Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,227,511

Total expenses

$1,123,659

Contributions and grants received

$544,550

Grants paid

$14,000

Program service revenue

$616,640

Investment income

$65,715

Other revenue

$606

Total assets, end of year

$2,468,358

Total liabilities, end of year

$191,746

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,276,612

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$840,570

Management and general expenses

$154,656

Fundraising expenses

$128,433

Program service expenses (Part III)

$840,570

Program services were 74.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• PROGRAMS COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING SOCIAL, RACIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND WORKS ON DEVELOPING A MORE INFORMED AND EMPOWERED PUBLIC.

  Expenses $840,570 · Grants $14,000 · Revenue $617,246

• HEALTHCARE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN. ON-GOING PUBLIC EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTSORGANIZING CAMPAIGN FOCUSED ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH CARE REFORM AT THESTATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL. THE CAMPAIGN WORKS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC INSUPPORT OF FUNDAMENTAL REFORM OF OUR HEALTH SYSTEM TO SIGNIFICANTLYINCREASE ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTH CARE, REDUCE HEALTH CARE PRICES,ELIMINATE INEQUALITY IN HEALTH CARE, ESPECIALLY RACIAL INEQUALITY,REGULATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY ABUSES, AND ENSURE THAT CONSUMERSHAVE CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE DECISIONS. THE CAMPAIGN ALSOTRACKS MAJOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE REFORM, ANDPRODUCES PERIODIC RESEARCH REPORTS RELATED TO WISCONSIN HEALTH CARECOST, QUALITY, EQUITY AND ACCESS.

• CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY CAMPAIGN-THE ISSUE EDUCATION CAMPAIGNCOMBINES THREE KEY PRIORITIES IN THE ORGANIZATION"S MISSION: ECONOMIC ,ENVIRONMENTAL, AND RACIAL JUSTICE. THE VISION OF THE CAMPAIGN IS A MASSIVE ECONOMIC CONVERSION WHICH BOTH EVERTS A CLIMATE WARMING INDUCED GENOCIDE AND REBUILDS THE ECONOMIC THAT DRAMATICALLY IMPROVES EQUITY AND ERRADICATES RACIAL INEQUALITY. THIS INCLUDES LOCAL CAMPAIGNS IN MILWAUKEE AND IN THE SMALL METRO AREAS AND RURAL REGIONS AROUND THESTATE TO BUILD AND IMPLEMENT CLIMATE ACTION PLANS WITH ROBUST EQUITYCOMPONENTS, ENCOURAGING MASSIVE INVESTMENTS IN CONSERVATION ANDRENEWABLE ENERGY AT THE GOVERNMENTAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, ANDCONVERTING OUR INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE SYSTEM INTO A CLIMATESUSTAINABLE AND LOCAL ENTERPRISE TO MEET REGIONAL FOOD NEEDS. IT ALSOINCLUDES A UNIFIED FOCUS ON CHANGES IN STATE AND FEDERAL POLICY ANDMASSIVE NEW PUBLIC INVESTMENTS ALONG THE LINES OF A GREEN NEW DEAL.

• DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN-THE CAMPAIGN FOCUSES ON PROTECTING AND EXPANDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE, ON CREATING OPEN AND DEMOCRATIC STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVE TO THE PUBLIC, AND ON CLEANSING GOVERNMENT FROM SPECIAL INTEREST CORRUPTION. THE CAMPAIGN ALSO EDUCATES LOWER VOTER TURNOUT CONSTITUENCIES ON HOW TO NAVIGATE NEW ELECTION ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF SUCH CHANGES ON DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION.

• VALUES BASED COMMUNICATION-CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND WORKS TO DEVELOP MORE COMPELLING VALUES-BASED MESSAGES, AND TO TRAIN ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS TO DELIVER MORE COMPELLING MESSAGES THAT ADVANCE PROGRESSIVE VALUES. THIS INCLUDES STORIES PROJECT IS AN INTENSIVE EFFORT TO TRAIN AVERAGE CITIZENS TO TELL THEIR OWN STORIES AND TO DEVELOP THEIR ADVOCACY SKILLS. THE ORGANIZATION COMBINES TRADITIONAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING WITH CUTTING EDGE EARNED MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, WEB-BASED, AND NEW MEDIA STRATEGIES TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION OR CORE PROGRESSIVE VALUES.

• CIVIC ENGAGEMENT-DURING ELECTIONS AND BETWEEN ELECTIONS CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND WORKS TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AND TO ENGAGE THEM IN OUR DEMOCRACY. OUR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT WORK SEEKS TO CONNECT THE ISSUES WE WORK ON WITH CIVIC PARTICIPATION, INCLUDING VOTING AND OTHER FORMS OF DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• MICAH

  $10,000

  HEALTHCARE REFORM

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC

  501(C)(4) · SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE · WI

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

13 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

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