Ohio · Nonprofit
Citizens Not Politicians
Citizens Not Politicians (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,170,000 to it, the largest being Article IV ($10,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fundportfolio match
- 55 Green Meadowsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Not Politicians’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 Not Politicians leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Not Politicians.
“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
Citizens Not Politicians draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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. Your 18 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 55 Green Meadowsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Voiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Redistricting Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Citizen Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Empowering Ohio's Economy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Youth Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Voting Is Local Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grove Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Way to Win Action Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 113 organizations that share your funders
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 Not Politicians
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens Not Politicians: 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 Not Politicians?
- Citizens Not Politicians (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,170,000 to it, the largest being Article IV ($10,700,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens Not Politicians have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $34,170,000 in grants to Citizens Not Politicians, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens Not Politicians?
- Article IV is the largest funder on record, with $10,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens Not Politicians find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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