Texas Fund for Energy and Environmental Education
(TFE3)
611 S
CONGRESS 200
AUSTIN, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 479-7744
Fax: (512) 479-7645
Tollfree: 1-800-580-8845
Email:
altman@seedcoalition.org
Primary current project:
Anti-Exxon Mobil campaign involving dozens of groups large and small
in an effort to destroy the world's largest petroleum company.
Formerly
Texas Citizen Fund
[501(c)(3)], a parallel group to
Texas Citizen Action
[501(c)(4)]. Both were originally allied with the
nationwide
Citizen
Action and
Citizen
Fund network. The Texas affiliates regrouped after Citizen
Action suffered an
organizational
meltdown due to its involvement in a 1997 money laundering
scandal with the Teamsters Union.
Texas Citizen Action
voluntarily dissolved in May, 2001.
1995
Income: $757,361;
Assets: $75,215. Exempt since 1991.
Employer ID: 74-2521976
Texas Citizen Fund changed
its name to Texas Fund for Energy and
Environmental Education July 30, 1998 shortly
after the Citizen Action scandal.
Texas Fund for Energy and Environmental Education
operates under six assumed names filed with the Texas
Secretary of State:
-
Citizen's Clean Air Project, filed
October 15, 1997
-
Sustainable Energy and Economic Development
(SEED) Coalition, filed March 23, 1998
-
SEED Coalition, filed March 23, 1998
-
Texas Citizen Fund, filed September 17,
1998
-
Campaign Exxon Mobil, filed November
30, 1999
-
Empower Democracy, filed March 1, 2002
Primary funder:
The Energy Foundation (9
grants totaling $517,000 since 1992),
a consortium of
7 large foundations with combined assets of $21 billion and
substantial investments in shares of oil and gas corporations other
than Exxon Mobil.
Website: TFE3 has no website of its own, but
an assumed name website is at
http://www.seedcoalition.org
Revenue and Expenses
Year 2000
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$311,530 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
|
Program Services |
$29,800 |
|
Investments |
$3,625 |
|
Special Events |
$0 |
|
Sales |
$0 |
|
Other |
$0 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$240,124 |
|
Administration |
$12,919 |
|
Other |
$7,611 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$260,654 |
|
|
Total Revenue |
$344,955 |
|
NET
GAIN/LOSS |
$84,301 |
Download TFE3's IRS Form
990s in Adobe Acrobat PDF format:
Form
990 2000 (841kb) [reveals SEED &
Campaign Exxon Mobil money]
Form
990 1999 (826kb)
Form
990 1998 (868kb)
Form
990 1997 (801kb)
EIN
74-2524314
Incorporated in Texas, January 17, 1989
Exempt since September, 1989
TFE3
paid $56,000 to Public Citizen (a Nader group) in 2000
Board of Directors, 2000
|
STACY ABEL,
Co-President |
REGGIE JAMES,
Co-President |
|
DAVID SMITH, BOARD MEMBER |
MARY ANN NEELY,
Secretary-Treasurer |
|
ENRIQUE VALDIRIA, BOARD MEMBER |
PATRICIA DALY,
BOARD MEMBER |
|
PETER ALTMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
|
 Peter
Altman salary, $54,210
New Yorker, moved to Austin, Texas 1990. Attended University of Texas,
1990-1994, bachelor's degree in sociology. Worked Ecology Action of Texas
1990-1993. Joined Texas Citizen Fund (TCF) 1994. TCF/TFE3 executive
director, 1996-present. Attended
Midwest Academy grassroots
activism training class (the Academy is part of Heather Brooks/Ira Arlook's Citizen Action
Network).
 Notable
Board Member: Sister Patricia A. Daly of the Sisters of Saint Dominic of
Caldwell, New Jersey; long-time anti-corporate activist with numerous
organizations. TFE3's Campaign Exxon Mobil, created in late 1999, bills itself as a
"faith-based campaign;" TFE3 IRS filings for 2000 list a grant of $31,000 to the campaign and
$116,684 in program service expenses. Sister Patricia appears on TFE3's
board of directors for the first time in 2000.
Other TFE3 salaries paid: $80,292. Benefits:
$13,319.
Harms: anti-corporate
campaigns to weaken economic strength of capitalist economies. Key organizer
of anti-Exxon Mobil campaigns. Networked with
GRANTS TO TEXAS FUND FOR
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION:
The Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: (1) To develop a report
on distributed generation pollution and the cleaner alternatives
available; (2)
To develop and advocate for rules that
limit polluting emissions of distributed
generation; and (3)
To educate the media, public,
and policymakers about distributed generation
pollution and clean distributed generation technologies.
AMOUNT: $51,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2001
Surdna Foundation,
Inc.
ABSTRACT: For Just Transportation Alliance to build, train and
support local citizen alliances in Texas
cities to increase informed citizen
involvement in transportation planning and implementation
AMOUNT: $100,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2001
DURATION: 2-year grant
Turner Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For Turning Up the Heat: Breaking the Global Warming
Roadblock, two-year, national public
education campaign designed to advance national
global warming policy by pressuring Governor Bush to develop
global warming policy for Texas
AMOUNT: $50,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: For ad campaign in support of global warming plan
AMOUNT: $40,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: For adoption of California Vehicle Program in Texas
AMOUNT: $46,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000
Surdna Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For Just Transportation Alliance, to build, train, and
support local alliances representing
elderly, low income, and disabled citizens
who are not represented in current transportation planning and
implementation in Texas Cities
AMOUNT: $50,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000
W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: For continued support to coordinate Texas Sustainable
Energy and Economic Development (SEED)
Coalition in promoting renewable energy
AMOUNT: $70,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999
The Educational Foundation of America
ABSTRACT: For Closing the Loophole
AMOUNT: $70,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
DURATION: 2-year grant
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: To investigate potential of advanced technology vehicle
use in Texas
AMOUNT: $30,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: To continue educational efforts of Texas Sustainable
Energy Economic Development campaign to
educate Texas media
AMOUNT: $20,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999
W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc.
ABSTRACT: To coordinate activities of Texas Sustainable Energy and
Economic Development Coalition in promoting renewable energy
AMOUNT: $30,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998
The Educational Foundation of America
ABSTRACT: For Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED)
Coalition
AMOUNT: $29,788 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: To continue Sustainable Energy and Economic Development
program's efforts to educate Texas policy-makers and media
about benefits of renewable energy
AMOUNT: $50,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995
DURATION: 2-year grant
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: For advocacy to advance renewable energy in Texas
AMOUNT: $50,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1993
DURATION: 2-year grant
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: For Texas Energy Coalition to educate environmental
community, policy-makers, media and others
about advantages of energy efficiency for
Texas
AMOUNT: $100,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1993
DURATION: 2-year grant
Energy Foundation
ABSTRACT: To jointly build Texas Energy Coalition that educates
environmental community, policy-makers and media about
advantages of energy efficiency for Texas
AMOUNT: $110,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1992
DURATION: 1 1/2-year grant
The Energy Foundation was launched in 1991 by The John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (assets
$4.1 billion), The Pew Charitable Trusts
(assets $2.8 billion),
and The Rockefeller Foundation (assets $3.1
billion). The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
(assets $124.9 million) joined as a funding partner in 1996, and The McKnight Foundation
(assets $1.9 billion) joined in 1998. In 1999, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
(assets $6.2 billion) joined to support two programs: the U.S. Clean Energy Program and
the China Sustainable Energy Program.
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