Ohio · Nonprofit
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,000 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($495,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $586k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $323k
What Citizens Utility Board of Ohio does
Mission
The Citizens Utility Board of Ohio (cub ohio) works on behalf of residential and small business utility customers. With membership across the state, cub ohio works for cheaper bills, reliable service, transparency, consumer rights, and clean, healthy energy delivered equitably. Our work includes addressing the climate crisis by cleaning up our energy systems and addressing systemic racism by working for environmental justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cub ohio conducted public education programs on behalf of ohio residential and small business utility consumers, engaging consumers, the general public, community leaders, and state and local government leaders. With more than 1,000 members across the state in the service territory of all four investor-owned utilities and that of many rural co-ops and municipal utilities, cub ohio served as a consumer education voice for cheaper bills, reliable service, transparency, consumer rights, and clean, healthy energy delivered equitably. We educate business leaders on deployment of new technologies and energy innovation in a manner that can reduce pollution, address the climate crisis, combat systemic racism, and increase environmental justice. Cub ohio intervened in multiple legal dockets at the public utilities commission of ohio to lower consumer costs and lower emissions; educated municipal leaders about municipal utility policy and best practices, and educated state leaders about solar energy; energy efficiency, and lowering consumer costs by removing legacy subsidies. As part of our work with local governments, we facilitated implementation of inflation reduction act funds by local…
$310,741 spent$10,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,741.
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.
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 $225k to $573k (+154%).
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.
94% of CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $303k → $370k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cub Consumer Education and Research Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO raised.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO’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 UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 58% · 2023 43% — 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
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cub Consumer Education & Research · exempt
- Cub Ohio Advocacy Group · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO: 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 UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO?
- CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,000 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($495,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,253,000 in grants to CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $495,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO 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.
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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 6 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