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Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum
To educate the public and influence the national conversation about commonsense clean energy solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEARPATH INC | $300,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE CLIMATE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK | $150,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $90,000 |
| BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY | $50,000 |
| CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CICLEARPATH INC2× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +160%
- TCThe Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions2× · 2021–2023 · $275k · revenue +49%
- CEConservative Energy Network2× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $230k · revenue +100%
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -24%
- CFCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
ConservAmerica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of market based energy, environmental, and conservation policy.
Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.
CCEF works with policymakers and stakeholders across the nation to promote policies that secure affordable, reliable, and increasingly efficient and clean energy. Commonsense, market-driven energy policies will create local jobs, spark…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.
Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.
Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Capitol Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Conservative Climate Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEARPATH INC ↗
- Who funds The Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions ↗
- Who funds Conservative Energy Network ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEANTECH LEADERS ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds American Council On Renewable Energy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR CAPITAL FORMATION CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Clean Future Forum Inc · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Centerline Liberties Inc · American Gas Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · The Energy Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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