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Potential Energy Coalition Inc

Potential Energy Coalition, Inc.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$542k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$4.8M
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,869,131, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,006,183 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $137,052 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $542k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$113,334
Median grant
6
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
California Environmental Voters Education Fund$542,400
Clean Jobs for PA$460,000
California Environmental Voters Education F$324,925
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania$135,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network$113,334
The Years Project Inc$91,250
Tides Center$82,222
Fossil Free Media Inc$60,000
Action for the Climate Emergency$60,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Fossil Free Media Inc: $60k → 11%Action for the Climate Emergency: $60k → 16%Clean Jobs for PA: $460k → 12%Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $135k → 22%California Environmental Voters Education Fund: $542k → 10%The Years Project Inc: $91k → 7%Potential Energy Action Network Inc: $3.7M → 17%Clean Jobs for Michigan: $150k → 13%Greenlight America: $60k → 14%Chesapeake Climate Action Network: $113k → 8%Clean Jobs for PA: $113k → 12%California Environmental Voters Education F: $325k → 10%Potential Energy Action Network Inc: $715k → 17%Potential Energy Action Network Inc: $35k → 17%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.
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 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
Potential Energy Coalition Inc

Potential Energy Coalition, Inc. (the "Organization") was founded in 2018 to educate the public and help create broad public demand for clean energy and climate solutions through evidence-based communications. The Organization uses…

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Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
Clean Economy Project Inc

Cleanecon works to advance economic growth, shared proserity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change. policy and regulatory frameworks must change to accelerate buiding, innovating, and investing in clean technologies.

Environment
6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Greenlight Action

Greenlight action mobilizes grassroots power to get more clean energy projects built more quickly across the united states.

Environment
8
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc

To advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.

Environment
9
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
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
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
12
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Inc

To educate workers and the public about policies that will build a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jobs for Michigan. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
1/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Potential Energy Action Network Inc: $4,427,000 · EnvironmentPotential Energy Action Network IncCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $867,325 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND+4 more: $324,584 · Environment+4 moreClean Jobs for PA: $573,255 · OtherClean Jobs for …Jobs for Michigan: $150,000 · OtherJobs for Michig…Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $135,000 · OtherConservation Vo…FOSSIL FREE MEDIA INC: $60,000 · OtherFOSSIL FREE MED…TIDES CENTER: $82,222 · Human Services
Environment$5,618,909Other$918,255Human Services$82,222

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPotential Energy Action Network Inc: $4,427,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $867,325 over 1y, 26% of budgetJobs for Michigan: $150,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetConservation Voters of Pennsylvania: $135,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $113,334 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGREENLIGHT AMERICA: $60,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Potential Energy Coalition Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potential Energy Coalition Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY22–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Potential Energy Coalition Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Potential Energy Coalition 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 11 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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