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Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund

The equity fund believes that durable progress on climate action requires a broad, diverse, and powerful base of popular support that advances economic, gender and racial equity.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$680k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $7.5M
  • $250k+25 grants · $9.5M
$150,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER INTERFAITH$680,000
ONEPA ACTIVIST UNITED$660,000
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING$646,250
CASA INC$590,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$550,000
NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND$480,000
GREENLATINOS$390,000
MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC$385,000
ACTIONN$350,000
FAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC$350,000
STATE POWER FUND$330,000
ISAIAH$330,000
MN350$326,000
PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC$320,000
TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND$310,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $290k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $385k → 20%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $45k → 9%STATE POWER FUND: $330k → 19%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $110k → 11%ACTIONN: $350k → 13%INSTITUTO LAB LLC: $230k → 11%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

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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 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.

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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
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Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
3
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
4
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
5
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
6
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
8
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
9
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
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California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Semilla Project and the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%25%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%14%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,472

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.

03the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 93 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
14/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GreenLatinos — $390,000 · EnvironmentGreenLatinosMN350 — $326,000 · EnvironmentMN350VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT — $300,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POW…GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND — $300,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CONSERVATION VO…PHILLY THRIVE — $286,000 · EnvironmentPHILLY THRIVEGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc — $275,000 · EnvironmentGeorgia Interfaith Powe…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $270,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION …APPALACHIAN VOICES — $265,500 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICESPHYSICIANS SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY ENERGY INC — $215,000 · EnvironmentPHYSICIANS SCIENTISTS A…CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $210,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COALFIELD JU…Sol Nation Inc — $180,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $120,000 · Environment+6 more — $251,000 · Environment+6 moreONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $660,000 · Civil RightsONE PENNSYLVANIA AC…PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $320,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TA…COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $226,500 · Civil RightsCOPAL-EDUCATION FUN…ARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $210,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA COALITION F…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERE…Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $200,000 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant C…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $190,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGE…PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA — $140,500 · Civil RightsBLACK GIRLS VOTE 4 HER INC — $110,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA — $100,000 · Civil Rights+10 more — $595,000 · Civil Rights+10 moreCASA INC — $590,000 · OtherCASA INCILLUMINATIVE INC — $280,000 · OtherILLUMINATIVE INCOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside — $243,000 · OtherINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT — $220,000 · OtherREFRAME — $200,000 · OtherPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $200,000 · OtherNATIVE VOTERS ALLIANCE NEVADA — $180,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $310,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUNDVOCES UNIDAS DE LAS MONTANAS — $190,000 · OtherISAIAH — $330,000 · OtherISAIAHFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC — $350,000 · OtherFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMEN…Little Village Environmental Justice Org — $275,000 · OtherLittle Village Environmental …ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $200,000 · Other+11 more — $1,010,500 · Other+11 moreMake The Road States Inc — $385,000 · Human ServicesMake The Roa…ACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA — $350,000 · Human ServicesACTING IN CO…STATE POWER FUND — $330,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER …ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND — $290,000 · Human ServicesACTIVATE 48 …Instituto Lab — $230,000 · Human ServicesInstituto La…TIDES CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $110,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITE…+1 more — $45,000 · Human ServicesPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $680,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERF…VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $646,250 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORG…Pittsburgh United — $175,000 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh U…ILLINOIS PEOPLES ACTION — $120,500 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS PEO…PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA…PROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $85,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $60,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $480,000 · EducationVIRGINIA …THE SEMILLA PROJECT — $200,000 · EducationTHE SEMIL…WE ARE DOWN HOME — $185,000 · EducationWE ARE DO…NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $115,000 · EducationNORTH CAR…FLORIDA WATCH INC — $100,000 · EducationFLORIDA W…TO NIZHONI ANI — $80,000 · EducationTO NIZHON…BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $65,000 · EducationPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC — $52,000 · Education+3 more — $104,000 · Education+3 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $550,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION — $220,000 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT — $118,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$3,538,500Civil Rights$2,952,000Other$4,578,500Human Services$1,890,000Community Improvement$1,866,750Education$1,381,000Philanthropy$1,138,000

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 budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $660,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $646,250 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCASA INC — $590,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $550,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $480,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGreenLatinos — $390,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $385,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC — $350,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA — $350,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND — $330,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetISAIAH — $330,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMN350 — $326,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $320,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $310,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT — $300,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND — $290,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetILLUMINATIVE INC — $280,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $275,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc — $275,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $270,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $265,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside — $243,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetInstituto Lab — $230,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $226,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION — $220,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetINTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF METROPOLIT — $220,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPHYSICIANS SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY ENERGY INC — $215,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $210,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $210,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT — $200,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVOCES UNIDAS DE LAS MONTANAS — $190,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $190,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $185,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSol Nation Inc — $180,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetNATIVE VOTERS ALLIANCE NEVADA — $180,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPittsburgh United — $175,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMIAMI CLIMATE ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA — $140,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetILLINOIS PEOPLES ACTION — $120,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY EDUCATION INSTITUTE — $120,500 over 1y, 13% 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.

New Venture FundUnited States Energy …Windward FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncWay to RiseRockefeller Philanthr…Hopewell FundRockefeller Family Fu…The Energy FoundationProteus Fund Inc
New Venture FundDC101.2× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Way to Rise · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Hopewell Fund · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The Energy Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc

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 Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund 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
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Alianza Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
15report 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, FY20–24

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.

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How do I get to Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund?

Find your warmest path to Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund 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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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