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Citizens Against Government Waste

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think_tank · EIN 521363952 · US · canonical: citizens against government waste · 2 aliases · 1 outbound · 1 inbound

Related entities (24)

Same brand-name cluster — possible parent, subsidiary, PAC, or lobbying registration. Surfaced via head-token match (e.g. every "AMAZON …" org) and pg_trgm similarity for variant spellings. Not yet asserted as parent/child edges; treat as a navigation aid.

Activity

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  1. 2026-05-20 · Authored research for Grigory Menshikov · think-tank-publication-author
  2. 2026-05-20 · Published research on bill SECURE Data Act · think-tank-publication-mention

IRS Form 990

Citizens Against Government Waste EIN 52-1363952 · other · IRS-recognized since 1984

Source: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Numbers in USD; 0 = not reported that year.

Tax yearRevenueExpensesOfficer comp
2023$1,953,590$2,650,629
2022$2,348,354$2,591,874
2021$2,642,299$2,762,677
2020$2,502,988$2,769,288
2019$2,764,560$3,674,661
2018$3,117,817$3,816,306
2017$4,613,493$3,768,713
2016$2,656,500$3,741,609
2015$7,019,241$3,023,349
2014$2,979,764$3,435,427
2013$2,976,032$3,089,908
2012$3,267,300$3,303,535
2011$7,064,996$7,393,375

Publications (10)

Reports, papers, and commentary published by this think tank, ingested from its own RSS/Atom feed — most recent first.

Aliases (2)

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nonprofit521363952Citizens Against Government WasteUSgoldingest_think_tank_990s
wikidataQ5122658Citizens Against Government WasteUSgoldingest_think_tanks

Outbound edges (1)

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published_on_billHR 8413 — SECURE Data Actthink-tank-publication-mention

Inbound edges (1)

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Grigory Menshikovauthored_forthink-tank-publication-author

The full graph

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Legislation

Published research on bill 1 edge

Affiliations

Authored research for 1 edge

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