Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Public Citizen Inc
Work for consumer rights
- $209k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $202k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Public Citizen Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $202k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $105k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $560k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $175k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $76k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoveOnorg Civic Action | $406,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Stand Up America Inc | $216,000 | 2 | 49% |
| Americans for Financial Reform | $100,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Common Cause | $82,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Citizens Trade Campaign | $78,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People for the American Way | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| For West Virginia's Future Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoveOnorg Civic Action | $406,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Stand Up America Inc | $216,000 | 2 | 49% |
| Americans for Financial Reform | $100,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Common Cause | $82,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Citizens Trade Campaign | $78,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People for the American Way | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| For West Virginia's Future Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| West Virginia Citizen Action Group | $19,800 | 1 | 3% |
| Democracy 21 | $15,000 | 1 | 14% |
| First Institutional Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| League of Women Voters of Colorado | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| NC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Issue One | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texans for Public Justice | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Stand Up Alaska | $6,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Alliance for Youth Organizing | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Public Citizen Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · Center for Community Change Action · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
About Public Citizen Inc
- How much does Public Citizen Inc give?
- Public Citizen Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $202,000, out of $208,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Public Citizen Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (55%), Civil Rights (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are Public Citizen Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: MoveOnorg Civic Action ($406k), Stand Up America Inc ($216k), Americans for Financial Reform ($100k).
- Does Public Citizen Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Public Citizen Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation, Center for Community Change Action.
- Where is Public Citizen Inc based?
- Public Citizen Inc is based in DC.
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