New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,497,629 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($1,620,530). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc does
Mission
The new york public interest research group fund nypirg is a non-partisan, nonprofit, research and public education organization dedicated to enhancing the public voice in critical public policy debates in order to strengthen democracy, enhance the rights of consumers and voters, and protect the environment and public health in new york.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Environment: public education and engagement in support of policies that hold polluters responsible for their role in the creating climate crisis, halt fossil fuel infrastructure development, and take bold measures to address the climate crisis. In addition, released reports and analyses documenting the cost of climate mitigation in new york. Nypirg also educated new yorkers about drinking water threats, including offering a web-based service for all residents to identify contaminants found in water sources across the state, solid waste issues in new york state, including recycling and packaging policies, and expanding mass transit.
$3,515,295 spent82% of program spendingDemocracy and good government: nypirg helped to register voters across the state. In addition, educated voters and would be voters about policies that make it as easy as possible for new yorkers to register and cast their vote, modernize its voting systems, and better monitor the influences of interest groups in state policymaking. In addition, offered a web-based service for residents to look up and get information about their elected representatives. Nypirg also hosted the donald k. Ross future leaders program, a civic policy internship program in albany for college students.
$354,602 spent$22,467 earned by the program8% of program spendingConsumer rights: helping to protect consumers and to offset their costs. For more than 40 years, nypirg has offered counseling to consumers with personal issues and complaints, which include landlord/tenant issues, the purchase of shoddy goods or services, or falling victim to deceptive business practices. This service is free of charge and is not a legal service. In addition, consumers can band together to benefit from collective negotiation for home heating process through nypirg.
$278,860 spent6% of program spendingHealth and patient safety nypirg educated the public and policymakers about healthcare policies and medical debt, including hosting a series of statewide educational workshops on medical debt. Higher education: nypirg is working to hold the line on college costs to students. Nypirg developed research and analysis documenting the need to limit the increases in public college tuition, expand the states tuition assistance program, and ensure that programs that provide assistance to needy students, including child care, are adequaltely supported.
$163,652 spentof which $65,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,312,409.
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 $1.5M to $2.6M (+69%).
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 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $674k → $997k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
89% 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 YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 84% · 2019 53% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 19% · 2023 28% — 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
59% of NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
78% of NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ny Public Interest Research Group Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND 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 YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC?
- NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,497,629 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($1,620,530). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $5,497,629 in grants to NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC?
- SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,620,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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