Clean Economy Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334863976
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2029141044
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,254,434
- Expenses
- $7,447,354
- Assets
- $7,948,707
- Liabilities
- $141,627
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALIYA HAQ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADRIA WILSON (DIRECTOR, INNOVATION INITIATIVE): $177,355 total reported compensation
- FARAH BENHAMED (DIRECTOR, INNOVATION INITIATIVE): $173,141 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 proserity, and a safe climate through groundbreaking policy change. Policy and regulatory frameworks must change to accelerate buiding, 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 These technologies struggle to scale due to outdated narratives, permitting red tape, financing risks, and electricity markets designed for short-term dispatch rather than the bankable long-term investment that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 feform.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $96.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 12th 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: 51.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $177K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.