Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,590 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($700,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $705k
What Business Council for Sustainable Energy does
Mission
The council advocates energy and environmental policies that promote markets for clean, efficient and sustainable energy products and services. The council works to increase the awareness of environmental benefits and increase the implementation of renewable energy, natural gas and energy efficient technologies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Business Council for Sustainable Energy strives to be the world's premier organization promoting clean energy technolgies - energy efficiency, renewable energy and natural gas. To achieve the goals of sustainable development, such as a cleaner environment, a prosperous economy and greater security, the council: - leads initiatives in policy advocacy and analysis and clean energy technology promotion; - provides vision through its broad-based clean energy industry coalition and global strategic alliance with its sister organizations in europe, the united kingdom and australia; - initiates and participates in strategic alliances and collaborative partnerships with industry, government, environmental groups and other stakeholders to form an effective global network to expand clean energy markets; - executes its mission through a team of recognized clean energy industry professionals, member companies, and organizations.
$2,305,992 spentof which $5,000 as grants$1,800,939 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,305,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $734k to $1.0M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7% · 2023 13% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Allison Hull
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $710k → $80k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $45k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Business Council for Sustainable Energy Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY raised.
From the IRS filings of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 46% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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.
Against its field
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Clean Energy Business Network LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY?
- BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,590 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($700,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,343,590 in grants to BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing