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CITIZENS FOR A BETTER WISCONSIN INC

EIN 27-3052924 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2025
$355,000
Expenses 2025
$405,405

Program services were 99.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
C01
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 70721

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ESTABLISHED IN 2010, CITIZENS FOR A BETTER WISCONSIN, INC. ("CBW") IS A STATE-BASED INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION THAT CONDUCTS PUBLIC EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS LOBBYING ON THE IMPORTANT PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES FACING WISCONSIN. CBW WORKS TO ADVANCE BETTER PUBLIC POLICIES FOR WISCONSIN. TO ACCOMPLISH ITS SOCIAL WELFARE PURPOSES, CBW WORKS TO ADVANCE PUBLIC POLICIES THAT: PROTECT NATURAL RESOURCES, IMPROVE AIR QUALITY AND PROMOTE A BETTER WISCONSIN FOR ALL WISCONSIN RESIDENTS. CBW CONDUCTS STATEWIDE PROGRAMS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF BETTER PUBLIC POLICIES. CBW ALSO PROMOTES THE ADOPTION OF BETTER POLICIES BY FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CITIZENS FOR A BETTER WISCONSIN, INC. IS A STATE BASED INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION THAT CONDUCTS GRASSROOTS LOBBYING ON THE IMPORTANT PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES FACING WISCONSIN.

  • RESEARCH: CBW CONDUCTED RESEARCH AND PUBLIC OPINION POLLING ON KEY PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AND IDEAS AFFECTING WISCONSIN RESIDENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE, INCLUDING CLEAN ENERGY, ANTI-GAMING AND GOOD GOVERNMENT REFORMS.

    Expenses $307,000

  • ADVOCACY: CBW SPONSORED LOCAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS AND MADE GRANTS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES.

    Expenses $96,500 · Grants $96,500

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Wes Rohan

    PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Nathan Pankratz

    TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Brad Johnson

    SECRETARY/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $355,000
    Expenses
    $405,405
    Contributions
    $355,000
    Grants paid
    $96,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $280,000
    Expenses
    $229,300
    Contributions
    $280,000
    Grants paid
    $59,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $375,000
    Expenses
    $354,462
    Contributions
    $375,000
    Grants paid
    $232,578
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $300,000
    Expenses
    $373,041
    Contributions
    $300,000
    Grants paid
    $253,041

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $325,000
    Expenses
    $233,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,312

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,000
    Expenses
    $227,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,655

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,000
    Expenses
    $230,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,827

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $189,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $620,470

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $64,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $994

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.