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PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC

PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,899 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($56,399). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$226k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$86k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Project Clean Air Inc does

Mission

Support the work of the central california clean cities coalition and the san joaquin valley clean cities coalition.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support the work of the central california clean cities coalition and the sjv clean cities coalitions. Annual meeeting in each reagion. More than 200 individuals receive the electronic daily newsletter.

    $278,633 spent$225,717 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $278,633.

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 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($157k) Net assets 100 ($253k)2018 Revenue 119 ($209k) Expenses 111 ($173k) Net assets 114 ($289k)2019 Revenue 97 ($170k) Expenses 120 ($189k) Net assets 107 ($270k)2020 Revenue 614 ($1.1M) Expenses 795 ($1.2M) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 842 ($1.5M) Expenses 955 ($1.5M) Net assets 16 ($40k)2022 Revenue 736 ($1.3M) Expenses 774 ($1.2M) Net assets 31 ($79k)2023 Revenue 818 ($1.4M) Expenses 894 ($1.4M) Net assets 53 ($135k)2024 Revenue 199 ($349k) Expenses 174 ($273k) Net assets 58 ($146k)2025 Revenue 129 ($226k) Expenses 182 ($285k) Net assets 34 ($86k)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (182)Net assets (34)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 2019 to 2020, from $280k to $0 (−100%).

$254k
$289k
$280k
$0
$40k
$79k
$210k
$147k
$88k
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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: 2018 88% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 78% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 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.

$18k
’17
$36k
’18
−$19k
’19
−$171k
’20
−$22k
’21
$76k
’22
$32k
’23
$76k
’24
−$60k
’25
3.1
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.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed3543556
Joined··+2+1+4+0+1
No longer listed··32200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $56k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC’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

PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

34% 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 PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

68% of PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$1.1M

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 PROJECT CLEAN AIR 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC?
PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,899 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($56,399). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $84,899 in grants to PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC?
THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT CLEAN AIR INC 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.

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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 3 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