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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 FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$175,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,200,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Clean Future Forum Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementAnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$19M38%
FY202413$12M31%
FY202310$11M50%
FY202213$14M38%
FY20216$12M50%
FY20205$5.9Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$73MEducation$75k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
WV
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($613k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Clean Future Forum Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAdvanced Energy Institute: $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetConservative Climate Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 13% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 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

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.

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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.

About Clean Future Forum Inc

How much does Clean Future Forum Inc give?
Clean Future Forum Inc reported 13 grants totaling $18,765,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Clean Future Forum Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%), Education (0%).
Who are Clean Future Forum Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum ($20M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($12M), Bipartisan Policy Center Inc ($11M).
Does Clean Future Forum Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clean Future Forum Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Breakthrough Energy Foundation, Deployus Inc, United States Energy Foundation.
Where is Clean Future Forum Inc based?
Clean Future Forum Inc is based in DC.

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 27 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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