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United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc

The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes as allowed by section 501c3 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…

$628k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$588,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$7.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$618k25%
FY20248$103k13%
FY202313$218k38%
FY202213$499k31%
FY20214$330k75%
FY20201$23k100%
FY20191$10k100%
FY20189$204k11%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$645kSocial Science$588kEducation$362kEnvironment$287kCivil Rights$275kRecreation & Sports$31kPhilanthropy$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIllinois Pirg Education Fund Inc: $167,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetTexas Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $136,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetPennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $112,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCalifornia Public Interest Research Group Edu Fund: $105,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetMassachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMaryland Public Interest Research Foundation Inc: $83,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetStudent Organizing Inc: $73,887 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetWashington Public Interest Research Group Foundation: $72,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetOnward Together Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetOspirg Foundation Inc: $58,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetNew York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetArizona Pirg Education Fund Inc: $47,594 over 3y, 13% of budgetCenter for Digital Democracy: $45,500 over 1y, 70% of budgetEnvironment America Research and Policy Center Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPirg New Voters Project Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWispirg Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetBill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennenvironment Research & Policy Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetColorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Environment America Research and Policy Center IncCO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund 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.

About United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc

How much does United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc give?
United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc reported 4 grants totaling $628,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (29%), Social Science (27%), Education (16%).
Who are United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Public Interest Research Inc ($588k), NAACP Empowerment Programs ($200k), Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc ($168k).
Does United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc, United States Energy Foundation, The Energy Foundation.
Where is United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc based?
United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc is based in CO.

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 26 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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