Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,097 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($201,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1000k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $504k
What Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Provide public interest legal/advocacy services to ensure effective and democratic representation of residential, farm, and small business utility customers before regulatory agencies, the legislature, the courts, and other public bodies.advocate for reliable, affordable, and sound utility service. Educate consumers on utility service through the preparation, compilation, analysis, and dissemination of information and resource materials relating to utilities regulation and public energy and water policy and generally engage in and support public education regarding utilities regulation and public energy and water policy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Participated in public service commission proceedings related to consumer gas, electric, and water utility services.
$749,749 spent85% of program spendingProvided educational materials and information to consumers on utility issues.
$95,840 spent11% of program spendingEngaged in various non-public service commission venues on utility issues affecting consumer gas, electric, and water utility services.
$29,494 spent3% of program spendingProvided educational materials and information to consumers on utility issues impacting residential and small business utility customers.
$2,469 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $877,552.
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 2021 to 2022, from $548k to $950k (+73%).
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 12% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Thomas Content
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $164k → $8k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC’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 WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k 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.
Against its field
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC?
- CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,097 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($201,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $278,097 in grants to CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $201,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2024), 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