Washington · Nonprofit
Breakthrough Energy Action Inc
Breakthrough Energy Action Inc (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $49,771,031 to it, the largest being Open Philanthropy Action Fund ($49,771,031). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Breakthrough Energy Action Inc's revenue fell 92% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Accountable Justice Action Fundshared funders
- E4thefuture Incportfolio match
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of Breakthrough Energy Action Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48M → $592k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Breakthrough Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Breakthrough Energy Action Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Breakthrough Energy Action Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Breakthrough Energy Action Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Accountable Justice Action Fundshared fundersNY · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shugar Magic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Warming Mitigation Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climateworks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacyshared fundersCA · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Breakthrough Energy Action Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Breakthrough Energy Foundation · exempt
- Alzheimers Disease Data Initiative Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Breakthrough Energy Action Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Breakthrough Energy Action Inc?
- Breakthrough Energy Action Inc (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $49,771,031 to it, the largest being Open Philanthropy Action Fund ($49,771,031). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Breakthrough Energy Action Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $49,771,031 in grants to Breakthrough Energy Action Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breakthrough Energy Action Inc?
- Open Philanthropy Action Fund is the largest funder on record, with $49,771,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breakthrough Energy Action Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing