Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION
CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,317,450 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC ($6,317,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Center for Green Market Activation does
Mission
To promote the uptake of low-carbon and zero-carbon fuels and materials in high-emitting and hard-to decarbonize sectors, as a means of combatting climate change and its adverse impacts on the environment and public health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Aviation - the organization serves as the secretariat for the sustainable aviation buyers alliance (saba), a partnership with rmi and edf that accelerates the path to net zero air transport by driving investment into high quality saf, catalyzing new saf production and technological innovation, and supporting member engagement in policymaking.
$1,391,204 spentof which $120,000 as grants$697,992 earned by the program25% of program spendingConcrete and cement - the organization partners with rmi on this initiative to facilitate capital deployment towards low-carbon cement and concrete, enabling dramatic reductions to embodied emissions in the built environment. This initiative will operate in two phases: first leading a diverse working group to design a credible measurement and book and claim system and subsequently establishing and coordinating a collective procurement process for both physical and attribute offtake.
$1,267,930 spentof which $364,500 as grants$50,000 earned by the program23% of program spendingHeavy duty trucking - the organization coordinates and manages gma trucking, a buyers alliance for zero emissions trucking service attributes with the goal of accelerating the decarbonization of heavy-duty trucking. Gma trucking, with support from its strategic partner, the smart freight centre, is supporting first-of-their-kind, scalable partnerships focused on getting battery electric vehicle (bev) and fuel cell electric vehicle (fcev) class 8 trucks on the road.
$812,306 spentof which $60,000 as grants$115,000 earned by the program15% of program spendingMaritime - launched in 2023, zemba aims to accelerate commercial deployment of zeroemission shipping services, enable economies of scale, and help cargo owners and freight forwarders maximize emission reduction potential beyond what any freight transport buyer could accomplish alone. Zemba is managed by the aspen institute's energy & environment program (eep). The organization provides technical and procurement support in alignmentwith zemba's short and long-term goals as set by aspen eep.
$432,500 spent$774,996 earned by the program8% of program spendingStandards and guidance - convened by c2es, the gold standard, and gma, the advanced and indirect mitigation (aim) platform is a cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to unlock vast new sums of private climate finance by bringing civil society and the private sector together to remove roadblocks to value chain mitigation and ignite sectoral transition.
$789,693 spent$350,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingChemicals - the program focuses on accelerating deep decarbonization of the chemicals sector, while supporting efforts to address chemicals' non-climate impacts. The program will do so by building market-based tools to remove financial and structural barriers to decarbonization and will facilitate demand aggregation and collective procurement for low-emission chemical products.
$885,373 spentof which $400,000 as grants16% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,579,006.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6.0M to $8.5M (+42%).
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.
72% of CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Kim Carnahan
CEO, board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION’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
100% of CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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
CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION
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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION: 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 CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION?
- CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,317,450 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC ($6,317,450). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,317,450 in grants to CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION?
- CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,317,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR GREEN MARKET ACTIVATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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