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Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc

When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, illinoispirg speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and wellbeing and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, advocacy, and…

$500k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2024
$500,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$500k0%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20191$400kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$500kPublic Benefit$400kCommunity Improvement$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United States Public Interest Research Group Inc$900,000213%
Community Organizing and Family Issues$10,00010%

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About Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc

How much does Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc give?
Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc reported 1 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Public Benefit (44%), Community Improvement (1%).
Who are Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: United States Public Interest Research Group Inc ($900k), Community Organizing and Family Issues ($10k).
Does Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc based?
Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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