Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Clean Energy For America Education Fund
Clean Energy For America Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,701,965 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $962k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $361k
What Clean Energy For America Education Fund does
Mission
Clean Energy for America Action Fund (CE4AEF) is a network of clean energy business leaders, workers, and advocates advancing federal decarbonization policies to protect our environment. CE4AEF works to demonstrate the depth, breadth, and feasibility of transitioning to a clean energy economy and educate decision-makers and the public on the benefits of the clean energy industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education on the benefits of a clean energy economy, including featuring individual worker stories through the Faces of Clean Energy Program, hosting educational webinars, and media campaigns featuring the real-life impacts of clean energy investments.
$596,617 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $596,617.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $157k to $689k (+340%).
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 Energy For America Education 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. 2 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $700k → $562k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Clean Energy For America Education 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 Energy For America Education Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Clean Energy For America Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 44% — 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
52% of Clean Energy For America Education Fund's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.8M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Energy For America Education Fund has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Clean Energy For America Education 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Clean Energy For America Education 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 Energy For America Education Fund?
- Clean Energy For America Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,701,965 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Clean Energy For America Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,701,965 in grants to Clean Energy For America Education Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Clean Energy For America Education Fund?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clean Energy For America Education 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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