Washington · Nonprofit
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms does
Mission
Defend the 2nd amendment of the constitution and the right to keep and bear arms
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education of the public regarding present and proposed gun control legislation.
$534,502 spent51% of program spendingGrass-roots lobbying against gun control
$522,862 spent49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,057,364.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.9M to $2.3M (−23%).
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. 4 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.
Board chair
Alan M Gottlieb
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS’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
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
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 CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ksbn Radio Inc · corp_trust
- Kitz Radio Inc · corp_trust
- Keepandbeararmscom Inc · corp_trust
- Kbnp Radio Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS: 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 CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS?
- CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS?
- THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing