Minnesota · Nonprofit
CIVIC CAUCUS
CIVIC CAUCUS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,502 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($43,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Civic Caucus does
Mission
public affairs information and education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During 2024, the Civic Caucus developed plans for a 2025 interview series series to be entitled "Restoring Faith in Minnesota Institutions," which will feature accomplished speakers discussing important Minnesota institutions of public policy. To add an element of mentoring and engaging new leadership, each interview panel will pair two policy veterans with two high school or college age young persons, along with a moderator. Following each interview, a write up and Zoom recording will be distributed to the Civic Caucus readership. In 2024, the Civic Caucus was added to MNOpedia, a Wikipedia-like tool, run by the Minnesota Historical Society. Civic Caucus staff worked with MNOpedia staff to create an overview of the rich history of the Civic Caucus. The Civic Caucus also focused on website improvements, including a revamped, expanded, and improved Civic Directory, the comprehensive database of Minnesota civic organizations that the Civic Caucus maintains as a service to its readers and to Minnesota's public policy community. The Civic Caucus also continued work on a history project, aiming to document and analyze Minnesota's rich history of politics and policy, featuring politics,…
$27,558 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,558.
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 $45k to $32k (−29%).
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.
96% of CIVIC CAUCUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Janis Clay
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $39k → $500.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CIVIC CAUCUS’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
CIVIC CAUCUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 CIVIC CAUCUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 85% · 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
57% of CIVIC CAUCUS'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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
CIVIC CAUCUS's revenue fell 27% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CIVIC CAUCUS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVIC CAUCUS: 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 CIVIC CAUCUS?
- CIVIC CAUCUS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,502 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($43,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIVIC CAUCUS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $76,502 in grants to CIVIC CAUCUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIC CAUCUS?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIC CAUCUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 5 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