Vermont · Nonprofit
COMING CLEAN INC
COMING CLEAN INC (Vermont) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,599,397 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($2,440,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Coming Clean Inc does
Mission
Coming cleans mission is to meaningfully contribute to environmental health and justice by radically reducing sources of chemical exposure in peoples lives, especially disproportionately impacted populations; to aggressively advocate for corporate and marketplace changes as a driver for policy solutions that address toxic chemicals as a public health threat; and to position environmental health and justice groups as leaders in building healthy and resilient communities locally and across the country. Coming clean works in close strategic partnership with the environmental justice health alliance for chemical policy reform (ejha).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Accomplishments:network-wide general stragegy meeting coming clean and ejha co-convened a 3-day gathering of coming clean member-organizations and ejha affiliates in los angeles. The event was locally-hosted by physicians for social responsibility- la. Over 100 individuals from 45 organizations participated in the meeting. This was coming cleans first general strategy gathering since the pandemic. Memebers renewed our commitment to center the louisville charter for safer chemicals in our collective work, and move aggressively toward the vision of the charter. Hazardous facilities in spring 2024, after a multi-year collective advocacy effort, the environmental protection agency (epa) finalized the safer communities by chemical accident prevention rule which updated the risk management program (rmp) rule to further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities in industry sectors with high accident rates. Strengthening the rmp rule has been a longstanding priority for the environmental justice health alliance for chemical policy reform (ejha) and coming clean networks as it regulates around 12,000 high-risk facilities that…
$2,064,620 spentof which $400,814 as grants$5,795 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,064,620.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $753k to $1.6M (+109%).
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.
96% of COMING CLEAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Yudith Nieto
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $191k → $2.6M.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 COMING CLEAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
COMING CLEAN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
46% 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 COMING CLEAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 34% · 2019 25% · 2020 24% · 2021 31% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
68% of COMING CLEAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
COMING CLEAN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
COMING CLEAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMING CLEAN 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMING CLEAN INC: 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 COMING CLEAN INC?
- COMING CLEAN INC (Vermont) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,599,397 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($2,440,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMING CLEAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $13,599,397 in grants to COMING CLEAN INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMING CLEAN INC?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMING CLEAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 36 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