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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,758,144
Total expenses
$1,817,734
Contributions and grants received
$1,041,677
Grants paid
$130,000
Program service revenue
$698,385
Investment income
$18,082
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,741,097
Total liabilities, end of year
$775,195
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,965,902
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,456,585
Management and general expenses
$321,524
Fundraising expenses
$39,625
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,456,585

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,041,677

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting Income

    total $698,385 · related or exempt $698,385

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $18,082 · excluded $18,082

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $130,000 · program services $130,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $311,994 · program services $179,076 · management and general $112,954 · fundraising $19,964

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $338,263 · program services $296,143 · management and general $39,895 · fundraising $2,225

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $97,140 · program services $71,012 · management and general $22,834 · fundraising $3,294

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $278,625 · program services $203,428 · management and general $65,493 · fundraising $9,704

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $57,535 · program services $41,903 · management and general $13,524 · fundraising $2,108

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $492,182 · program services $466,918 · management and general $24,656 · fundraising $608

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $26,991 · program services $19,042 · management and general $7,547 · fundraising $402

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $18,059 · program services $13,291 · management and general $4,245 · fundraising $523

  • 17 · Travel

    total $28,988 · program services $22,123 · management and general $6,817 · fundraising $48

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $19,934 · program services $8,469 · management and general $11,189 · fundraising $276

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $5,042 · program services $4,216 · management and general $674 · fundraising $152

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,862 · management and general $6,672 · fundraising $190

  • 24a · Other expenses: Dues and subscriptions

    total $6,119 · program services $964 · management and general $5,024 · fundraising $131

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $34,117 · end of year $164,792

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,149,385 · end of year $1,937,868

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $31,015

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $52,982 · end of year $84,477

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $50,639 · end of year $48,924

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $64,192

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $42,132

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $29,453 · end of year $22,060

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $267,793 · end of year $451,961

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $291,852 · end of year $314,424

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $287,025 · end of year $460,771

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,214,606 · end of year $1,322,949

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $810,886 · end of year $642,953

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

  • Finance - This program includes projects that identify new sources of capital, align the interests of the private and public sectors, and develop government and private sector interventions to overcome existing financing gaps to get zero carbon technology investment to scale.

    Expenses $277,500 · Revenue $232,795

  • Policy - This program includes projects to educate the public and policy experts to move beyond pricing measures such as cap and trade to develop long term, complementary climate stabilization policies that encourage massive technology innovation and deployment to drive the development of new clean energy technologies and markets.

    Expenses $846,466 · Revenue $232,795

  • Technology - This programs includes projects to achieve climate stabilization by exploring how to incorporate technology innovation into new strategies, whose aim is to advance clean energy technologies and to stabilize greenhouse emissions.

    Expenses $332,619 · Revenue $232,795

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Warren Leon

    CESA Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $225,712
    From this org
    $193,721
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,991
    Hours/week
    36

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,421
    Bonus
    $9,300
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $22,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,491
    Filer's total
    $225,712

  • Anthony Vargo

    Treasurer CFO

    Total calculated
    $220,798
    From this org
    $177,233
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,565
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,933
    Bonus
    $8,300
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $22,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,065
    Filer's total
    $220,798

  • Seth Mullendore

    President

    Total calculated
    $219,602
    From this org
    $176,783
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,819
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,383
    Bonus
    $8,400
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $16,875
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,944
    Filer's total
    $219,602

  • Todd Olinsky-Paul

    Senior Project Director

    Total calculated
    $178,192
    From this org
    $118,028
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $60,164
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,328
    Bonus
    $5,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $22,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,664
    Filer's total
    $178,192

  • Maria Blais Costello

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $137,945
    From this org
    $98,711
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,234
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brian Keane

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Logan Atkinson-Burke

    Co Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shiva Prakash

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Tovar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Chen left during FY24

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

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Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
24 January 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202520249349300222

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