Citizens Foundation

Analysis

Citizens Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Colby, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Citizens Foundation reported income of $405k and spending of $2.3m, spending 560% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $297k to $405k (+36%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 128%. Over the whole period it spent 169% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Citizens Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Day Spring Foundation Inc ($405k), Worldbuilders Inc ($405k) and Otsego County United Way Inc ($405k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. At year end it held assets of $948k against liabilities of $38, net assets of $948k.