Clean Fuels Development Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820428666
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Potomac, MD, USA
Phone
3017182995
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,000
Expenses
$61,659
Assets
$1,043
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROGER BURKEN (PRESIDENT)
  • DOUG DURANTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • ROGER BURKEN (PRESIDENT)
  • TODD SNELLER (CHAIRMAN)
  • DOUG DURANTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The clean fuels development coalition was formed in 1988 in operation to bring together industry, government, and all interested parties to promote and support the use of clean burning alternative transportation fuels like renewable ethanol.

What it reported doing in 2025

The clean fuels development coalition produces a wide range of publications from fact books to position papers to market analysis. The coalition does not have full-time employees, but instead utilized consultants with expertise in these areas. The coalition is funded by membership dues, contribution from private companies. Also, the coalition provides staff support to the clean fuels foundation for its ethanol across america program and other outreach and education efforts. The primary areas of activity focused on the support of the foundation's flexfuel vehicle awareness program by providing both human and material resources to that education effort.(continued at schedule o)cfdc engaged in a new and very specific project to identify toxic substances in gasoline and their related health impacts. Cfdc served as one of the organizers of the urban air initiative which is a program specifically aimed at these issues relating to air toxics.ongoing promotion of ethanol benefits and impacts. The coalition regularly participates in events that provide a forum for education and outreach throughout the u.s.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.