About Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund
The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund provides strategic grants, capacity building, donor advising, and technical assistance to scale a proven model for securing climate action that advances economic, racial, and gender equity through community-supported solutions.
Focus Areas
Clean Energy TransitionEnvironmental JusticeBuilding DecarbonizationClimate Resilience, Recovery, and ResponseFederal Implementation Projects and CampaignsFossil Fuel Transition, Pipelines, and MiningJust Transition for WorkersPublic Service Commissions & Utility AccountabilityTransportation & Transit Access and Affordability
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizationscharitable organizations across sectors
About Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund
Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund centers its grantmaking on equitable climate action, and its recent support shows that emphasis in practice: large general operating grants to state and local organizations advancing clean energy transition, environmental justice, building decarbonization, and climate resilience. The funder pairs that strategy with capacity building, technical assistance, donor advising, and policy support, making it as much an infrastructure funder as a traditional grantmaker. In the recent grants list, Power Interfaith in Philadelphia received $680,000 for general operating support, while Onepa Activist United in Philadelphia received $660,000 for the same purpose. Other sizable awards went to Virginia Organizing in Charlottesville, Casa Inc in Hyattsville, and New Virginia Majority Education Fund in Alexandria, all under a general operating support model. The pattern fits the fund’s stated approach: supporting community-based organizations and state coalitions to build power for equitable climate action, strategic communications, and civic engagement. The foundation’s program language also points to a multi-part strategy that includes state-level policy change, communications work, federal implementation campaigns, and frontline organizing. Its grants are structured to strengthen organizations’ ability to lead advocacy and related campaigns across a broad equity agenda that includes economic, racial, and gender equity.
What Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund Funds
The fund’s clearest focus is equitable climate policy. It backs policy research, data analysis, and facilitation through its Policy Accelerator, which is designed to help grantee partners move state-level policy change. It also funds communications capacity. The Communications Accelerator supports narrative strategy and strategic communications for climate and clean energy messages, pairing that work with capacity-building for partner organizations. A third strand is implementation and coalition work. The Catalytic State Implementation Fund supports statewide coalitions for field mobilization and communications campaigns tied to federal climate and infrastructure funding, with an explicit aim of benefiting low-wealth and working-class communities of color. The recent grants list reflects these priorities through general operating support to organizations such as GreenLatinos in Boulder, Actionn in Las Vegas, and Little Village Environmental Justice Organization in Chicago.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$17.3M
Total Assets
$52.6M
Total Revenue
$29.5M
Total Expenses
$25.7M
Geographic Reach
National19 states funded
About 3% of grants go to recipients in AZ.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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