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Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc

To promote responsible energy solutions for our nation's energy needs.

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEARPATH ACTION$250,000
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE USA$150,000
CENTERLINE ACTION$50,000
KEYSTONE POLICY CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMAN AND CLIMATE INC: $7k → 17%Security Is Strength PAC: $150k → 10%Alaskans for LISA: $100k → 14%THE GOVERNING MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 13%Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future: $100k → 16%1820 PAC: $250k → 5%Governing Majority Education Fund: $20k → 17%Conservatives for a Clean: $20k → 8%CLEARPATH ACTION: $250k → 10%Community Leaders of America: $25k → 6%Senate Leadership Fund: $300k → 6%BCSE Foundation: $5k → 14%International Conservation Caucus Foundation: $10k → 6%Clean Future Action Fund: $1.5M → 14%CENTERLINE ACTION: $50k → 14%Republican Governors Assoc: $100k → 14%Republican Governors Association: $100k → 14%Republican Governors Association: $100k → 14%KEYSTONE POLICY CENTER: $10k → 14%Republican Governors Association: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
MI
NY
VA
NC
SC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$944k · 3 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$944k
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CO
    Chamber of Commerce of the USA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $499k · revenue +11%
  • RG
    Republican Governors Association
    4× · 2019–2023 · $400k
  • GM
    GOVERNING MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CF
    Clean Future Action Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +76%
  • SL
    SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • 1P
    1820 PAC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions

Our mission is to strengthen and sustain our global environment for future generations by expanding economic freedom and accelerating free enterprise innovation.

2
Clean Energy Group Inc

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.

Environment
3
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

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.

Environment
4
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
5
Conservative Energy Network

To champion secure, reliable, affordable, clean American energy.

Environment
6
Clean Energy for America Inc

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…

Environment
7
Clearpath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc

Clearpath action advocates for more clean energy innovation, modernized permitting and regulatory reform, america's global competitiveness for manufacturing, and unlocking more american resources.

8
Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions Action Inc

Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions Action promotes practical, free market public policy and technology solutions to major climate andenvironmental challenges.

Environment
9
Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc

Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.

10
American Common Ground Council Inc

ConservAmerica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of market based energy, environmental, and conservation policy.

Environment
11
Conservative Climate Foundation Inc

Engage and inform the public and policymakers about reducing global and domestic emissions with common sense, economic and environmentally sustainable strategies and solutions based on conservative principles

Environment
12
Clean Future Forum Inc

To research, develop, and educate the public and policymakers about the economic growth and emissions reduction benefits of clean energy.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc and the most unlike its peers is Taste of the South. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chamber of Commerce of the USA — $499,000 · OtherChamber of Commerce of the USARepublican Governors Association — $400,000 · OtherRepublican Governors AssociationSENATE LEADERSHIP FUND — $300,000 · OtherSENATE LEADERSHIP FUND1820 PAC — $250,000 · Other1820 PACSecurity Is Strength PAC — $150,000 · OtherSecurity Is Strength PACConservatives for a Clean Energy Future — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · Other+3 more — $80,000 · OtherClean Future Action Fund Inc — $1,500,000 · EnvironmentClean Future Action Fund IncCLEARPATH INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentCLEARPATH INC+3 more — $37,000 · EnvironmentCENTERLINE ACTION INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsTASTE OF THE SOUTH — $16,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,879,000Environment$1,787,000Civil Rights$50,000Philanthropy$16,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetClean Future Action Fund Inc — $1,500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA — $499,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetConservatives for a Clean Energy Future — $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCENTERLINE ACTION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGOVERNING MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTASTE OF THE SOUTH — $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Conservative Caucus Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEYSTONE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen and Climate Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Edison Electric Institute IncDC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · Biotechnology Innovation Organization

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 Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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