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Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Environment$28M
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $435k
  • $250k+5 grants · $15M
$2,689,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Energy American Jobs Inc$4,850,000
Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions$3,670,000
Clearpath Action for Conservative Clean Energy Inc$3,550,000
Centerline Action$2,689,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Action$250,000
Climate Solutions Foundation Action$200,000
American Conservation Coalition$150,000
Securing America's Future Energy Alliance Inc$85,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Securing America's Future Energy Alliance Inc: $85k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 6 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$20M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10M · revenue +15% · 69% of their budget
  • CA
    CENTERLINE ACTION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +147% · 84% of their budget
  • CA
    CLEARPATH ACTION FOR CONSERVATIVE CLEAN ENERGY INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +121%
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUNDgraduated
    3× · 2021–2023 · $936k · revenue +26%
  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $825k · revenue +37%

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

04Your 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.

1
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
2
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Bipartisan Climate Action

Bca is investing financial, political, and grassroots resources to strengthen and grow the bench of members of congress working together to address climate change.

Civil Rights
8
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.

9
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
10
Climate Innovation Action Inc

To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.

Environment
11
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
12
American Conservation Coalition Inc

The american conservation coalition inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to building the conservative environmental movement.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $10,260,893 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,115,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $935,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND+2 more — $462,500 · EnvironmentAmerican Energy American Jobs Inc — $4,850,000 · OtherAmerican Energy American Jobs IncCLEARPATH ACTION FOR CONSERVATIVE CLEAN ENERGY INC — $3,850,000 · OtherCLEARPATH ACTION FOR CONSERVATIVE CLE…CLIMATE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ACTION INC — $700,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ACTION I…+1 more — $62,500 · OtherCENTERLINE ACTION INC — $4,379,600 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE ACTION…BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC — $950,000 · Community ImprovementBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $825,000 · Public BenefitSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $85,000 · Human Services
Environment$12,774,393Other$9,462,500Civil Rights$4,379,600Community Improvement$950,000Public Benefit$825,000Human Services$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $10,260,893 over 5y, 69% of budgetCENTERLINE ACTION INC — $4,379,600 over 3y, 84% of budgetCLEARPATH ACTION FOR CONSERVATIVE CLEAN ENERGY INC — $3,850,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,115,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC — $950,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $935,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $825,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION ACTION INC — $700,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION ACTION INC — $212,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetConservatives for a Clean Energy Future — $62,500 over 1y, 36% of budget
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.

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 IncWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Breakthrough Energy Action Inc · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty 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 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clean Future Action Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Clean Future Action Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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