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CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE

EIN 27-1657203 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$1,883,754
Expenses 2024
$2,381,765

Program services were 65.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R05
Classification
1000
Street
5850 SAN FELIPE ST STE 575A

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • TIM DUNN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARK MECKLER

    PRESIDENT / CEO

    Total calculated
    $209,084
    From this org
    $55,650
    From related orgs
    $138,050
    Other
    $15,384
    Hours/week
    11 + 29 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $55,650 + $138,050 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,420 + $10,964 related
    Filer's total
    $60,070 + $149,014 related

  • ERIC O'KEEFE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 3 related

  • ROBERT KELLY

    GENERAL COUNSEL & CFO

    Total calculated
    $138,984
    From this org
    $53,618
    From related orgs
    $69,982
    Other
    $15,384
    Hours/week
    17 + 23 related

  • RITA PETERS

    SPECIAL COUNSEL AND SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $92,051
    From this org
    $13,289
    From related orgs
    $57,625
    Other
    $21,137
    Hours/week
    7 + 33 related

  • PATRICIA MECKLER

    VP OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

    Total calculated
    $162,028
    From this org
    $68,862
    From related orgs
    $93,166
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    17 + 23 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $68,862 + $93,166 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $68,862 + $93,166 related

  • MICHAEL RUTHENBERG

    CHIEF GRASSROOTS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $135,027
    From this org
    $45,670
    From related orgs
    $68,220
    Other
    $21,137
    Hours/week
    16 + 24 related

  • MICHAEL PRATT

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $135,823
    From this org
    $20,018
    From related orgs
    $89,249
    Other
    $26,556
    Hours/week
    7 + 33 related

  • JASON GIRARD

    GRASSROOTS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $107,000
    From this org
    $62,188
    From related orgs
    $44,812
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    23 + 17 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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,883,754
    Expenses
    $2,381,765
    Contributions
    $1,855,664
    Grants paid
    $202,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,284,962
    Expenses
    $2,200,816
    Contributions
    $3,083,087
    Grants paid
    $48,659
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,536,162
    Expenses
    $2,161,712
    Contributions
    $1,728,178
    Grants paid
    $190,000

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2024 return

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

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

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.