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CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,155 to it, the largest being The San Diego Foundation ($191,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$83k
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$271k
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
4/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,054 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets -33 ($-13039)2018 Revenue 58 ($25k) Expenses 57 ($37k) Net assets -62 ($-24683)2019 Revenue 109 ($47k) Expenses 73 ($47k) Net assets -62 ($-24463)2020 Revenue 102 ($44k) Expenses 99 ($64k) Net assets -111 ($-43902)2021 Revenue 108 ($47k) Expenses 37 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2022 Revenue 462 ($201k) Expenses 314 ($202k) Net assets 97 ($38k)2023 Revenue 101 ($44k) Expenses 29 ($19k) Net assets 160 ($63k)2024 Revenue 54 ($24k) Expenses 10 ($6k) Net assets 159 ($63k)2025 Revenue 190 ($83k) Expenses 159 ($102k) Net assets 109 ($43k)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (159)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,973 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
17
$12k
18
$220
19
$19k
20
$23k
21
$1k
22
$25k
23
$17k
24
$20k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $180k → $21k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)82% 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 CLEANTECH EDUCATION 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

CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

70%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 40% · 2021 100%growing more concentrated.

“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

82% of CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

OH
CA
NC

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

17
18
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 CLEANTECH EDUCATION 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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

42%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEANTECH EDUCATION 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.

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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 CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,155 to it, the largest being The San Diego Foundation ($191,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $271,155 in grants to CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
The San Diego Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $191,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEANTECH EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), 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