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Americans for Nonsmokers Rights

Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,452 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($237,202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$125k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$237k
Net assets
$128k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Americans for Nonsmokers Rights does

Mission

Our mission is to promore smokefree air through prevention education programs, information dissemination, technical assistance, training and lobbying. We have decades of experience and specialize in how to prepare for tobacco industry interference, build support locally and pass effective smokefree laws.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Legislations, Lobbying and Supporting Efforts: Grassroots organizing, direct lobbying and other federal, state and local efforts to protect nonsmokers.

    $9,778 spentof which $26,500 as grants
    38% of program spending
  2. Public information, Technical assistance and Training, and other Advocacy: Informing and educating tobacco control leaders, activists and the general public nationwide on the secondhand smoke issues through publications, trainings, phone consultations, as well as other means.

    $16,288 spentof which $53,500 as grants
    62% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,066.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2021 Revenue 126 ($119k) Expenses 91 ($101k) Net assets 126 ($85k)2022 Revenue 56 ($52k) Expenses 49 ($54k) Net assets 124 ($84k)2023 Revenue 132 ($125k) Expenses 73 ($81k) Net assets 188 ($128k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (132)Expenses (73)Net assets (188)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $196k to $134k (−32%).

$139k
$196k
$134k
$136k
2020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’20
$18k
’21
−$2k
’22
$43k
’23

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Cynthia Hallett

President & CEO

Board chair

Sharon Eubanks

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $69k → $25k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Americans for Nonsmokers Rights’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Americans for Nonsmokers Rights leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Americans for Nonsmokers Rights.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Americans for Nonsmokers Rights draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Americans for Nonsmokers Rights

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

NY
CA
MD
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Americans for Nonsmokers Rights: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Americans for Nonsmokers Rights?
Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,452 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($237,202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Americans for Nonsmokers Rights have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $237,452 in grants to Americans for Nonsmokers Rights, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Americans for Nonsmokers Rights?
American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $237,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Americans for Nonsmokers Rights find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing