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Clean Future Forum Inc

Clean Future Forum Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,469,620 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($36,000,000). 9 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
$35M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$97M
Net assets
$18M
9/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Clean Future Forum Inc does

Mission

To research, develop, and educate the public and policymakers about the economic growth and emissions reduction benefits of clean energy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research and Education: The Research and Education programs included quantitative and qualitative research on clean energy and conservation issues. The types of studies included: public opinion surveys, in-person and online focus groups, and analysis of the public social media conversation related to clean energy and conservation issues. This work included travel and operating expenses related to fielding studies. Grants were also provided to non-profit partners to support research and public education efforts in line with the Organization's mission.

    $20,151,273 spentof which $18,765,000 as grants
    95% of program spending
  2. Policy: The Policy program included expenses related to research and analysis of various clean energy, conservation, and advanced energy infrastructure public policies. Grants were also provided to non-profit partners to support technical and economic modeling, and to educate the public and policy makers on clean energy and conservation policy ideas.

    $1,159,016 spent
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,310,289.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($8.4M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2021 Revenue 41 ($9.6M) Expenses 189 ($16M) Net assets 57 ($8.5M)2022 Revenue 108 ($25M) Expenses 233 ($20M) Net assets 94 ($14M)2023 Revenue 44 ($10M) Expenses 174 ($15M) Net assets 64 ($9.5M)2024 Revenue 48 ($11M) Expenses 191 ($16M) Net assets 30 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 152 ($35M) Expenses 262 ($22M) Net assets 120 ($18M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (152)Expenses (262)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

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 $6.6M to $20M (+204%).

$19M
$9.0M
$14M
$12M
$6.6M
$20M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Clean Future Forum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$15M
’20
−$6.4M
’21
$5.5M
’22
−$4.5M
’23
−$5.0M
’24
$13M
’25
7.0
months of
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

Mark Ventola

Director, Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
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Joined·+0+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16M → $18M.

8 of 14 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 Future Forum Inc’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 Future Forum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 Future Forum Inc.

37%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 42% · 2023 45% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of Clean Future Forum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

52% of Clean Future Forum Inc'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 $47M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.

IL
NY
CA
AR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Clean Future Forum Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · above the median
Months of reserve7.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Clean Future Forum Inc

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Consensus Media LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Clean Future Forum Inc?
Clean Future Forum Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,469,620 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($36,000,000). 9 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 Future Forum Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $97,469,620 in grants to Clean Future Forum Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Clean Future Forum Inc?
WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Clean Future Forum Inc 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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