Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION
CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,050 to it, the largest being America Votes ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $464k
- Net assets
- $0
What Center for Civic Information does
Mission
The Center for Civic Information encourages all americans to participate in democracy. We believe that a more informed, more representative electorate facilitates a healthy system of government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
An exploration of how handwritten mailers can increase turnout among underrepresented portions of the electorate -- in furtherance of our mission to increase participation in american democracy.
$222,614 spent71% of program spendingWe educated senior citizens on how administration policies and candidate platforms would affect their daily lives. This program was in furtherance of our mission to educate the public and understand how information changes citizens' civic perceptions and behavior.
$90,000 spentof which $90,000 as grants29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,614.
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.
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 $50k to $9k (−82%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION’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
CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION.
“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
100% of CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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.
Organizations like CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION: 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 CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION?
- CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,050 to it, the largest being America Votes ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $464,050 in grants to CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION?
- America Votes is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CIVIC INFORMATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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