How much did PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Public Benefit$3.2MEnvironment$1.2MCommunity Improvement$810kCivil Rights$771kEducation$289kSocial Science$70kReligion$65kCrime & Legal$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$383k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

ford corporatecorporate accountabilityhealthy porthealth

2020

engagingdemocracy servesserves protectsprotects checkschecks balanceshealthy portdeclaration democracy

2021

collaborate partnerspartners developdevelop strategiesstrategies aroundaround declarationwinter stormplant

2022

reforms defendingdefending attacksattacks electionsreporthealthy portsports houstonfederal democracy

2023

freedoms votevote mobilizationlivesreforms mobilizationmlkdedicatedhealthy ports

2024

member healthport hpccorganize educatejohn lewislewis commemorationcommemoration actionaction organize

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k5 grants · $66k
$50k–250k10 grants · $987k
$250k+2 grants · $975k

$86,400

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
PHILADELPHIA PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH$100,000
FAIR SHOT TEXAS$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

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 19 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +185% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$913k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+185%

+10%

Still filing today

95%

78%

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 ImprovementEducationSocial ScienceOther

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

PC
PUBLIC CITIZEN INC
2× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +62%
AA
AIR ALLIANCE OF HOUSTON
7× · 2018–2024 · $543k · revenue +335%
CO
COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS
7× · 2018–2024 · $428k · revenue +905% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

CT
CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -52%
AA
ARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -96%
IF
INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -78%

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

04Your field

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.

Electoral Collective Action

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.

Civil Rights

Texas Campaign for the Environment

Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.

Environment

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Electoral Collective

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.

Civil Rights

California Environmental Voters

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…

Civil Rights

United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

Clean Energy for America Inc

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…

Environment

Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

Policy and advocacy

Civil Rights

The Alliance for Collective Action

To bring people together to develop and advance solutions for an inclusive, regenerative future.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union

To champion individual rights under a charter granted by the ACLU (National Affiliate).

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and the most unlike its peers is Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/66

the rest of the field

10%

1,356/12,935

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.

05the grantee network

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/58

Grantees still filing

40/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Benefit$3,215,650Environment$1,208,393Community Improvement$810,297Civil Rights$770,900Other$491,556Education$289,300Social Science$70,000

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.

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.

New Venture FundDC38.1× 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 · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Proteus Fund 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COALITION FOR SENSIBLE SAFEGUARDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue held over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 922826096 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COALITION FOR SENSIBLE SAFEGUARDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Public Citizen Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Public Citizen Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Public Citizen Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

58 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Public Citizen Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph