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Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$55kInternational$34kArts & Culture$30kCivil Rights$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEnvironment$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,333, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,584,990 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,565,657 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$11,333
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NETWORK$11,333
NEO PHILANTHROPY$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN NETWORK: $23k → 8%ASPIRATION: $10k → 10%ERISAT: $20k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 17%PLANTING CHANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 20%AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN: $8k → 14%WARTISTS ARTLORDS: $10k → 6%LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NETWORK: $11k → 8%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $12k → 17%AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN: $6k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $10k → 17%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $10k → 17%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$685k · 38% · 50 grants

Stated purpose: INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY · INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · ADVOCACY AND SOLIDARITY ACTION

East Asia and the Pacific$332k · 18% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY · INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · MEMBERSHIP AND NETWORK

South America$250k · 14% · 13 grants

Stated purpose: ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS · INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · CIVIC SPACE RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$213k · 12% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · CIVIC SPACE RESEARCH · ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$176k · 10% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: MEMBERSHIP AND NETWORK · INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · CIVIC SPACE RESEARCH

Central America and the Caribbean$86k · 5% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS · ADVOCACY AND SOLIDARITY ACTION

South Asia$55k · 3% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: INNOVATION AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT · ADVOCACY AND SOLIDARITY ACTION

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 3 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$104k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-51%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +27%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NETWORK FOR DEMOCRACY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue -92%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue -51%

Funded once

  • ES
    ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -71%
  • AA
    Aspiration Aspirationtechorggraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +252%
  • PC
    PLANTING CHANGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEO Philanthropy Inc: $55,332 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncLATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NETWORK FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $34,092 · InternationalLATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBB…ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION: $19,891 · Arts & CultureERISAT-ERITREAN SATELL…Wartists Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWartists IncAMERICANS FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN: $14,400 · Civil RightsAMERICANS …Aspiration Aspirationtechorg: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPLANTING CHANGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Environment
Public Benefit$55,332International$34,092Arts & Culture$29,891Civil Rights$14,400Community Improvement$10,000Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $55,332 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NETWORK FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $34,092 over 2y, 11% of budgetERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION: $19,891 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICANS FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN: $14,400 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAspiration Aspirationtechorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANTING CHANGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWartists Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation?

    Find your warmest path to Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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