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· Public charity
Clean Future Action Fund Inc
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that will meaningfully address climate change.
$6.3M
Granted FY2021
7
Grants
5
Communities
$3.9M
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2021.
Environment$6.2MPublic Benefit$825kCommunity Improvement$700kOther$613k
02FY2021 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+5 grants · $6.1M
$300,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions$3,870,000
- Environmental Defense Action Fund$935,500
- Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc$700,000
- ClearPath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc$300,000
- Climate Solutions Foundation Action$250,000
- American Conservation Coalition$62,500
- Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future$62,500
02The need
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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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Clean Energy Group Inc
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
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
3
Citizens for Responsible Energy
CRES Forum is committed to educating the public and influencing the national conversation about commonsense clean energy.
Environment
4
Clean Future Action Fund Inc
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that will meaningfully address climate change.
Environment
5
Clean Air Council
Clean Air Council is a publicly supported environmental organization serving Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. It is dedicated to protecting and defending everyones right to breathe clean air.
Environment
6
Partnership for Policy Integrity
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses science, communications, and strategic advocacy to protect forests and our climate future.
Environment
7
Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc
To support policies that reduce global emissions and improve u.s. competitiveness.
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8
Center for Energy and Environment
The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is a clean energy nonprofit with decades of special expertise in energy efficiency. Working in homes, buildings, and communities, CEE discovers and deploys the most effective energy solutions to…
Environment
9
The Partnership Project Action Fund
Helps environmental community work collaboratively to defend safeguards from efforts to weaken them.
Environment
10
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
11
United for Clean Power
United for Clean Power is focused on public policies that build a 21st century energy future.
Environment
12
National Caucus of Environmental
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$6,233,500Public Benefit$825,000Community Improvement$700,000Other$612,500
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 Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions ↗
- Who funds Environmental Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds Environmental Defense Action Fund ↗
- Who funds Bipartisan Policy Center ↗
- Who funds Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc ↗
- Who funds ClearPath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc ↗
- Who funds National Audubon Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Climate Solutions Foundation Action ↗
- Who funds American Conservation Coalition ↗
- Who funds Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future ↗
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.
Breakthrough Energy Action IncWA18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Breakthrough Energy Action Inc · The Heising-Simons Action 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 organisation Clean Future Action Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Climate Solutions Foundation Action.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 854132590 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Climate Solutions Foundation Action, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Clean Future Action Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Clean Future Action Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines