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Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$2.1MPublic Benefit$995kCommunity Improvement$324kHuman Services$150kCivil Rights$50kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
VA
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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%
+20%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Conservative Energy Network

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

Environment
4
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
5
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
6
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.

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7
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.

—
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
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
10
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
11
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
12
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKEYSTONE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conservative Caucus Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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