Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION
EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,720,428 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($944,224). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $231k
What Equal Citizens Foundation does
Mission
Public education, research, and litigation to promote the idea of equal political rights to citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization launched an online content creation and distribution project called "citizens create", which aims to promote creation and distribution of democracy reform online content by channeling donations to the project to pay independent creators for making the content and digital advertisement to promote the content. The program expenses include advertising fees, compensations to consultants for digital marketing, content creation, public relations.
$63,649 spent52% of program spendingThe organization has ongoing digital campaigns and litigations that seek to fundamentally reform our election system and educate the public on democracy reform issues. The digital campaign creates original educational videos, podcasts, graphics, and written commentaries on current events related to u.s. Democracy reform, and disseminates the content to the public via the organization's website and social media accounts. The digital campaigns include an education project named "deliberations.us" that invites the public to deliberate the pros and cons of the electoral college system and reform options. Participants will meet in small groups on an online platform, learn about the facts of the issues, and share their opinions in group conversations. The program expenses include compensations to project organizers, consultant for content creation and technology, and website hosting fees.
$45,081 spent37% of program spendingThe organization launched an online video competition with a prize of 50,000 to educate the public on superpacs. The videos submitted to the competition were advertised in social media to raise awareness on superpacs and attract more engagements to the competition. A panel of independent judges decided the winning video and the prize was awarded. The program expenses include the prize money, advertising fees, compensations to consultants for digital marketing, content creation, public relations.
$13,902 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,632.
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. 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 $326k to $169k (−48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $31k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $203k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Equalcitizensus Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION’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
EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 65% · 2023 33% — 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
63% of EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
86% of EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION'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 $235k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION: 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 EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION?
- EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,720,428 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($944,224). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,720,428 in grants to EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $944,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUAL CITIZENS FOUNDATION 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.
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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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing