New Jersey · Nonprofit
CITIZENSHIP COUNTS
CITIZENSHIP COUNTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,556 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($82,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Citizenship Counts does
Mission
The mission of Citizenship Counts is to educate today's youth on the tenets of citizenship, encourage them to appreciate their rights and responsibilities as americans, and give them an opportunity to celebrate their citizenship by engaging in a naturalization ceremony or participating in a service-learning project.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Citizenship Counts citizenship core curriculum:our mission is to educate middle and high school students on the basic tenets of citizenship and teach them to appreciate and celebrate what it means to be a citizen of the united states of america. One of the main objectives of our curriculum is to integrate the naturalization process into the school's curriculum through interactive lesson plans and activities. We aim to inspire america's youth to participate in the citizenship process by holding naturalization ceremonies and other celebrations of citizenship in a school setting or at a local community venue.
$38,443 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2018 to 2019, from $68k to $28k (−59%).
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.
50% of CITIZENSHIP COUNTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Alysa Cooper
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CITIZENSHIP COUNTS’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
CITIZENSHIP COUNTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 62% · 2020 48% · 2021 77% · 2022 48% · 2023 88% — 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
33% of CITIZENSHIP COUNTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
CITIZENSHIP COUNTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CITIZENSHIP COUNTS's revenue fell 49% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,247 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CITIZENSHIP COUNTS
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 New Jersey
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 CITIZENSHIP COUNTS: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENSHIP COUNTS?
- CITIZENSHIP COUNTS (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,556 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($82,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENSHIP COUNTS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $213,556 in grants to CITIZENSHIP COUNTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENSHIP COUNTS?
- FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENSHIP COUNTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 12 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