Colorado · Nonprofit
CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT
CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,000 to it, the largest being BETTER JOBS COALITION ($85,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,039 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Unite for Coloradoshared fundersportfolio match
- Colorado Taxpayers' Advocate Fund Incshared funders
- The American Promise Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
100% of CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $85k.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT’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 FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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 CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
77% of CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Unite for Coloradoshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Taxpayers' Advocate Fund Incshared fundersCO · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- The American Promise Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building America's Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deer Creek Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Article IVportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Citizen Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Accountability Integrity & Research in Elections Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America Works USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forward Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cloud Mountain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
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 CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT?
- CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,000 to it, the largest being BETTER JOBS COALITION ($85,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $155,000 in grants to CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT?
- BETTER JOBS COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS FOR A SOUND GOVERNMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing