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WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND

WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND (West Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,187,471 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($950,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$912k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$1.3M
16/34 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund does

Mission

Research and educate concerning environmental protections and surface owners' rights, environmental clean air, water, energy efficiency, affordable healthcare for all, and fair taxation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Research and educate concerning environmental protections and surface owners' rights, environmental clean air, water, and energy efficiency, etc.

    $1,082,287 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,082,287.

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 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($230k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2018 Revenue 121 ($228k) Expenses 94 ($217k) Net assets 116 ($76k)2019 Revenue 80 ($150k) Expenses 73 ($169k) Net assets 87 ($57k)2020 Revenue 276 ($520k) Expenses 152 ($350k) Net assets 344 ($227k)2021 Revenue 366 ($690k) Expenses 227 ($524k) Net assets 596 ($392k)2022 Revenue 389 ($734k) Expenses 204 ($471k) Net assets 996 ($656k)2023 Revenue 870 ($1.6M) Expenses 327 ($754k) Net assets 2341 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 484 ($912k) Expenses 503 ($1.2M) Net assets 1966 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (484)Expenses (503)Net assets (1966)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 2022 to 2023, from $656k to $1.5M (+135%).

$66k
$76k
$57k
$227k
$392k
$656k
$1.5M
$1.3M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 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.

−$42k
’17
$10k
’18
−$19k
’19
$170k
’20
$166k
’21
$263k
’22
$886k
’23
−$247k
’24
13
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

Gary Zuckett

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed879811109
Joined·+0·+0+5+2+1
No longer listed·1·1232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $79k → $1.4M.

12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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

WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND.

23%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 47% · 2021 31% · 2022 34% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.

“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

54% of WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 10 states in all.

VT
IL
NY
PA
CA
WV
VA
MD
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve13.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND

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 West Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WV

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • West Virginia Citizen Action Group · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND?
WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND (West Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,187,471 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($950,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,187,471 in grants to WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND?
CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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