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NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC

NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,375 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($66,794). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$219k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$101k
Net assets
$2.4M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What New Jersey Student Public Interest Research Group Inc does

Mission

The purposes for which this corporation is formed are to engage in non-partisan analysis, study and research of such issues as urban revitalization, consumer protection, environmental quality, racial and sexual discrimination and similar matters of urgent or long range concern to the general welfare of the people of the state of new jersey; and to make available to the public at all times a full and fair exposition of the pertinent facts and results of such non-partisan analysis, study and research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. New jersey student public interest research group, inc. A/k/a njpirg student chapters ("student chapters") is a non-profit, student directed organization that recruits and trains students to conduct public interest research, educates the campus and local community about civic engagement, and advocates for real solutions. From direct service to the community to advocating for common sense policy solutions, student chapters melds the technical knowhow of university research and classroom education with real world advocacy and hands on experience.

    $159,122 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,122.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($501k) Expenses 100 ($626k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 113 ($566k) Expenses 55 ($347k) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 138 ($693k) Expenses 52 ($323k) Net assets 148 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 142 ($712k) Expenses 76 ($477k) Net assets 168 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 137 ($686k) Expenses 52 ($327k) Net assets 195 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 120 ($603k) Expenses 97 ($609k) Net assets 194 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 120 ($600k) Expenses 133 ($833k) Net assets 175 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 53 ($266k) Expenses 35 ($217k) Net assets 182 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 44 ($219k) Expenses 38 ($238k) Net assets 186 ($2.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (44)Expenses (38)Net assets (186)

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 $2.3M to $2.7M (+17%).

$1.5M
$1.8M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.5M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$125k
’17
$219k
’18
$370k
’19
$235k
’20
$360k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$233k
’23
$49k
’24
−$19k
’25
16
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed121517182827231420
Joined·+10+6+15+21+12+11+4+12
No longer listed·7414111315136
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $37k.

Funder
'20
'21
'24*
'25*
total
$67k
funders
1
2
1
2

From the IRS filings of NEW JERSEY 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

NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 78% — 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.

Where its funders are

NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

MA
CO

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

’20
’21
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP 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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 30%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW JERSEY 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 NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,375 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($66,794). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $101,375 in grants to NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW JERSEY STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
STUDENT ORGANIZING INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW JERSEY 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 New Jersey. 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