% | 68.7% | 70.3% |
| Professional fees | 11.7% | 11.2% | 11.1% | 10.9% | 8.8% |
| Occupancy | 6.9% | 6.8% | 6.0% | 5.5% | 3.8% |
| Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other expenses | 16.3% | 6.8% | 7.8% | 15.0% | 17.1% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $3,138,261 | $2,768,788 | $2,815,715 | $4,016,924 | $5,435,656 |
| One month of savings | $260,911 | $230,339 | $234,643 | $330,622 | $444,332 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $488,282 | $0 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $3,399,172 | $2,999,127 | $3,050,358 | $4,835,828 | $5,879,988 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Months of cash | 8.5 | 11.1 | 14.4 | 10.6 | 9.3 |
| Months of cash and investments | 8.5 | 11.1 | 14.4 | 10.6 | 9.3 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 5.8 | 8.4 | 11.9 | 9.3 | 8.0 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Cash | $2,217,930 | $2,564,745 | $3,375,429 | $3,489,198 | $4,151,884 |
| Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Receivables | $130,958 | $80,988 | $19,789 | $172,959 | $158,352 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $37,656 | $37,656 | $0 | $488,281 | $515,750 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 87.5% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 10.1% | 29.7% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 30.7% | 24.8% | 18.3% | 27.4% | 25.1% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $1,529,520 | $1,930,773 | $2,789,058 | $3,518,818 | $3,935,087 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $138,248 | $86,885 | $33,273 | $0 | $0 |
| Total net assets | $1,667,768 | $2,017,658 | $2,822,331 | $3,518,818 | $3,935,087 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
CEO
Jennifer Martin
Jennifer Martin brings more than two decades of NGO and private-sector experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency, distributed generation, electricity markets and technology development, and electricity sector and climate change policy and regulation. She is a founding board member of the San Francisco Carbon Collaborative, a member of the WREGIS Stakeholder Advisory Committee, a member of the State-Federal RPS Collaborative Advisory Group, and she served as technical chairperson of the WREGIS Operational Rules Committee. She is the author of several reports and papers addressing renewable energy and utility policy and technology assessment, resource planning, risk assessment, and environmental impacts, and has given numerous public presentations and media interviews. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Pomona College and Duke University.
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Center for Resource Solutions
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
Center for Resource Solutions
Highest paid employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
Center for Resource Solutions
Board of directorsas of 7/8/2025
Board of directors data
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Peter Mostow Director
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Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? yes
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