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COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC)

COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Voice Inc ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$28k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$95k
Net assets
$67k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Committee to Inform Voters on Issues & Candidates (Civic) does

Mission

To promote social welfare for citizens, business, and communities in texas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The alliance for securing and strengthening the economy in texas helps to protect businesses from burdensome regulations

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($168k) Expenses 100 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2019 Revenue 85 ($143k) Expenses 136 ($131k) Net assets 112 ($113k)2020 Revenue 16 ($27k) Expenses 72 ($69k) Net assets 70 ($71k)2021 Revenue 17 ($28k) Expenses 42 ($40k) Net assets 58 ($59k)2022 Revenue 3 ($5k) Expenses 21 ($21k) Net assets 43 ($43k)2023 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 4 ($4k) Net assets 39 ($40k)2024 Revenue 16 ($28k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 67 ($67k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (16)Expenses (0)Net assets (67)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $129k to $71k (−45%).

$117k
$129k
$71k
$59k
$44k
$41k
$68k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’18
$12k
’19
−$42k
’20
−$12k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$4k
’23
$28k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Jo Betsy Norton

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $20k.

Funder
'18
'19
total
$75k
Energy Action Fundunclassified
$20k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC)’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

COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC).

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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

COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.

CA
DC

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

’18
’19
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC)

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC): 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 COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC)?
COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Voice Inc ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC).
Who is the largest funder of COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC)?
Democracy Fund Voice Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMITTEE TO INFORM VOTERS ON ISSUES & CANDIDATES (CIVIC) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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