Clean Economy Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922881345
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2029141044
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,977,141
- Expenses
- $4,830,609
- Assets
- $2,845,747
- Liabilities
- $570,315
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALIYA HAQ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- FARAH BENHAMED (DIRECTOR, INNOVATION INITIATIVE): $179,080 total reported compensation
- ADRIA WILSON (DIRECTOR, INNOVATION INITIATIVE): $171,416 total reported compensation
- ALIYA HAQ (PRESIDENT): $154,088 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cleanecon works to advance economic growth, shared prosperity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change. Policy and regulatory frameworks must change to accelerate building, innovating, and investing in clean technologies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Credible modeling shows that an efficient, reliable, net-zero grid requires 25%+ clean firm power: zero-carbon resources (advanced fission, fusion, geothermal, hydropower, long-duration storage). These technologies struggle to scale due to outdated narratives, permitting red tape, financing risk, and electricity markets designed for short-term dispatch rather than the bankable long-term investment that clean firm projects require. In 2025, cleanecon launched the 21st century grid program to address these barriers with a focus on three key areas - permitting reform, clean firm power deployment, and electricity market reform.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $76.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 183.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 140.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 137.2% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $179K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.