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Public Citizen Foundation Inc
Work for consumer rights.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $2,047,909 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,205,297 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $157,388 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $987k
- $250k+2 grants · $975k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICANS FOR FINANCIAL REFORM EDUCATION FUND | $500,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN INC | $475,000 |
| AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON | $132,982 |
| COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS | $117,841 |
| TEXAS HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE | $113,886 |
| ACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFULLY | $104,400 |
| FAIR SHOT TEXAS | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL | $91,400 |
| BAYOU CITY WATERKEEPER | $86,400 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ADVOCATES OF GALENA PARK | $73,800 |
| COALITION FOR SENSIBLE SAFEGUARDS | $66,200 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY HOUSTON ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION | $20,000 |
| GENERATION VOTE EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| CAROLINA FOR ALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +84%
- PCPUBLIC CITIZEN INC2× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +71%
- AAAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON8× · 2017–2024 · $583k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- CTCITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -67%
- AAARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -100%
- IFInstitute for Southern Studies Incone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -84%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…
Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.
To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition of Community Organizations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR SENSIBLE SAFEGUARDS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Achieving Community Task Successfully ↗
- Who funds EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHOT TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY 21 EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds STAND UP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds BAYOU CITY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ADVOCATES OF GALENA PARK ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK EDUCATION PROGRAM NETWORK ADVOCATES FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Southern Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds ENERGY PROGRAMS CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FOR ALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Texas Solar Energy Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT TEXAS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Hopewell Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · The Ford Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Public Citizen Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.