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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,216,494
Total expenses
$2,027,765
Contributions and grants received
$3,170,390
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$46,104
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,950,382
Total liabilities, end of year
$11,641
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,938,741
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,953,603
Management and general expenses
$23,536
Fundraising expenses
$50,626
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,953,603

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • THOMAS A SCHATZ

    PRESIDENT & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $389,936
    From this org
    $4,445
    From related orgs
    $351,171
    Other
    $34,320
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $4,401 + $347,715 related
    Bonus
    $44 + $3,456 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $429 + $33,891 related
    Filer's total
    $4,874 + $385,062 related

  • MEKDES YIFRU

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $115,954
    From this org
    $1,438
    From related orgs
    $113,599
    Other
    $917
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 related

  • DEBORAH COLLIER

    VP OF POLICY AND GOV'T AFF

    Total calculated
    $128,643
    From this org
    $1,270
    From related orgs
    $100,295
    Other
    $27,078
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 related

  • BOB HECKMAN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • MIKE ROSE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • TERRY GRACE SEARS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • ELIZABETH WRIGHT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
DISCRETIONARY BONUSES ARE PAID AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

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.

  • CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE

    501(C)(3) · TO PERFORM NONPARTISAN RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON GOVERNMENT WASTE. · DC

  • COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE PAC

    527 · POLITICAL · DC · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by CCAGW

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
18 July 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202502029349300020

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