Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,280 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($71,976). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Massachusetts Student Public Interest Research Group Inc does
Mission
To provide research and advocacy on social issues affecting the welfare of citizens of the commonwealth of massachusetts, and to organize college student chapters in order to investigate and pursue solutions to these issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campus program - this project is an educational program for students on 10 college campuses in massachusetts during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025. Students engage in various research, advocacy, education, and community service projects related to consumer, environmental, and energy issues. Staff members on the various campuses help train students and facilitate the student projects. These projects provide opportunities to over 100,000 students.
$389,816 spent70% of program spendingGeneral program activity - this project involves general research, advocacy, educational activities, and student lobbying on the following issues: consumer protection, toxics and toxic use reduction, clean air, clean water, solid waste, recycling and packaging, hunger and homelessness, and environmental preservation.
$167,064 spentof which $117,220 as grants30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $556,880.
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.
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 $5.7M to $6.2M (+8%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Janet Domenitz
Executive director
Board chair
Daniel Hochberger
Chair/director (through 12/5/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $80k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP 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
MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 73% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
86% of MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP 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 MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,280 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($71,976). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $152,280 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- STUDENT ORGANIZING INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MASSACHUSETTS STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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