Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND
CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,693,121 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($11,193,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Climate Equity Action Fund does
Mission
The Climate Equity Action Fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. Building on over a decade of trust with leading independent advocacy organizations in each state, we deploy strategic grants and technical assistance to build a broad and diverse base of support that achieves results. The equity action fund also selectively helps elect clean energy champions to public office.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grant programs: grantmaking, policy research, strategic communications, and technical assistance that increase the impact, efficacy and scale of community-led non-partisan civic participation and policy advocacy.technical assistance with the development and deployment of voter modeling and other specialized resources.
$9,720,707 spentof which $9,440,000 as grants99% of program spendingPolicy accelerator: donor advising and grantmaking that propels multi-racial voter support to elect climate champions and secure policy wins for climate action and clean energy by increasing the vote share, political power and policy responsiveness to black, indigenous, latinx, aapi, immigrant, and low-wealth multiracial communities.
$103,242 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,823,949.
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 2023 to 2024, from $223k to $4.3M (+1834%).
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 CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Michelle Depass
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION 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
CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND.
“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
88% of CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION 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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION 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 CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND?
- CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,693,121 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($11,193,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $12,693,121 in grants to CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION FUND?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,193,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing