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Coming Clean Inc

Brattleboro, VT · EIN 04-3429794. Reported 20 grants totalling $327,677 to 20 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$13,527median reported grant
$327,677granted, 2024
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Coming Clean Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C052) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $13,527. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $18,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $50,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Community Networking Resources IncAlbuquerque, NM$50,500112024
Learning Disabilities Association of AmericaAllison Park, PA$29,000112024
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs IncCalabasas, CA$25,000112024
Pueblo Organizado En Defensa De La Tierra Y Sus RecursosAustin, TX$20,500112024
Agri-Cultura NetworkAlbuquerque, NM$18,000112024
Carl Braden Memorial Center IncLouisville, KY$18,000112024
Harambee House IncSavannah, GA$18,000112024
Organizacion En California De Lideres Campesinas IncOxnard, CA$18,000112024
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy ServicesHouston, TX$18,000112024
Alaska Community Action on ToxicsAnchorage, AK$14,554112024
West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund IncCharleston, WV$12,500112024
MultiplierSan Francisco, CA$12,377112024
Just Transition AllianceSan Diego, CA$11,748112024
Center for Political EcologySanta Cruz, CA$10,000112024
Comunidades Aliadas TomandoArvin, CA$10,000112024
Healthy Schools Network IncWashington, DC$10,000112024
Farmworker Association of Florida IncApopka, FL$9,748112024
Northwest Center for Alternatives to PesticidesEugene, OR$7,500112024
Until Justice Data Partners IncLouisville, KY$7,250112024
Pesticide Action Network North America Regional CenterBerkeley, CA$7,000112024

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 20 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Environment
8 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Employment
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Where its money goes

29% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$94K
New Mexico
$68K
Texas
$38K
Pennsylvania
$29K
Kentucky
$25K
Georgia
$18K
Alaska
$15K
West Virginia
$12K

Down to the city

Albuquerque, NM
$68K
Allison Park, PA
$29K
Louisville, KY
$25K
Calabasas, CA
$25K
Austin, TX
$20K
Savannah, GA
$18K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs11 shared recipientsAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsWindward Fund8 shared recipientsTides Foundation8 shared recipientsImpactassetsinc8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,527 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Coming Clean Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 28 Vernon Street 434, Brattleboro, VT, 05301.

EIN 04-3429794 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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