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Coalition for Clean Air

Coalition for Clean Air (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,919,445 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($575,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$1.1M
25/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Coalition for Clean Air does

Mission

To protect public health, improve air quality and prevent climate change.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Coalition for Clean Air helped promote and improve air quality through education and advocacy efforts including (1) the reduction of air pollution from port and freight transportation activities (2) support for electric vehicles and other alternative fuel technologies and (3) climate change policies and programs that benefit California's most heavily-polluted communities. Coalition for Clean Air hosted California Clean Air Day, expanded its network of low-cost air quality monitors and worked with schools, community organizations, and community members on air quality and climate protection education.

    $1,479,082 spentof which $116,900 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,479,082.

02The 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 ($892k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 148 ($1.3M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 107 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 96 ($852k) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 73 ($893k)2020 Revenue 126 ($1.1M) Expenses 128 ($1.3M) Net assets 55 ($673k)2021 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 110 ($1.2M) Net assets 69 ($842k)2022 Revenue 164 ($1.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.2M) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 176 ($1.6M) Expenses 134 ($1.4M) Net assets 115 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 235 ($2.1M) Expenses 199 ($2.1M) Net assets 116 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 241 ($2.1M) Expenses 233 ($2.5M) Net assets 91 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (241)Expenses (233)Net assets (91)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+32%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 7% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of Coalition for Clean Air’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$159k
’17
$80k
’18
−$413k
’19
−$220k
’20
$29k
’21
$264k
’22
$169k
’23
$6k
’24
−$304k
’25
5.2
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.

Chief executive

Joseph K Lyou

President & CEO

Board chair

Sherry Jackman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed191617181818161817
Joined·+3+3+2+4+2+4+3+1
No longer listed·62142612
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $686k → $312k.

14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Coalition for Clean Air’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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

Coalition for Clean Air has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

64% 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 Coalition for Clean Air.

20%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 38% · 2019 41% · 2020 58% · 2021 45% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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

32% of Coalition for Clean Air's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of Coalition for Clean Air's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
PA
CA
DE
AZ
DC
OK
GA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

Coalition for Clean Air is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Coalition for Clean Air receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.

Federal$500k
grants $500kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$500k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Coalition for Clean Air

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 26%Fundraising 13%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 Coalition for Clean Air: 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 Coalition for Clean Air?
Coalition for Clean Air (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,919,445 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($575,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Coalition for Clean Air have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,919,445 in grants to Coalition for Clean Air, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Coalition for Clean Air?
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Coalition for Clean Air 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 40 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