Skip to content

Massachusetts · Nonprofit

ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER

ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,678 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($310,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$163k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$575k
Net assets
$0
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Environmental Massachusetts Research and Policy Center does

Mission

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

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research, analyze and educate the public about and pursue solutions to problems of environmental preservation and other issues affecting the social welfare of the people of Massachusetts.

    $28,473 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,473.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($708k)2021 Revenue 53 ($68k) Expenses 46 ($29k) Net assets 106 ($747k)2022 Revenue 123 ($159k) Expenses 53 ($34k) Net assets 123 ($873k)2023 Revenue 50 ($65k) Expenses 127 ($81k) Net assets 121 ($858k)2024 Revenue 126 ($163k) Expenses 96 ($61k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (126)Expenses (96)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $0 (−100%).

$821k
$835k
$980k
$1.0M
$0
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’20
$39k
’21
$126k
’22
−$15k
’23
$102k
’24
153
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed66685
Joined·+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $137k → $21k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Toxics Action Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER raised.

From the IRS filings of ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER’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

ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER.

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 74% · 2019 28% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 81% · 2023 100% — 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 ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

MA
IA
CO
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

47% of spending goes to programs.

Program 47%Management 45%Fundraising 8%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 26 related entities

  • Arizona PIRG Education Fund Inc · exempt
  • California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc · exempt
  • Center for Public Interest Research Inc · exempt
  • Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER?
ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,678 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($310,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $574,678 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER?
ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $310,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL MASSACHUSETTS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER 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.

Play a game about who funds Environmental Massachusetts Research and Policy Center →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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