· Public charity
Clean Economy Fund
Cleanecon works to advance economic growth, shared prosperity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $850k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $660,000 |
| CLEARPATH INC | $660,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC | $420,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $400,000 |
| POLICY ACTION FOR A CLEAN TOMORROW INC | $300,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS INSTITUTE | $266,503 |
| THIRD WAY INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS | $200,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $150,000 |
| CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS | $150,000 |
| BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $100,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY BUSINESS NETWORK | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION | $50,000 |
| ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE | $19,800 |
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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.
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.
Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
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.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Seia is the driving force behind solar energy and storage, building a stronger solar industry to power america through advocacy and education. representing organizations that promote, manufacture, install and support the development of…
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLEARPATH INC ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds Policy Action for A Clean Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds CE BUYERS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Climate Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SEEC Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
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: Breakthrough Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Clean Future Forum Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Clean Economy Fund 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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