Forth Mobility Fund

Forth Mobility Fund is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that provides stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, and outreach services supporting electric vehicle adoption and clean transportation initiatives. The organization operates as a federal grant recipient (78% of recent awards) under the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and receives smaller transactional purchases from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Forth Mobility Fund's customer base is concentrated in three agencies, with the Department of Energy dominating the portfolio through six cooperative agreements valued at approximately $14.2 million in obligated dollars. The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation has placed two purchase orders totaling $30.6 thousand for conference registrations and co-sponsorship at Forth's 2024 Roadmap Conference. The Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration accounts for one sub-grant award. The combined obligated dollar value across all awards—$14.2 million—substantially exceeds the combined potential value of $31 thousand listed in the portfolio, indicating that Forth's multi-year cooperative agreements carry material committed funding despite conservative initial valuations.

Forth's primary grant work centers on clean mobility and energy decarbonization. The organization holds cooperative agreements from DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy spanning the Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP), a program developing electrified transportation for underserved communities (award date August 1, 2022, completion June 30, 2027); the Leadership of Employers for Electrification Program (LEEP), targeting 2,500 employer workplace charging commitments and 20,000 electric vehicle support equipment port installations (award date August 1, 2022, completion October 31, 2025); Project LACE (Loans to Access Clean Electric Vehicles), focused on innovative financing models for EV adoption in Justice40 communities (award date July 1, 2024, completion June 30, 2025); the E-FARMS demonstration program for electrified agricultural equipment (award date September 22, 2023, completion September 21, 2026); and a Clean Cities and Communities (CC&C) Coalition outreach and engagement award supporting operations in the Honolulu territory (award date April 1, 2026, completion March 31, 2027). As a sub-recipient, Forth receives pass-through funding from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (award date September 17, 2024, program delivery) and from the Oregon Department of Transportation under the Innovative Mobility Federal Competitive Grants program (award date June 24, 2025, covering federal fiscal years 2025–2027).

Activity has been volatile—two awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026—with three awards (LEEP, Project LACE, and the ODOT sub-grant) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete or continuation risk. Forth's transactional EPA work (purchase orders for conference attendance and sponsorship) is episodic and does not anchor the organization's federal footprint. The nonprofit's capability profile aligns with DOE's vehicle technologies and decarbonization objectives: stakeholder convening, technical assistance to public and private partners, data collection and dissemination on clean mobility adoption, outreach and education on electric vehicle infrastructure and financing, and policy analysis supporting rural and underserved community access to electrified transportation.