New York · Nonprofit
CONSUMER REPORTS INC
CONSUMER REPORTS INC (New York) receives grants from 219 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,925,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,620,498). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $267M
- Funders on record
- 219
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $331M
What Consumer Reports Inc does
Mission
We are an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Consumer information, product information: see schedule o foradditional information.
$197,517,446 spentof which $11,500 as grants$208,122,826 earned by the program94% of program spendingEducation programs, health information and safety: seeschedule o for additional information.
$12,220,833 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,738,279.
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 2020 to 2021, from $399M to $503M (+26%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of CONSUMER REPORTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (0% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.5M.
24 of 219 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CONSUMER REPORTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 219 funders by total. 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
CONSUMER REPORTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 CONSUMER REPORTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 19% · 2019 75% · 2020 33% · 2021 17% · 2022 55% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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 CONSUMER REPORTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
CONSUMER REPORTS INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
CONSUMER REPORTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 25 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 25 public benefit nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CONSUMER REPORTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record — $31k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Transportation$31k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1k
- FEDERAL$182
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONSUMER REPORTS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSUMER REPORTS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC?
- CONSUMER REPORTS INC (New York) receives grants from 219 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,925,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,620,498). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSUMER REPORTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 219 organizations giving $31,925,561 in grants to CONSUMER REPORTS INC, 111 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSUMER REPORTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,620,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSUMER REPORTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 219 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing