Texas · Nonprofit
Clear Skies Texas
Clear Skies Texas (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being CATENA FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Energy Foundationshared funders
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundationportfolio match
- Better Business Bureauportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $60k → $125k.
From the IRS filings of Clear Skies Texas’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
Clear Skies Texas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 Clear Skies Texas.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 60% — 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
Clear Skies Texas draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Better Business Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environmental Defense Fund Incorporatedshared fundersNY · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- The Elliott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Partnership Project Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas for Allportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Burdine Johnson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apache Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Powerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Clear Skies Texas
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Clear Skies Texas: 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.
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 Clear Skies Texas?
- Clear Skies Texas (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being CATENA FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Clear Skies Texas have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $185,000 in grants to Clear Skies Texas.
- Who is the largest funder of Clear Skies Texas?
- CATENA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clear Skies Texas find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 3funders 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