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.
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· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Energy Action Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- The Partnership Project Incshared funders
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.
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
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.
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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 101 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Energy Action Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Partnership Project Incshared fundersDC · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservative Energy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Climate Action Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Clean Power Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Future Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION
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, 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.
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 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 5funders 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