· Public charity
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 against discrimination on the basis of illegal or unjust criteria; (4) corporate and governmental…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC | $64,000 |
| OREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP | $49,000 |
| COPIRG CITIZEN LOBBY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FFFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT3× · 2018–2020 · $305k · revenue +111%
- JUJUBILEE USA NETWORK3× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue -42% · 38% of their budget
- OSOREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC2× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- EAENVIRONMENT AMERICA INCone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -17%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INCone grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue -89% · 89% of their budget
- APARIZONA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INCone grant, 2024 · $186k · 86% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
PPG is a non-partisan, not-for-profit team of doers, coaches, and advisors focused on making government work for its people. We help state and local governments optimize and streamline the most important work that they do: deliver public…
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…
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…
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…
Our team of researchers uncovers the facts; our staff brings our findings to the public through media as well as one-on-one interactions; and our advocates bring the voice of the public to the halls of power on behalf of consumers.
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.
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.
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…
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…
The purpose for which this corporation is organized is: To act on behalf of the public interest by means of charitable, educational, or any other activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Within these…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon State Public Interest Research Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jubilee Usa Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE USA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE-GROUP ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds COPIRG CITIZEN LOBBY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds POWERSWITCH ACTION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Energy Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · The Ford Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization United States Public Interest Research Group 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.
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 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.
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