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Clean Future Action Fund Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$28M
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +147% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

+147%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +539%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
7
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
8
American Conservation Coalition Inc

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

Environment
9
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.

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10
Climate Innovation Action Inc

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

Environment
11
Climate Parliament Inc

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

International
12
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is West Virginia State Building & Construction Trade Council Afl-Cio. 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 22% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Breakthrough Energy A…The Heising-Simons Ac…Sixteen Thirty Fund
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clean Future Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clean Future Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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