Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,762,500 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($2,481,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Center for Public Interest Research Inc does
Mission
The mission of the center for public interest research is to engage in public research and education and to assist other organizations engaged in similar activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organizational development and support program: the organizational development and support program provides 501 (c)(3) charitable public interest organizations with backup and assistance in areas such as program development and packaging, digital and social media organizing, and fundraising.
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$438,335 spent$283,444 earned by the program22% of program spendingPolicy research program: the research program, called the frontier group, provides information and ideas to build a healthier, more sustainable america. Our experts and writers deliver timely research and analysis that is accessible to the public, applying insights gleaned from diverse fields of knowledge to arrive at new ideas for solving pressing problems. We work to promote and protect core elements of a happy human life: clean air and water, healthy and sustainable food, meaningful connections with one another and with the natural world that surrounds us, and institutions from the marketplace to the government that support flourishing communities. And we strive to point out the opportunities afforded by a moment when profound change is both more possible and more urgently needed than ever.
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$36,196 spentof which $35,000 as grants2% of program spendingPolicy research program: the research program, called the frontier group, provides information and ideas to build a healthier, more sustainable america. Our experts and writers deliver timely research and analysis that is accessible to the public, applying insights gleaned from diverse fields of knowledge to arrive at new ideas for solving pressing problems. We work to promote and protect core elements of a happy human life: clean air and water, healthy and sustainable food, meaningful connections with one another and with the natural world that surrounds us, and institutions from the marketplace to the government that support flourishing communities. And we strive to point out the opportunities afforded by a moment when profound change is both more possible and more urgently needed than ever.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,987,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.4M to $6.0M (+35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy Floyd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $73k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 50% · 2019 71% · 2020 87% · 2021 57% · 2022 84% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Explore Booksellers LLC · disregarded
- Arizona Pirg Education Fund Inc · exempt
- California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc · exempt
- Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc · exempt
- Environment California Research & Policy Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC?
- CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,762,500 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($2,481,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $6,762,500 in grants to CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC?
- ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,481,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing