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CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC

CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,145,200 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($3,040,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
$292k
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Citizens Alliance of America Foundation Inc does

Mission

Citizens allliance of america foundation works to educate americans about the value of citizen legislatures through educational programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Citizens alliance of america foundation educated americans about the value of citizen legislatures through educational programs.

    $2,687,348 spentof which $2,050,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,687,348.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($970k) Expenses 100 ($400k) Net assets 100 ($570k)2022 Revenue 94 ($907k) Expenses 352 ($1.4M) Net assets 12 ($69k)2023 Revenue 131 ($1.3M) Expenses 285 ($1.1M) Net assets 35 ($201k)2024 Revenue 292 ($2.8M) Expenses 686 ($2.7M) Net assets 51 ($292k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (292)Expenses (686)Net assets (51)Peer revenue range

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 $970k to $69k (−93%).

$970k
$69k
$202k
$307k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$570k
’21
−$501k
’22
$131k
’23
$91k
’24
1.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Cliff Maloney

CEO of citizens alliance of america

Board chair

Justin Greiss

Chair & COO of citizens alliance of america

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed2257
Joined···+2
No longer listed···0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $755k → $1.3M.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION 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.

How concentrated its funding is

CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

83% 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 CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC.

73%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.

“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

83% of CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION 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. Of the $701k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states.

ND
MD
DE
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Citizens Alliance of America Action · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC?
CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,145,200 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($3,040,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,145,200 in grants to CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC?
Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,040,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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