Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Clean Energy Works
CLEAN ENERGY WORKS accelerates inclusive investments that open the clean energy economy to all.
- $144k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $40k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Clean Energy Works funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $225k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $150k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $282k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $239k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Organization of Resource Councils | $406,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Renew Missouri | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alaska Public Interest Research Group | $150,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Native Movement | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Partnership for Southern Equity | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Solar United Neighbors Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Windward Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Clean Energy Works
- How much does Clean Energy Works give?
- Clean Energy Works reported 1 itemized grants totaling $40,000, out of $144,247 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Clean Energy Works fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Public Benefit (39%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are Clean Energy Works's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Western Organization of Resource Councils ($406k), Renew Missouri ($200k), Alaska Public Interest Research Group ($150k).
- Does Clean Energy Works fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clean Energy Works?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Windward Fund.
- Where is Clean Energy Works based?
- Clean Energy Works is based in DC.
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