Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,636 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($291,136). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $540k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Business Council for Sustainable Energy Foundation does
Mission
To provide educational products and services relating to energy, including, without limitation, natural gas, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide educational products and services relating to energy, including, without limitation, natural gas, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
$146,386 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,386.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $176k to $80k (−55%).
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.
100% of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Kathryn Clay
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 70% · 2021 51% · 2022 61% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states 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.
Against its field
BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION: 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 FOUNDATION?
- BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,636 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($291,136). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $539,636 in grants to BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $291,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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