New Mexico · Nonprofit
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,638 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Joni Arends does
Mission
Educational
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public education and outreach through the ccns media network, ccns produces a weekly radio program of about 485 words, or about four minutes in length, called the "ccns news update." we then post the broadcast, podcast, written text and the associated visuals to our website at nuclearactive.org and to social media (facebook, instagram and twitter). Each broadcast is emailed to the media and several hundred subscribers.in addition, in order to encourage public participation in federal, state and local policy decisionmaking processes impacting public health and the environment, ccns researches and prepares public educational materials such as fact sheets, sample comment letters, and reports. These materials are distributed through the ccns media network.in both of these cases, the ccns news update and the written arguments based on factual grounds make it possible for people to take action or to speak to small groups. Ccns acts as an intermediary making it possible for people to accurately testify at local, state and federal public meetings and hearings. Ccns provides factual information for people who may not have the time to do the detailed research but are committed to safety…
$0 spentEnvironmental monitoring ccns scrutinizes the environmental and public health impacts from current and over 80 years of operations at lanl to downwind and downstream drinking water supplies and communities. Ccns notifies the public of opportunities to provide verbal and written comments about proposed changes at lanl and provides talking points to assist in making public comments.please see report in line 28 above detailing these types of public comment opportunities and stories about ongoing nuclear safety issues in new mexico and the world. For over a decade, ccns has been involved in one federal case and one new mexico state case challenging the permitting of a hazardous waste facility and associated activities at lanl at the radioactive liquid waste treatment facility (rlwtf), located immediately across the street from the plutonium facility. The one facility has one groundwater discharge permit from the new mexico environment department (nmed) and one discharge permit from the federal environmental protection agency (epa). Ccns challenges both permits in the new mexico and federal administrative processes and in the new mexico and federal courts.in november 2023, ccns…
$0 spentEnvironmental health and cleanupccns ensures protection of the air, soil, surface, ground and drinking water resources and the public health by the thorough review of federal and state permits that allow pollution to continue to be generated and released, thus causing harm. We provide informed technical comments to the federal, state and local agencies as well as sample comments for use by the public.please see report in line 28 above detailing these types of public comment opportunities and stories about ongoing nuclear safety issues in new mexico and the world.
$0 spentWeapons program - ccns monitors and encourages civic engagement in doe plans to expand and/or 'modernize' nuclear weapons production and waste generation and disposal in new mexico.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9k to $139k (+1411%).
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.
63% of CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joni Arends
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $150k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS’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
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
95% of CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS has grown faster than half of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS: 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 CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS?
- CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,638 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $157,638 in grants to CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY JONI ARENDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 3 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