Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC
CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,370,006 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,357,835). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Citizens for Citizens Inc does
Mission
To advocate on behalf of low-income residents and address the causes and effects of poverty through the provision of direct and integrated services, the promotion of self-sufficiency, and the advancement of social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Energy programs assist eligible households to pay their heating bills; provide repairs and replacement of heaters to homeowners and tenants; provide insulation, air sealing and perform health and safety testing at no cost to homeowners or tenants; and provide energy efficient light bulbs and determines if homeowners or tenants qualifies for an energy efficient refrigerator to replace an existing high use refrigerator.
$20,203,209 spentof which $17,558,397 as grants53% of program spendingHead start programs provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition and social services to pre-school children ages 2.9 - 5 years of age from income eligible families; and provide services for low-income expectant couples and families with infants and toddlers to enhance the children's development during their first three years.
$10,902,015 spent$11,116 earned by the program29% of program spendingChild care programs include a center-based program geared for school-aged children and provides a safe and informal educational environment for the children while the parents are working, attending school, enrolled in a job training program, or participating in a program offered by the massachusetts department of early education and care (eec); a year-round school-based program for children and provides a safe and informal education environment for the children at the end of the school day; and a home-based program geared for a mixed age group which includes infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and provides a safe, healthy, nurturing environment for young children while the parent/parents are working, attending school, seeking employment or participating in a program offered by the massachusetts department of children and families (dcf) and/or eec.
$3,269,297 spent$174,552 earned by the program9% of program spendingHealth programs provide comprehensive gynecological exams, birth control counseling and supplies, client education about hiv/aids prevention, screening for breast, pelvic, and cervical cancer, testing and treatment for most sexually transmitted infections, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing, nondirective counseling and referral for pregnancy, infertility, substance abuse, and other health conditions. Services have been expanded to include health assessment, sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment for men. Programs also provide adolescents with the tools they need to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases, including hiv, and pregnancy. Youth are provided with comprehensive and up-to-date information regarding their reproductive health. Wic program provides dietary assessment and counseling, nutrition education, electronic benefits for food, screening for immunizations, assessment, voter registration, farmer's market checks, infant feeding choices classes, breastfeeding peer counselors, breastfeeding education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and health and human service referrals for pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to…
$2,196,748 spent$110,454 earned by the program6% of program spendingSenior programs serve children throughout fall river and taunton who have exceptional or special needs and at the same time provides low income elderly individuals with the opportunity to work with these children and improve their income; place seniors over the age of 55 in public and private non-profit agencies throughout the greater fall river and greater taunton areas to address the needs of the community; and provide training for elders to be placed back into the work force.
$781,932 spent2% of program spendingOther client services including emergency food and shelter program; food pantry; operation christmas; information and referral; on-line supplemental nutrition assistance program; and volunteer income tax assistance program.
$747,362 spent$4,586 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,100,563.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $15M to $17M (+13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 90% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 85% · 2024 80% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Berube
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $631k → $520k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FOR CITIZENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. 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 CITIZENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CITIZENS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 74% · 2022 80% · 2023 83% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $134.8M on record — $79.6M federal, $55.2M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$75.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.1M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$27.0M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$15.7M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$12.4M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$270
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Citizens for Citizens Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC?
- CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,370,006 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,357,835). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $5,370,006 in grants to CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS INC?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,357,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS FOR CITIZENS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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