California · Nonprofit
Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association
Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,400 to it, the largest being Lennert Erickson Foundation ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association does
Mission
Inform public on tax policies
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Distribution of educational material to the public informing them about the adverse effects of tax increases on the economy and advising them of specific proposed tax increases
$3,119,883 spent61% of program spendingLegislative advocacy opposing attempts to increase tax burden of government by direct and grass roots lobby efforts
$1,664,029 spent33% of program spendingPublic policy litigation to oppose court cases which would have the adverse effect of allowing taxes to be raised.
$294,087 spent6% of program spendingGrants and Allocations
$12,300 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,090,299.
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.
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 $7.3M to $8.2M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25 → $225.
From the IRS filings of Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association’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
Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 56% — 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
20% of Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% 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 FY2022, 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
100% of Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association: 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 Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association?
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,400 to it, the largest being Lennert Erickson Foundation ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $13,400 in grants to Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association?
- Lennert Erickson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 8 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