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CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,616,462 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($12,685,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.0M
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$21M
Grants received
$7.7M
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%

Against its field

CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($8.6M) Net assets 100 ($5.0M)2018 Revenue 88 ($9.2M) Expenses 102 ($8.8M) Net assets 109 ($5.4M)2019 Revenue 102 ($11M) Expenses 117 ($10M) Net assets 122 ($6.1M)2020 Revenue 97 ($10M) Expenses 112 ($9.6M) Net assets 96 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 134 ($14M) Expenses 115 ($9.9M) Net assets 180 ($9.0M)2022 Revenue 106 ($11M) Expenses 95 ($8.2M) Net assets 240 ($12M)2023 Revenue 101 ($11M) Expenses 119 ($10M) Net assets 246 ($12M)2024 Revenue 58 ($6.1M) Expenses 101 ($8.7M) Net assets 194 ($9.7M)2025 Revenue 57 ($6.0M) Expenses 92 ($7.9M) Net assets 155 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (92)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 74% · 2018 52% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 75% · 2024 57% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.9M
17
$438k
18
$680k
19
$580k
20
$4.2M
21
$3.0M
22
$339k
23
$2.6M
24
$1.9M
25
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $528k → $4.3M.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% 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 CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION’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

CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 74% · 2019 58% · 2020 59% · 2021 51% · 2022 74% · 2023 67%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

50% of CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

MI
NY
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation (Civicus Rsa) · exempt
  • Civicus Geneva · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: 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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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 CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION?
CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,616,462 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($12,685,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $20,616,462 in grants to CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION?
The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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