UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC

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UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC

Q: How much did UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC grant in FY2023?

UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC reported 13 grants totaling $217,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Q: Where is UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC based?

UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC is based in CO.

The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes as allowed by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including, for such purposes, identifying, researching, analyzing, and pursuing solutions to problems of consumer protection, environmental preservation, corporate and governmental…

$218k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

engage educationworksprotectactivities educationeducation litigationenvironmentinterest

2023

clintondedicateddebatesbillcriticaldemocracyfairness security

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k12 grants · $213k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

NY PUBLIC INTEREST GROUP FUND INC$25,000
COPIRG$25,000
ILLINOIS PIRG ED FUND$22,500
MASSPIRG FOUNDATION$22,500
CALPIRG$22,500
ARIZONA PIRG$15,000
WASHPIRG FOUNDATION$15,000
OSPIRG FOUNDATION$15,000
MARYLAND PIRG FOUNDATION$15,000
NCPIRG EDUCATION FUND$15,000
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION$10,000
PENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AND POLICY$10,000
FCAN FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$866k · 12 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$866k

$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

-29%

Still filing today

75%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

CP
California PIRG Education Fun
2× · 2022–2023 · $88k · revenue +55%
MP
Maryland Public Interest Res
2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +57%
ME
MassPIRG Education Fund
2× · 2018–2022 · $74k · revenue +63%

Funded once

NE
NAACP Empowerment Programs
one grant, 2021 · $200k
OT
Onward Together Fopundation
one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -93%
EA
Environment America R&Pgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +169%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Inc

MASSPIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, MASSPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and…

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Copirg Citizen Lobby Inc

CoPIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, CoPIRG speaks up and takes action.

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Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Inc

When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, WISPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and wellbeing and fight to end them, using the time-tested…

Public Benefit

United States Public Interest Research Group Inc

The purpose for which the corporation is formed is to 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…

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North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby Inc

When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, NCPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and wellbeing and fight to end them, using the time-tested…

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California Public Interest Research Group Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501c4 of the internal revenue code. activities may include but are not limited to, research, education and advocacy in the areas of consumer…

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Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc

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Pennslyvania Public Interest Research Group Inc

Pennslyvania public interest group delivers persisent, result oriented public interest activism that proteceds consumers, encourages a fair and sustainable economy, and fosters democratic government.

Public Benefit

North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Educ Fund Inc

When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, Inc. speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health…

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Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center

The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, and education to protect the environment and people of Georgia, including, but not limited to, the quality of Georgia's air,…

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Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc

The corporation is organized exclusively for educational and research purposes within the meaning of section 501c3 of the internal revenue code of 1954 (or corresponding provisions of any future u.s internal revenue law), including for…

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Environmental Massachusetts Research and Policy Center

Environment Massachusetts Research and Policy Center's mission is to pursue solutions to environmental issues affecting the people of Massachusetts.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Public Interest Research Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/19

Grantees still filing

11/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$767,594Public Benefit$199,500Environment$95,000Recreation & Sports$87,500Human Services$63,887Civil Rights$60,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United States Energy FoundationCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Texas PIRG Education Fund.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 522422392 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Texas PIRG Education Fund, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 76% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United States Public Int Research Grp Edu Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to United States Public Int Research Grp Edu Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United States Public Int Research Grp Edu Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED STATES PUBLIC INT RESEARCH GRP EDU FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United States Public Int Research Grp Edu Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph