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MINDFUL CITIZEN

MINDFUL CITIZEN (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$174k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$79k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Mindful Citizen does

Mission

Charitable and Scientific

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Disaster preparedness completed environmental review for nonnative incendiary tree removal project that will increase wildfire safety for thousands of people who live in the Wildland Urban Interface. This effort benefited over 30,000 people.

    $36,921 spentof which $34,147 as grants
    90% of program spending
  2. Protected access for all to free public parking areas in a small California town from for profit privatization. This effort benefited thousands of people.

    $3,334 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. Commenced work to increase opportunities for the less advantaged to access homes they can afford.

    $564 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,819.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2023 Revenue 129 ($155k) Expenses 560 ($243k) Net assets 140 ($124k)2024 Revenue 145 ($174k) Expenses 507 ($220k) Net assets 89 ($79k)
202220232024
Revenue (145)Expenses (507)Net assets (89)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 2023 to 2024, from $247k to $79k (−68%).

$89k
$247k
$79k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MINDFUL CITIZEN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’22
−$88k
’23
−$45k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Megan Bergkvist

Chairperson - Director

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MINDFUL CITIZEN’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

MINDFUL CITIZEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 MINDFUL CITIZEN.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 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

100% of MINDFUL CITIZEN'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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

MINDFUL CITIZEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

84%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINDFUL CITIZEN?
MINDFUL CITIZEN (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MINDFUL CITIZEN have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,000 in grants to MINDFUL CITIZEN.
Who is the largest funder of MINDFUL CITIZEN?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINDFUL CITIZEN 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.

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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 2022–2024), 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