· Public charity
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition
To increase the use of cleaner american fuels, vehicles and energy-saving transportation technologies; to improve air quality and health; to curb dependence on imported petroleum and support tennessee's economy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $1,289,420 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,325,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,695 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $781k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $483k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW JERSEY CLEAN CITIES COALITION | $83,760 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $72,000 |
| DRIVE CLEAN INDIANA | $70,580 |
| ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA GOVERNMENTS | $54,230 |
| WISCONSIN CLEAN CITIES | $52,200 |
| PALMETTO CLEAN FUELS COALITION | $50,000 |
| ALABAMA CLEAN FUELS COALITION | $50,000 |
| HAWKINS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $47,980 |
| MINNESOTA CLEAN CITIES COALITION (MC3) | $46,650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,080 |
| SOUTHEAST FLORIDA CLEAN CITIES | $40,000 |
| EAST BAY CLEAN CITIES COALITION | $37,283 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON REGION CLEAN CITIES COALITION | $36,520 |
| DRIVE ELECTRIC ARIZONA | $33,320 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCLEAN FUELS OHIO5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue -85% · 30% of their budget
- WMWASTE MANAGEMENT3× · 2018–2020 · $405k
- HCHAWKINS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION3× · 2023–2025 · $189k
Funded once
- COCITY OF MEMPHISone grant, 2022 · $205k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $144k
- DDDERBY DISTRIBUTION INCone grant, 2024 · $133k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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To accelerate the transition to clean transportation in michigan. we advocate for the suite of alternative fuels including biofuels, hydrogen, propane, natural gas, and electric vehicles.
?Northern Colorado Clean Cities NCCC is a 501c3 organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities Program. As part of the DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program Clean Cities advances the nation's economic environmental and…
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Increase the use of alternative fuel vehicles
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean Fuels Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Land of Sky Regional Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition 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.
- Live Green Connecticut Inc — 28% of income from government
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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