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Clean Future Forum Inc

To research, develop, and educate the public and policymakers about the economic growth and emissions reduction benefits of clean energy.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Environment$73MEducation$75k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $825k
  • $250k+6 grants · $18M
$175,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc$5,200,000
ClearPath$4,950,000
Centerline Liberties$4,040,000
Clean Power Institute$2,500,000
Clean Energy Buyers Institute$750,000
Bipartisan Policy Center$500,000
C3 Solutions$175,000
Conservative Energy Network$150,000
American Conservation Coalition$150,000
Climate Solutions Foundation$100,000
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions$100,000
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$100,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation(SAFE)$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%I-11 Coalition: $2.2M → 11%DEPLOY-US: $150k → 16%National Audubon Society Inc: $750k → 17%Conservative Energy Network: $303k → 16%Conservatives for Clean Energy: $150k → 8%West Virginia State Building & Construction Trade Council: $400k → 18%C3 Solutions: $375k → 4%National Wildlife Refuge: $680k → 6%I-11 Coalition: $613k → 11%DEPLOYUS: $150k → 16%National Audubon Society: $300k → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $3.3M → 14%Conservative Energy Network: $300k → 16%C3 Solutions: $175k → 4%Environmental Defense Fund: $3.6M → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $3.2M → 14%Conservative Energy Network: $188k → 16%Environmental Defense Fund: $3.4M → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $1.7M → 14%Conservative Energy Network: $150k → 16%Environmental Defense Fund: $2.9M → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $1.5M → 14%Environmental Defense Fund: $1.0M → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $1.0M → 14%Environmental Defense Fund: $645k → 17%Clean Power Institute: $1.0M → 14%Clean Energy Buyers Institute: $750k → 14%Bipartisan Policy Center: $500k → 14%American Flood Coalition: $350k → 14%Clean Power Institute: $250k → 14%Conservative Climate Foundation: $250k → 14%Advanced Energy Economy Institute: $250k → 14%ClearPath: $5.0M → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $5.2M → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $4.5M → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $4.3M → 14%Centerline Liberties: $4.0M → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $3.8M → 14%Centerline Liberties: $3.5M → 14%Clean Power Institute: $2.5M → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $2.1M → 14%Centerline Liberties: $970k → 14%Clean Future Action Fund: $581k → 14%Clean Future Action Fund: $529k → 14%Citzens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum Inc: $500k → 14%International Conservation Caucus Foundation: $625k → 14%Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) Foundation: $150k → 14%International Conservation Caucus Foundation: $400k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
WV
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62M · 13 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +121% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$62M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
0%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsAnimalsArts & CultureScience & TechOther

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 FORUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20M · revenue +31% · 82% of their budget
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +121%
  • BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • I1
    INTERSTATE 11 COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $2.2M · revenue 0%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $680k · revenue +33%
  • IC
    I-11 Coalition
    one grant, 2023 · $613k

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
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
2
Climate Parliament Inc

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

International
3
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
4
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.

—
5
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
—
6
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
10
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
11
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc and the most unlike its peers is Interstate 11 Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%16%<5yr14%32%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr15%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%18%<5yr14%15%5–10yr18%33%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%2%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,975

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM — $20,491,278 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUMENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $11,514,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDCLEARPATH INC — $4,950,000 · EnvironmentCLEARPATH INC+11 more — $6,588,715 · Environment+11 moreBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $11,223,750 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY…CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $8,543,996 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LI…CLEAN POWER INSTITUTE — $3,750,000 · PhilanthropyInternational Conservation Caucus Network — $1,025,000 · OtherThe Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions — $800,000 · OtherI-11 Coalition — $613,250 · OtherWest Virginia State Building & Construction Trade Council — $400,000 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Other+3 more — $275,000 · OtherINTERSTATE 11 COALITION — $2,200,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $680,000 · Animals
Environment$43,543,993Public Benefit$11,223,750Civil Rights$8,543,996Philanthropy$3,750,000Other$3,313,250Community Improvement$2,200,000Animals$680,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM — $20,491,278 over 6y, 82% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $11,514,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $11,223,750 over 6y, 12% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $8,543,996 over 3y, 70% of budgetCLEAN POWER INSTITUTE — $3,750,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $1,337,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetClean Future Action Fund Inc — $1,110,309 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $1,050,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetConservative Energy Network — $940,906 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetThe Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions — $800,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $680,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC — $300,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetConservative Climate Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute — $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 F…Deployus IncUnited States Energy …Combined Jewish Phila…Citizens for Responsi…MultiplierThe Energy FoundationThe William & Flora H…The Cynthia & George …Silicon Valley Commun…Boston Foundation IncClean Economy Fund
Breakthrough Energy FoundationWA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Breakthrough Energy Foundation · Deployus Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum · Multiplier · The Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Clean Economy 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 Forum 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Forum Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Clean Future Forum 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 27 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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