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LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT

LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,150 to it, the largest being THE PENATES FOUNDATION ($380,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$399k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$692k
Net assets
$37k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Live Free or Die Alliance Dba Citizens Count does

Mission

Citizens count (live free or die alliance) is a nonpartisan nonprofit with a mission of making citizen engagement easier by providing unbiased information about issues and candidates, encouraging civil discussion and debate, and facilitating citizens taking action. The website is www.citizenscount.org.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintained "new hampshire's virtual town hall" website. Provided objective information in non-partisan ways about issues and candidates. Promoted civil exchanges of opinions in a variety of forums.

    $392,766 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,766.

02The 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 ($307k) Expenses 100 ($362k) Net assets -1341 ($-283942)2018 Revenue 282 ($867k) Expenses 158 ($573k) Net assets -120 ($-25429)2019 Revenue 142 ($438k) Expenses 146 ($530k) Net assets -581 ($-123115)2020 Revenue 135 ($414k) Expenses 74 ($268k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2021 Revenue 109 ($334k) Expenses 93 ($336k) Net assets 91 ($19k)2022 Revenue 130 ($398k) Expenses 107 ($389k) Net assets 137 ($29k)2023 Revenue 119 ($365k) Expenses 99 ($359k) Net assets 164 ($35k)2024 Revenue 130 ($399k) Expenses 110 ($397k) Net assets 174 ($37k)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (110)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $85k to $34k (−60%).

$85k
$34k
$98
$21k
$41k
$41k
$73k
$73k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$55k
’17
$293k
’18
−$92k
’19
$146k
’20
−$2k
’21
$10k
’22
$6k
’23
$2k
’24
2.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Anna Brown

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed68899999
Joined·+2+0+2+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·0010110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $69k → $125k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT’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

LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

43% 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 LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT.

55%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 82% · 2021 70% · 2022 58% · 2023 44% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.

NH

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

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’22
’23
New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT

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In New Hampshire

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

35%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT?
LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,150 to it, the largest being THE PENATES FOUNDATION ($380,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $692,150 in grants to LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT?
THE PENATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIVE FREE OR DIE ALLIANCE DBA CITIZENS COUNT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 5 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