The Citizens Campaign Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223511801
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7325489798
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $927,449
- Expenses
- $923,584
- Assets
- $202,738
- Liabilities
- $41,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
People named in this filing
- HARRY S POZYCKI (CHAIRMAN)
- JAMES E JOHNSON ESQ (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- MARIA VIZCARRONDO (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For 25 years, the citizens campaign has been teaching residents in minority and economically challenged urban communities how to engage directly and constructively in local government problem solving without having to run for public office. Our training empowers citizens to research, shape for public use, and advance pragmatic solutions to city problems that they identify. Our experts provide guidance and strategic advice to help them gain adoption of their solutions -- over 300 laws and policies so far. Citizens are also trained in a proven, practitioner-informed, no-blame problem solving method praised by top national authorities. Our trainees' example of no-blame pursuit of pragmatic solutions provides an alternative to finger-pointing, partisan ideological gridlock and democratic decline. This work will expand the foundation for a new national public service, a "citizen service" designed to empower citizens to contribute to creating a fair and functional government.
What it reported doing in 2024
National citizen service: the citizen service gives every american the opportunity to take personal responsibility for creating a fair and functional democracy by signing up for power training in practical, no-blame problem solving of public issues and converting their training into public service as citizen leaders. The service provides access to our many resources, including for example, our leadership training manual citizen power published by rutgers university press; an online, certificate course in citizen leadership and no-blame problem solving; a national solutions sharing platform; and our law and policy task force of over 50 experienced and accomplished practitioners of local government who volunteer to assist citizen problem solving. The citizen service has won the endorsements and active support of the nation's top experts in civic engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $69.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $828K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.