How much does Public Citizen Foundation Inc give?

Public Citizen Foundation Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $794,094, out of $987,094 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Public Citizen Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Public Benefit (23%), Community Improvement (7%).

Who are Public Citizen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ($2.3M), Public Citizen Inc ($625k), Air Alliance Houston ($622k).

Does Public Citizen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Public Citizen Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Tides Foundation, Windward Fund.

Where is Public Citizen Foundation Inc based?

Public Citizen Foundation Inc is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Public Citizen Foundation Inc

Work for consumer rights.

$987k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 15
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 35%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $794k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $33,333
Largest grant, FY2025: $231,570
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 29; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $45M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Public Citizen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$794k	13%
FY2024	20	$2.0M	35%
FY2023	29	$1.6M	69%
FY2022	14	$957k	29%
FY2021	23	$1.1M	70%
FY2020	11	$486k	73%
FY2019	8	$386k	75%
FY2018	5	$226k	20%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.5MPublic Benefit$1.6MCommunity Improvement$519kCivil Rights$217kEducation$89kHealth$73kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kInternational$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund	$2,285,220	6	15%
Public Citizen Inc	$625,000	2	6%
Air Alliance Houston	$621,699	9	11%
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Inc	$490,900	3	94%
Coalition of Community Organizations	$471,240	9	56%
Texas Health and Environment Alliance Inc	$373,509	7	25%
Achieving Community Task Successfully	$312,633	6	22%
East Harris County Empowerment Council	$267,733	6	6%
Fair Shot Texas	$200,000	2	5%
Stand Up America Inc	$158,000	4	19%

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All grantees of Public Citizen Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund	$2,285,220	6	15%
Public Citizen Inc	$625,000	2	6%
Air Alliance Houston	$621,699	9	11%
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Inc	$490,900	3	94%
Coalition of Community Organizations	$471,240	9	56%
Texas Health and Environment Alliance Inc	$373,509	7	25%
Achieving Community Task Successfully	$312,633	6	22%
East Harris County Empowerment Council	$267,733	6	6%
Fair Shot Texas	$200,000	2	5%
Stand Up America Inc	$158,000	4	19%
Democracy 21 Education Fund	$135,000	2	8%
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc	$126,733	3	12%
Environmental Community Advocates of Galena Park	$114,133	3	30%
Healthy Gulf	$113,593	2	0%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy	$103,438	2	15%
Citizens Trade Campaign	$100,000	1	25%
Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church	$100,000	1	n/a
Constitutional Accountability Center	$83,000	2	1%
Arizona Advocacy Foundation	$80,000	1	4%
Network Education Program Network Advocates for Catholic Social Justice	$75,000	2	2%
Institute for Southern Studies Inc	$70,000	1	4%
Common Defense Education Fund Inc	$69,000	1	4%
Isaiah	$65,000	1	1%
Fort Bend County Houston Environmental Organization	$60,000	3	n/a
MoveOnorg Civic Action	$53,000	1	0%
Arizona Center for Empowerment	$45,000	1	1%
Energy Programs Consortium	$37,500	1	13%
Achieving Community Tasks Successfully	$36,150	1	n/a
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Carolina for All Education Foundation	$31,000	3	9%
Texas Solar Energy Society Inc	$25,500	2	6%
People for the American Way Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$22,490	1	1%
Center for American Progress	$20,000	1	0%
Environment Texas Research and Policy Center Inc	$18,000	1	6%
Centro Por la Justicia	$18,000	1	1%
Indivisible Project	$15,200	2	0%
Generation Vote Education Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
Promote the Vote Inc	$15,000	1	3%
The Center for Auto Safety Inc	$13,206	1	1%
Sierra Club Foundation	$13,205	1	0%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$10,900	1	0%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote	$10,000	1	0%
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections	$10,000	1	2%
Open Markets Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Common Ground	$10,000	1	0%
League of Women Voters Education Fund	$10,000	1	0%
All Voting Is Local	$10,000	1	0%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law	$10,000	1	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Our Revolution	$10,000	1	0%
Fight for the Future Education Fund	$10,000	1	1%
RACE Matters	$8,000	1	n/a
Empowering Arizona	$8,000	1	10%
Jolt Action Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Missouri Win	$7,500	1	0%
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
National Black Leadership Caucus	$7,500	1	n/a
Equal Ground Education Fund Inc	$7,000	1	1%
Alabama Association For The Arts Inc	$6,500	1	7%
In This Together Nepa Inc	$6,000	1	1%
Alabama Forward	$6,000	1	0%
Greater New Haven NAACP	$6,000	1	n/a
Transformative Justice Coalition	$5,500	1	1%
National Organization of Concerned Black Men Inc	$5,200	1	n/a

Public Citizen Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Venture FundDC37.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Public Citizen Foundation Inc

How much does Public Citizen Foundation Inc give?: Public Citizen Foundation Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $794,094, out of $987,094 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Public Citizen Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (63%), Public Benefit (23%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are Public Citizen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ($2.3M), Public Citizen Inc ($625k), Air Alliance Houston ($622k).
Does Public Citizen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Citizen Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Tides Foundation, Windward Fund.
Where is Public Citizen Foundation Inc based?: Public Citizen Foundation Inc is based in DC.