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· Public charity

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 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$73MEducation$75k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
American Conservation Coalition$150,000
Conservative Energy Network$150,000
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions$100,000
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$100,000
Climate Solutions Foundation$100,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation(SAFE)$50,000
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.

show:

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

area typical 9%I-11 Coalition: $2.2M → 11%DEPLOYUS: $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%DEPLOY-US: $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%Clean Power Institute: $1.0M → 14%Environmental Defense Fund: $645k → 17%Bipartisan Policy Center: $1.0M → 14%Clean Energy Buyers Institute: $750k → 14%Bipartisan Policy Center: $500k → 14%American Flood Coalition: $350k → 14%Advanced Energy Economy Institute: $250k → 14%Clean Power Institute: $250k → 14%Conservative Climate Foundation: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
CA
WV
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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 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
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
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.

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5
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clearpath Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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

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

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
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 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

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 Forum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clean Future Forum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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

    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 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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