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The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc

To dramatically improve the environmental performance and energy efficiency of road, air, and marine transportation systems on a global scale to protect public health and the environment and mitigate climate change.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$244k
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$801kPublic Benefit$220k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $864,122, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,350,132 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,486,010 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $839k
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP INC$244,122
INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT POLICY$220,000
BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY FOUNDATION$150,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$150,000
COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT$75,000
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $95k → 8%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $75k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION & DEVELOPMENT POLICY: $220k → 17%BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $25k → 10%C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP GROUP INC: $244k → 17%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $62k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $7.5M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$3.8M · 50% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONTRIBUTION

South Asia$1.5M · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONTRIBUTION

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.4M · 19% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONTRIBUTION

South America$807k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONTRIBUTION

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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
Breakthrough Energy Action Inc

The world's economic and energy policies are built around technologies that emit greenhouse gases. That must change. We develop and advocate for smart policies that public and private sector leaders can implement to support clean energy…

Environment
2
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Foundation

Breakthrough energy catalyst foundation funds the critical development and demonstration phases of new emissions-reduction technologies to help transform research-stage innovation into real-world impact, producing significant and…

Environment
3
Climate Catalyst Inc

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

Environment
4
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
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
7
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
8
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
9
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asian Pacific Environmental Network. 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

8 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $244,122 · EnvironmentC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group IncSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $75,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENTAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $25,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY: $220,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPM…Breakthrough Energy Foundation: $150,000 · Public BenefitBreakthrough Energy FoundationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $95,000 · EducationMassachuse…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $61,812 · Philanthropy
Environment$494,122Public Benefit$370,000Education$95,000Philanthropy$61,812

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 budgetC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $244,122 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY: $220,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough Energy Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $95,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $61,812 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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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 The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The International Council on Clean Transportation 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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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