Clean Tomorrow: Grantee Spotlight

Grantee spotlight: Clean Tomorrow

The Giving Green Fund plans to award a grant to Clean Tomorrow for strengthening the federal clean energy innovation pipeline, advancing deployment policies of clean firm power, and developing permitting and siting reforms with bipartisan support. Clean Tomorrow is a U.S.-based climate policy organization.

Clean Tomorrow’s work falls within our philanthropic strategy of unleashing clean energy in the U.S. Please see Giving Green’s strategy report for more information, including recommended sub-strategies, theory of change, and key uncertainties.

Last updated: October 2025

What is Clean Tomorrow?

Founded in 2024, Clean Tomorrow is a U.S.-based climate policy organization that addresses climate change on the local, state, and national levels. Its focus areas include improving the innovation pipeline, supporting clean energy reforms, and building industrial climate policies with bipartisan support. The innovation pipeline refers to the process of moving clean technologies from research and development through demonstration, commercialization, and widespread deployment. By strengthening each stage of this pipeline, Clean Tomorrow helps ensure that emerging climate solutions can scale effectively and reach the market faster.

In addition to research and policy development, Clean Tomorrow operates by building coalitions across the clean energy policy ecosystem. It builds strong relationships with a wide range of organizations—such as center-left, center-right, and traditional environmental organizations—to foster broad, bipartisan support for clean energy solutions.

What are we funding, and how could it help address climate change?

We are providing unrestricted funding to support each of Clean Tomorrow’s three core inputs:

• Original research: Clean Tomorrow will conduct research that informs its policy design and advocacy priorities. Its research will focus on improving the clean energy innovation pipeline and advancing deployment policies that enable the large-scale build-out of clean energy projects required to reduce emissions.
• Coalition-building: Clean Tomorrow will sustain and expand its network of allied organizations, including industry and developers, investors, trade associations, and other partners that focus on non-climate-related topics and are not typically thought of as climate champions.
• Strategic communications: Clean Tomorrow will continue its strategic communication strategy to present and discuss nonpartisan climate policies, all while growing its credibility as unbiased technical experts that can be trusted to focus on good policies over politics.

Clean Tomorrow plans to use the funding provided by Giving Green to pay for personnel and infrastructure, strategic consultants, and engagement and outreach.

In our strategy report on unleashing clean energy in the U.S., we identified supporting RD&D and innovation of clean firm power and addressing local permitting and siting challenges as promising sub-strategies. Both approaches can speed up deployment and de-risk technologies by reducing costs and making project timelines more predictable. We believe that Clean Tomorrow’s proposed work is well-aligned with our strategy. In general, we think Clean Tomorrow can help address climate change by bringing clean energy technologies onto the U.S. grid faster and preventing lock-in of new fossil generation.

Why do we think Clean Tomorrow will use this funding well?

Clean Tomorrow has a short track record as an organization because it was only founded in 2024. Even so, it has been able to share its perspectives in mainstream outlets such as the New York Times, Financial Times, and Politico. In 2025, it also launched its Siting Solutions Project, which summarizes every siting policy framework across the continental U.S. It will also launch Re-Energizing America, its innovation policy education platform, in Fall 2025 with a major report on U.S. Department of Energy funding.

We have confidence that Clean Tomorrow will be effective in advancing climate solutions in divisive times, given that its innovation and clean energy strategies go beyond emission reductions and are focused on building and modernizing our current energy system, which aligns with our unleashing clean energy strategy. Individually, the members of Clean Tomorrow’s team are subject matter experts who have been steeped in clean energy issues for years, working across the policymaking landscape, including the executive and legislative branches and the organizations that influence them. As a result, we have confidence that the team will be able to use this funding well. 

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Giving Green believes that additional climate donations are likely to be most impactful when directed to our top nonprofits. For several reasons, we may choose to recommend grants to other organizations for work that we believe is at least as impactful as grants to our top recommendations. We are highlighting this grant to offer transparency to donors to the Giving Green Fund, as well as to provide a resource for donors who are particularly interested in this impact strategy. This is a nonpartisan analysis (study or research) and is provided for educational purposes.

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