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CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE

EIN 52-1363952 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$1,558,891
Expenses 2025
$2,098,291

Program services were 66.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
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).

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
    $349,686
    From related orgs
    $4,427
    Other
    $39,143
    Hours/week
    39.5 + 0.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

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

  • MEKDES YIFRU

    CFO

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

  • DEBORAH COLLIER

    VP OF POLICY AND GOV'T AFF

    Total calculated
    $133,458
    From this org
    $103,749
    From related orgs
    $1,314
    Other
    $28,395
    Hours/week
    39.5 + 0.5 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
    $102,289
    From related orgs
    $1,295
    Other
    $5,750
    Hours/week
    39.5 + 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 — 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
    $1,558,891
    Expenses
    $2,098,291
    Contributions
    $1,481,289
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,923,277
    Expenses
    $2,215,242
    Contributions
    $1,885,655
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,953,590
    Expenses
    $2,650,629
    Contributions
    $1,725,994
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,348,354
    Expenses
    $2,591,874
    Contributions
    $2,161,655
    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.

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

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 2025 return

  • COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE

    501(C)(4) · NONPARTISAN LOBBYING ACTIVITIES TO INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT WASTE LEGISLATION. · DC · controlled entity

  • COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE PAC

    527 · POLITICAL · DC

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.