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· Public charity

Student Organizing Inc

To promote the civic engagement of college and university students around environmental issues, consumer protection, college affordability, student debt, cost of textbooks, and hunger and homelessness.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.6MEnvironment$139kCivil Rights$72kEducation$67kSocial Science$17kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $155,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $165,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$64,000
NEW JERSEY PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$26,000
WASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$25,000
OREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PIRG New Voters Project Inc: $644k → 16%CA Student Public Interest Research Group Inc: $30k → 12%CALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $74k → 14%TEXPIRG EDUCATION FUND: $40k → 10%OREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $33k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND: $83k → 8%United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $125k → 12%WASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $35k → 9%NEW JERSEY PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $26k → 8%Maryland Public Interest Research Group Inc: $43k → 19%PIRG New Voters Project Inc: $96k → 16%CA Student Public Interest Research Group Inc: $24k → 12%CALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $64k → 14%OSPIRG STUDENTS: $26k → 12%NC Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $25k → 8%United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $48k → 12%Washington Public Interest Research Group: $31k → 9%NEW JERSEY PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $26k → 8%Maryland Public Interest Research Group Inc: $16k → 19%Campus Organizing Support Services Inc: $57k → 16%CA Student Public Interest Research Group inc: $17k → 12%CALIFORNIA STUDENT PIRG: $34k → 14%OREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $25k → 12%NCPIRG EDUCATION FUND: $23k → 8%United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $45k → 12%WASHPIRG STUDENTS: $27k → 9%New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Inc: $8k → 8%Maryland Public Interest Research Group Inc: $10k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $25k → 16%Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group Education Fund: $11k → 12%WASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $25k → 9%New Jersey Student Public Interest Research Group Inc: $7k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $22k → 16%Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group Education Fund: $11k → 12%Washington Public Interest Research Group: $14k → 9%MASSPIRG STUDENTS: $17k → 16%WA Public Interest Research Group Inc: $10k → 9%MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $15k → 16%Campus Organizing Support Services Inc: $11k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.8M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PN
    PIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $740k · revenue +82% · 85% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $218k · revenue +26%
  • MS
    MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -40% · 80% of their budget
  • OS
    OREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +16%
  • MP
    MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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…

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2
United States Public Interest Research Group Inc

Operate exclusively for the promotion of social welfare by undertaking the following activities: (a) to identify problems and advocate solutions in the areas of: (1) consumer protection; (2) environmental preservation; (3) protection…

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3
New York Public Interest Research Group Inc

The new york public interest research group nypirg, new york state's largest studentdirected research and civic engagement organization, is uniquely designed to provideexperiential learning and civic engagement opportunities for college…

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4
Maryland Public Interest Research Foundation Inc

With public debate around important issues often dominated by special interests pursuing their own narrow agenda, Maryland PIRG Foundation offers an independent voice that works on behalf of the public interest. Maryland PIRG Foundation…

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5
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc

Protect consumers and promote good government. we investigate problems, craft solutions, educate the public, and offer bay staters meaningful opportunities for civic participation.

Public Benefit
6
Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to promote social welfare within the meaning of Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. The corporation's activities may include public education, research, litigation, and advocacy on issues…

Public Benefit
7
New Mexico Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc

The Corporation is organized for the purposes of enhancing the social welfare of all New Mexicans through advocacy on issues of environmental and public concern. This objective shalll be achieved by the following means: (A) The corporation…

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8
Montana Public Interest Research Group

The montana public interest research group (montpirg) is a student directed non-partisan organization dedicated to creating positive change by educating, organizing, mobilizing, and empowering the next generation of civic leaders.

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9
California Public Interest Research Group Edu Fund

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in public education within the meaning of section 501c3 of the internal revenue code. the corporations activities may include public education, research, and litigation on issues affecting the…

Recreation & Sports
10
Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Inc

Pennsylvania public interest group delivers persistent, result oriented public interest activism that protects consumers, encourages a fair and sustainable economy, and fosters a democratic government.

Public Benefit
11
North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to identify, research and analyze problems affecting the public interest and social welfare, and to engage in advocacy, education and litigation in furtherance of the public interest.

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12
Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc

To conduct research, policy analysis, and public education to advance solutions to problems that affect consumers' healthy, safety, and well-being. the organization's mission is to spotlight the problems that threaten the future and offer…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aguila Youth Leadership Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INC: $739,734 · OtherPIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INCCALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $243,155 · OtherCALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUPNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC: $130,784 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INCWASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $86,500 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUPMASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $71,976 · OtherMARYLAND PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $68,739 · OtherNEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $66,794 · OtherWASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $54,833 · Other+3 more: $83,000 · Other+3 moreUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $217,565 · Public BenefitUNITED STATES PUB…OREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,988 · Public BenefitOREGON STUDENT PU…CAMPUS ORGANIZING SUPPORT SERVICES: $67,470 · EducationAGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,545,515Public Benefit$297,553Education$67,470Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIRG NEW VOTERS PROJECT INC: $739,734 over 2y, 85% of budgetCALIFORNIA STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $243,155 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $217,565 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC: $130,784 over 3y, 23% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $86,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetOREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,988 over 4y, 18% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $71,976 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMARYLAND PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $68,739 over 3y, 67% of budgetCAMPUS ORGANIZING SUPPORT SERVICES: $67,470 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $66,794 over 4y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: $54,833 over 3y, 33% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetOREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $26,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAGUILA YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pirg New Voters Proje…Environment America R…
Pirg New Voters Project IncMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pirg New Voters Project Inc · Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Student Organizing Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Student Organizing Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Student Organizing Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Student Organizing Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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