Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CITIZEN56 INC
CITIZEN56 INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,710,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($16,710,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Citizen56 Inc does
Mission
To provide educational information about history, democracy, science, social institutions and the environment via online service platforms and applications, film, books, and other forms of relevant media.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
- during 2024, the organization produced the social impact theatrical play "the poisoner" that was inspired by the flint water crisis. We partnered with several artists, environmental groups, and activists and held community talkbacks about people power in the fight for environmental justice.- our book imprint, great wide open press, published a book about ben franklin and the organization gave away copies to educators. Great wide open press also reprinted the book "this is what a hero looks like" to give away to schools, libraries, and eductional institutions. - the organization created education guides for the environmetal films "the last mountain and "life among whales and the racial justice film "american violet".
$643,468 spentof which $13,813 as grants$10,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $643,468.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $39k to $15M (+38391%).
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.
95% of CITIZEN56 INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CITIZEN56 INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CITIZEN56 INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CITIZEN56 INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CITIZEN56 INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZEN56 INC: 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 CITIZEN56 INC?
- CITIZEN56 INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,710,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($16,710,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITIZEN56 INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,710,000 in grants to CITIZEN56 INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZEN56 INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $16,710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZEN56 INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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