Public Citizen INC: FY2023 Nonprofit Profile & Form 990 (EIN 23-7104508)

Revenue by fiscal year
FY2020	$8.3M
FY2021	$7.8M
FY2022	$8.0M
FY2023	$5.7M
FY2024	$8.4M
FY2025	$16.6M

Expenses by fiscal year
FY2020	$6.5M
FY2021	$8.3M
FY2022	$9.0M
FY2023	$7.1M
FY2024	$8.3M
FY2025	$11.8M

Net assets by fiscal year
FY2020	$4.8M
FY2021	$4.4M
FY2022	$3.0M
FY2023	$1.7M
FY2024	$1.9M
FY2025	$6.7M

Is it real?

Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jun 1972.

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Where the money goes

67 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.

67%

22%

Program services 67% · $4.8M Management & general 22% · $1.6M Fundraising 11% · $787K

Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.

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Who runs it and what they're paid

19 people listed on the 990; $404K paid to officers and key staff.

Part VII, Section A · reportable compensation · most recent filed roster (FY2022); the FY2023 filing did not itemize Part VII

Lisa Gilbert

Executive Vice President

$83,637Pt VII · Sec A

Joseph Stoshak

Chief Financial Officer (thru 4/23)

$75,404Pt VII · Sec A

Sherry Joseph

Director of Human Resources and Administration

$69,721Pt VII · Sec A

Peter Maybarduk

Director, Access to Medici

$62,445Pt VII · Sec A

Robert Weissman

President

$47,002Pt VII · Sec A

David Arkush

Director, Communications

$38,231Pt VII · Sec A

Allison Zieve

General Counsel

$20,704Pt VII · Sec A

Michael Kirkpatrick

Deputy General Counsel

$6,970Pt VII · Sec A

Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII

Name	FY2025	FY2024	FY2023	FY2022	FY2021	FY2020
Lisa Gilbert	$111,927	$76,096	$83,637	$108,952	$64,516	$33,308
Robert Weissman	$70,775	$48,333	$47,002	$84,871	$64,885	$54,824
Joseph Stoshak	—	$41,061	$75,404	$69,423	$63,954	$57,119
Noyan Eyigor	$72,219	$48,326	—	—	—	—
Sherry Joseph	—	—	$69,721	—	—	—
Peter Maybarduk	$1,402	$37,968	$62,445	$66,491	—	—
Tyson Slocum	$63,389	—	—	—	$18,355	$23,738
Lori M Wallach	—	—	—	—	—	$53,006

Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.

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Questions the 990 asks

The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.

Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes

Programs and updates

Advocates for consumer rights by challenging corporate globalization and trade policies that harm jobs, wages, democracy, health, safety, and the environment.

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3 programs · $3.8M · in their own filed words · FY2022

01

Public Information and Education

Public citizen is active in every public forum: congress, the courts, government agencies, and the news media. Public citizen believes that full disclosure of government information empowers citizens and consumers.

$2.1Mprogram expense

02

Congress Watch

This program seeks to curb the influence of special interest dollars that corrupt the political process and publicize corporate welfare expenditures that lard the federal budget, works for campaign finance reform and tough lobby registration requirements, champions consumer legislation including areas of transportation policy, lobbies to…

$1.2Mprogram expense

03

PC Texas

PC texas informs texans on important energy, trade, campaign finance reform, ethics, transportation, and utility issues.

$490Kprogram expense

Funders

Who pays for it.

From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.

Grants

Schedule I · received and paid

Grants received · FY2025

Action Now INCFY2025$220K

The Sambol Family Foundation INCFY2025$1K

Total grants receivedfrom 2 funders$221K

Grants paid · 23 grants · $952K · 2019–2024

Stand Up America INCNY · FY2024$66,000

MoveonorgOR · FY2024$66,000

Public Citizen Foundation INCDC · FY2024$50,000

The Coalition for Sensible Safeguar Ds INCDC · FY2024$20,000

Alliance for Youth OrganizingDC · FY2023$6,000

Moveon Org Civic ActionOR · FY2022$10,000

Americans for Financial ReformDC · FY2021$50,000

Common CauseDC · FY2021$7,000

Stand Up AlaskaFY2021$6,500

West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy INCWV · FY2021$6,000

For West Virginia's Future INCWV · FY2020$40,000

People for the American WayDC · FY2020$25,000

West Virginia Citizen Action Group INCWV · FY2020$19,800

First Institutional Baptist ChurchAZ · FY2020$10,000

Issue OneDC · FY2020$10,000

MoveonorgOR · FY2019$150,000

Stand Up America INCNY · FY2019$150,000

MoveonorgOR · FY2019$70,000

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By the numbers

The FY2023 990, line by line.

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1The main four

Money inPt VIII

$5.7M

Ln 12

Gifts and grantsLn 1h$5.4M

Other incomeLn 4–11$285K

Investment incomeLn 3$84K

Money outPt IX

$7.1M

Ln 25

Programscol B$4.8M

Managementcol C$1.6M

Fundraisingcol D$787K

Owns and owesPt X

$1.7M

net assets · Ln 32

Cash and savingsLn 1–2$416K

Total assetsLn 16$3.1M

LiabilitiesLn 26$1.4M

PeoplePt VI, VII

19

listed · VII A

PaidVII A8

Voting boardVI 1a10

IndependentVI 1b10

2In more detail

Revenue in detailPt VIII

Gifts and grantsLn 1h$5.4M

Noncash giftsLn 1g$21K

Investment incomeLn 3$84K

Other incomeLn 4–11$285K

Gains on assetsLn 7$36K

Total revenueLn 12$5.7M

Assets in detailPt X, end of year

CashLn 1$363K

SavingsLn 2$52K

Cash and savings togetherLn 1–2$416K

Pledges and grants receivableLn 3$16K

Accounts receivableLn 4$13K

Prepaid expenses and deferred chargesLn 9$360K

Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c$1.0M

InvestmentsLn 11–13$1.2M

Other assetsLn 15$118K

Total assetsLn 16$3.1M

LiabilitiesLn 26$1.4M

Net assetsLn 32$1.7M

OperationsPt I, VI

EmployeesI 5174

VolunteersI 60

Fiscal year endsHeaderSeptember

Conflict-of-interest policyVI 12aYes

Whistleblower policyVI 13Yes

Records policyVI 14Yes

3Year over year

Balance sheet, start vs end of yearPt X · col A, B

Line	Start FY23	End FY23
Cash and savingsLn 1–2	$1.3M	$416K
InvestmentsLn 11–13	$1.5M	$1.2M
Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c	$1.1M	$1.0M
Total assetsLn 16	$4.3M	$3.1M
LiabilitiesLn 26	$1.4M	$1.4M
Net assetsLn 32	$3.0M	$1.7M

4Every line

Statement of functional expensesPt IX · every line

Line	Total	Programs	Management	Fundraising
Grants to domestic organizationsLn 1	$10K	$10K
Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5	$206K	$123K	$53K	$30K
Other salaries and wagesLn 7	$2.4M	$2.1M	$326K	$69K
Pension plan contributionsLn 8	$99K	$78K	$19K	$1K
Other employee benefitsLn 9	$507K	$365K	$124K	$19K
Payroll taxesLn 10	$205K	$162K	$38K	$5K
Accounting feesLn 11c	$22K		$22K
Professional fundraising feesLn 11e	$219K			$219K
Investment management feesLn 11f	$11K		$11K
Other fees for servicesLn 11g	$666K	$415K	$360K	−$109K
Office expensesLn 13	$1.4M	$649K	$472K	$315K
Information technologyLn 14	$171K	$11K	$160K
OccupancyLn 16	$36K	$36K
TravelLn 17	$17K	$16K	$452	$158
Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19	$13K	$10K	$3K	$15
InterestLn 20	$5K		$5K
Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22	$32K		$32K
InsuranceLn 23	$34K		$34K
Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24	$843K	$381K	$234K	$227K
All other expensesLn 24e	$156K	$482K	−$336K	$10K
Total functional expensesLn 25	$7.1M	$4.8M	$1.6M	$787K

Filing history

Year	Money in	Money out	In minus out	Net assets	Download
FY2025 LatestFiled with the IRS Aug 4, 2026	$16.6M	$11.8M	$4.8M	$6.7M	990 PDF
FY2024Filed with the IRS May 29, 2025	$8.4M	$8.3M	$43K	$1.9M	990 PDF
FY2023 ViewingFiled with the IRS May 29, 2024	$5.7M	$7.1M	−$1.4M	$1.7M	990 PDF
FY2022Filed with the IRS Mar 13, 2023	$8.0M	$9.0M	−$982K	$3.0M	990 PDF
FY2021Filed with the IRS Feb 16, 2022	$7.8M	$8.3M	−$558K	$4.4M	990 PDF
FY2020Filed with the IRS Feb 4, 2021	$8.3M	$6.5M	$1.9M	$4.8M	990 PDF

Schedules filed Part IV

III · Programs R · Related orgs G · Fundraising L · Interested persons I · Grants A · Public support O · Explanations

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Part I · Summary $5,728,329 revenue, 12 lines filed

I-8 Contributions and grantsPrior year $7,549,730$5,359,088

I-9 Program service revenuePrior year $0$0

I-10 Investment incomePrior year $144,029$84,250

I-11 Other revenuePrior year $294,240$284,991

I-12 Total revenuePrior year $7,987,999$5,728,329

I-13 Grants and similar amounts paidPrior year $83,000$10,000

I-14 Benefits paid to membersPrior year $0$0

I-15 Salaries and benefitsPrior year $3,902,212$3,463,998

I-16a Professional fundraising feesPrior year $240,590$219,275

I-17 Other expensesPrior year $4,744,274$3,442,231

I-18 Total expensesPrior year $8,970,076$7,135,504

I-19 Revenue less expensesPrior year −$982,077−$1,407,175

Part VI · Governance 10 of 10 board members independent, no flags

VI-1a Voting members of the governing body10

VI-1b Independent voting members10

VI-2 Family or business relationship among officers or directorsNo

VI-12a Written conflict of interest policyYes

VI-13 Written whistleblower policyYes

VI-14 Document retention and destruction policyYes

VI-15a Process for setting top official's payYes

Part VIII · Statement of revenue $5,728,329 across 9 lines filed

VIII-1f All other contributions, gifts and grants$5,359,088

VIII-1g Noncash contributions (included above)$20,869

VIII-1h Total contributions, gifts and grants$5,359,088

VIII-3 Investment incomeExcluded from tax $47,909$47,909

VIII-5 RoyaltiesExcluded from tax $82,562$82,562

VIII-6 Net rental income or lossExcluded from tax $201,646$201,646

VIII-7 Net gain or loss on sales of assetsExcluded from tax $36,341$36,341

VIII-11a-d Other revenue, itemized rows (sum of 11a–11d as filed)Related to mission $783$783

VIII-12 Total revenueRelated to mission $783 · Unrelated business $0 · Excluded from tax $368,458$5,728,329

Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $7,135,504 across 20 lines filed

IX-1 Grants to domestic organizationsPrograms $10,000$10,000

IX-5 Pay of current officers, directors and key staffPrograms $123,385 · Management $52,804 · Fundraising $30,251$206,440

IX-7 Other salaries and wagesPrograms $2,050,795 · Management $326,388 · Fundraising $69,429$2,446,612

IX-8 Pension plan contributionsPrograms $78,411 · Management $19,194 · Fundraising $1,161$98,766

IX-9 Other employee benefitsPrograms $365,033 · Management $123,563 · Fundraising $18,903$507,499

IX-10 Payroll taxesPrograms $162,394 · Management $37,754 · Fundraising $4,533$204,681

IX-11c Accounting feesManagement $22,000$22,000

IX-11e Professional fundraising feesFundraising $219,275$219,275

IX-11f Investment management feesManagement $11,154$11,154

IX-11g Other fees for servicesPrograms $414,566 · Management $360,355 · Fundraising −$108,795$666,126

IX-13 Office expensesPrograms $649,481 · Management $472,141 · Fundraising $315,072$1,436,694

IX-14 Information technologyPrograms $10,662 · Management $160,036$170,698

IX-16 OccupancyPrograms $36,171$36,171

IX-17 TravelPrograms $16,148 · Management $452 · Fundraising $158$16,758

IX-19 Conferences, conventions and meetingsPrograms $10,015 · Management $2,743 · Fundraising $15$12,773

IX-20 InterestManagement $5,400$5,400

IX-22 Depreciation, depletion and amortizationManagement $31,832$31,832

IX-23 InsuranceManagement $34,438$34,438

IX-24 Other expenses (24a–d)Programs $381,247 · Management $234,242 · Fundraising $227,193$842,682

IX-24e All other expensesPrograms $481,949 · Management −$336,376 · Fundraising $9,932$155,505

IX-25 Total functional expensesPrograms $4,790,257 · Management $1,558,120 · Fundraising $787,127$7,135,504

Part X · Balance sheet $3,095,019 assets, 18 lines filed

X-1 Cash, non-interest-bearingStart of year $751,869$363,150

X-2 Savings and temporary cash investmentsStart of year $531,494$52,494

X-3 Pledges and grants receivable$15,500

X-4 Accounts receivableStart of year $63,045$13,132

X-9 Prepaid expenses and deferred chargesStart of year $360,608$359,796

X-10c Land, buildings and equipment, netStart of year $1,086,543$1,008,580

X-11 Publicly traded securitiesStart of year $1,478,398$1,164,850

X-15 Other assetsStart of year $68,877$117,517

X-16 Total assetsStart of year $4,340,834$3,095,019

X-17 Accounts payable and accrued expensesStart of year $1,301,341$1,229,014

X-19 Deferred revenueStart of year $24,812$24,322

X-21 Escrow or custodial accountsStart of year $12,601$12,665

X-25 Other liabilitiesStart of year $50,553$171,111

X-26 Total liabilitiesStart of year $1,389,307$1,437,112

X-27 Net assets without donor restrictionsStart of year $2,266,784$1,391,721

X-28 Net assets with donor restrictionsStart of year $684,743$266,186

X-32 Total net assets or fund balancesStart of year $2,951,527$1,657,907

X-33 Total liabilities and net assetsStart of year $4,340,834$3,095,019

Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $1,657,907 net assets at year end

XI-1 Total revenue$5,728,329

XI-2 Total expenses$7,135,504

XI-3 Revenue less expenses−$1,407,175

XI-4 Net assets at start of year$2,951,527

XI-5 Net unrealized gains (losses) on investments$113,555

XI-9 Other changes in net assets$0

XI-10 Net assets at end of year$1,657,907

Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2023 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File

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