Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CLEAN ECONOMY FUND
CLEAN ECONOMY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Clean Economy Fund does
Mission
Cleanecon works to advance economic growth, shared prosperity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change. Policy and regulatory frameworks must change to accelerate building, innovating, and investing in clean technologies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Clean Economy Fund previously operated under the name bipartisan climate trust. A new board of directors was appointed in october 2025 and the name was change to Clean Economy Fund at that time. New programs were launched in 2025 focused on 1) clean tech commercialization, 2) 21st centuray grid reform, and 3) clean data.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The clean tech commercialization program works to modernize key federal programs to accelerate breakthrough technologies from lab to market. 2025 successes included defending existing federal programs and investments from spending cuts and advancing structural reforms to make the dept of energy's innovation program more effective. Cleanecon storytelling about the potential for clean energy innovation to uplift communities included the release of a documentary called "revival: milford, utah's geothermal future".
$4,257,579 spentof which $3,806,503 as grants93% of program spendingCredible modeling shows that an efficient, reliable, net-zero grid requires 25%+ clean firm power: zero-carbon resources (advanced fission, fusion, geothermal, hydropower, long-duration storage). These technologies struggle to scale due to outdated narratives, permitting red tape, financing risk, and electricity markets designed for short-term dispatch rather than the bankable long-term investment that clean firm projects require. In 2025, cleanecon launched the 21st century grid program to address these barriers with a focus on three key areas - permitting reform, clean firm power deployment, and electricity market reform.
$159,997 spent3% of program spendingThe clean data program developed the global clean investment monitor (in partnership with mit and rhodium group) to track global investment in clean energy technologies and the electricity price hub (in partnership with mit and heatmap) to track u.s. Household electricity costs down to the county and zip code level. These initiatives provide businesses, investors, scholars and policy makers with reliable and unbiased data, allowing them to make informed decisions and policy recommendations.
$159,628 spentof which $19,800 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,577,204.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $129k to $2.8M (+2108%).
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 CLEAN ECONOMY FUND’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. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $270k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Clean Economy Project Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CLEAN ECONOMY FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CLEAN ECONOMY FUND’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
CLEAN ECONOMY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
CLEAN ECONOMY FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
CLEAN ECONOMY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLEAN ECONOMY FUND
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Clean Economy Project Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAN ECONOMY FUND: 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 CLEAN ECONOMY FUND?
- CLEAN ECONOMY FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,000 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN ECONOMY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $330,000 in grants to CLEAN ECONOMY FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN ECONOMY FUND?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN ECONOMY FUND 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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