Clean and Prosperous America PAC
2025 Impact
In a year full of political challenges, Clean & Prosperous America (CaPA) supported organizations that mobilized voters to win critical elections and stand up for their communities. CaPA grantees nation-wide organized communities to deliver big wins with high voter turnout including: supreme court races in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the governor’s race in Virginia, and the utility-regulating Public Service Commission in Georgia. These organizations listened and learned from their communities, organized neighbors to support each other despite the challenging environment, and laid the groundwork for strong voter engagement and advocacy going into the 2026 midterms. CaPA also supported our growing cohort of over 600 civic engagement organizations by connecting them with opportunities, resources, and fellow organizers. We hosted quarterly “CaPA Cohort Calls” where organizations were invited to learn from subject matter experts, share resources and ideas, and identify collaboration opportunities. We also expanded our Toolkit of resources for community organizing, adding new topics and tools throughout the year based on requests from the CaPA Cohort.
In 2025, CaPA expanded and enhanced the CaPA Connector, our interactive directory that profiles 648 political and civic engagement organizations doing voter outreach and advocating for climate, social, racial and economic justice. We created the CaPA Connector as a publically available resource for donors to find organizations that are highly effective but often under the radar. Donors can filter organizations by location, size, demographics, activities, and more to identify groups that align with their interests. While we originally recruited organizations working in swing states and districts during the 2024 election season, this year we expanded to include organizations working year-round all over the country. From our outreach, over 150 new organizations created CaPA Connector profiles in 2025. We also expanded the private version – the CaPA Connector Plus for institutional investors – with more profiles and a wealth of additional information including budget documentation. We shared the CaPA Connector Plus with state donor tables, funding institutions, and large individual donors to increase the visibility of the great organizations featured in the Connector.
Grantmaking
As a pooled-resource grantmaker, CaPA funds organizations that align with the geographic, demographic, and or programatic preferences of our donors. Even in this off-cycle election year, support from CaPA donors allowed us to award $965,500 to 39 organizations. This support allowed groups to build their bases of members and volunteers, organize and defend their communities, and turn out voters for important state and local elections. Additionally, this year we actively encouraged donors who were interested in digging into the details of specific organizations profiled on the CaPA Connector to give directly to the organizations of their choice. While we are proud to be fostering direct connections between donors and programmatic organizations, this has made it more difficult to accurately track how much funding our donor network collectively moved. That said, we do know from some informal reporting that at least $500,000 was awarded to community-rooted groups found using the CaPA Connector.
2025 was a challenging year on many fronts for civic engagement organizations who faced threats from the administration, increasing needs in their communities, and limited government and – in some cases – philanthropic funding. Despite those challenges, members of the CaPA Cohort around the country continued to engage their communities in creative and strategic ways, with an eye towards 2026. They are starting the new year with solid voter mobilization plans, engaged volunteers, and the trust of their communities. We look forward to supporting their work in 2026 – in what will be an absolutely critical year for our democracy – to educate and mobilize voters to win elections up and down the ballot.
