Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Clean Future Action Fund Inc
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.
- $15M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,689,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Clean Future Action Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 | 8 | $15M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $4.7M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $6.2M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc | $10,260,893 | 5 | 69% |
| American Energy American Jobs Inc | $4,850,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Centerline Action Inc | $4,379,600 | 3 | 84% |
| Clearpath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc | $3,850,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,115,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc | $950,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $935,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | $825,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Climate Solutions Foundation Action Inc | $700,000 | 4 | 83% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc | $10,260,893 | 5 | 69% |
| American Energy American Jobs Inc | $4,850,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Centerline Action Inc | $4,379,600 | 3 | 84% |
| Clearpath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc | $3,850,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,115,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc | $950,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $935,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | $825,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Climate Solutions Foundation Action Inc | $700,000 | 4 | 83% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Conservation Coalition Action Inc | $212,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Securing America's Future Energy Alliance Inc | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future | $62,500 | 1 | 36% |
Where it is load-bearing
Clean Future Action Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Breakthrough Energy Action Inc · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund
How this is measured
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About Clean Future Action Fund Inc
- How much does Clean Future Action Fund Inc give?
- Clean Future Action Fund Inc reported 8 grants totaling $15,494,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Clean Future Action Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
- Who are Clean Future Action Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc ($10M), American Energy American Jobs Inc ($4.8M), Centerline Action Inc ($4.4M).
- Does Clean Future Action Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clean Future Action Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Breakthrough Energy Action Inc, The Heising-Simons Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
- Where is Clean Future Action Fund Inc based?
- Clean Future Action Fund Inc is based in DC.
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