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COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE

EIN 52-1369152 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$3,194,497
Expenses 2025
$1,558,638

Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
W240
Classification
3000
Street
317 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NE STE 300

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

CONDUCT NONPARTISAN PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS, LOBBYING ACTIVITIES, ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE LEGISLATION AND PROGRAMS INVOLVING GOVERNMENT WASTE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONDUCT NONPARTISAN PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND LOBBYING ACTIVITIES.

  • ADVOCATING THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE AND INEFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT BY CARRYING OUT NONPARTISAN PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS, LOBBYING ACTIVITIES, AND ATTEMPTING TO INFLUENCE LEGISLATION ON RELATED MATTERS.

    Expenses $1,463,786

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • THOMAS A SCHATZ

    PRESIDENT & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $393,256
    From this org
    $4,427
    From related orgs
    $349,686
    Other
    $39,143
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $4,389 + $346,723 related
    Bonus
    $38 + $2,963 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $489 + $38,654 related
    Filer's total
    $4,916 + $388,340 related

  • MEKDES YIFRU

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $120,110
    From this org
    $1,490
    From related orgs
    $117,684
    Other
    $936
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 related

  • DEBORAH COLLIER

    VP OF POLICY AND GOV'T AFF

    Total calculated
    $133,458
    From this org
    $1,314
    From related orgs
    $103,749
    Other
    $28,395
    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

  • MARTIN RUNDLE

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $109,334
    From this org
    $1,295
    From related orgs
    $102,289
    Other
    $5,750
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 39.5 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,194,497
    Expenses
    $1,558,638
    Contributions
    $3,131,020
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,216,494
    Expenses
    $2,027,765
    Contributions
    $3,170,390
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,306,606
    Expenses
    $9,492,901
    Contributions
    $10,219,729
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $668,293
    Expenses
    $579,471
    Contributions
    $668,293
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $333,934
    Expenses
    $196,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,327

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,753,415
    Expenses
    $1,629,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,977

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $847,241
    Expenses
    $825,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,949

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,154
    Expenses
    $368,832
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,426

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,662
    Expenses
    $471,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,536

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,188
    Expenses
    $582,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,263

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • 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

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.