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NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC

NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,772 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$198k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$543k
Net assets
$629k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Educ Fund Inc does

Mission

The purpose for which this corporation is organized is: To act on behalf of the public interest by means of charitable, educational, or any other activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Within these general purposes, the specific purposes include research and public education in the following areas: consumer protection, health and safety, environmental protection and preservation, energy policy and transportation, promotion of democratic processes, corporate and governmental accountability, and other issues of concern to the people of North Carolina and elsewhere.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Researching and influencing public policy: staff engage in non-legislative activities including research, education, and policy development to stop the pollution of single-use plastics, promote consumer protection by strengthening regulations around product safety and working to give citizens the right to repair their own devices.

    $46,872 spent
    67% of program spending

  2. Public education & outreach: recruiting volunteers, distributing educational literature, conducting surveys and discussing issues with the public to stop the pollution from single-use plastics, promote consumer protection around product safety and working to give citizens the right to repair their own devices.

    $23,466 spent
    33% of program spending

  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,338.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($427k)2022 Revenue 62 ($219k) Expenses 88 ($145k) Net assets 114 ($489k)2023 Revenue 34 ($120k) Expenses 94 ($154k) Net assets 112 ($478k)2024 Revenue 31 ($111k) Expenses 68 ($111k) Net assets 119 ($510k)2025 Revenue 56 ($198k) Expenses 66 ($108k) Net assets 147 ($629k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (56)Expenses (66)Net assets (147)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $592k to $721k (+22%).

$517k
$630k
$576k
$592k
$721k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$190k
’21
$74k
’22
−$33k
’23
−$773
’24
$90k
’25
31
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed44443
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $213k → $43k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
'25*
total
Student Organizing Incunclassified
$131k
Blueprint North Carolinaunclassified
$94k
Democracy North Carolinaunclassified
$75k
Civic Nationunclassified
$10k
funders
4
2
2
2
4
2
1

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND 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

NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC.

38%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 65% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 46% · 2023 53% — 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

51% of NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MA
NC
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC 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 North Carolina

North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby Inc95%Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center Inc82%North Carolina League of Conservation Voters80%NC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections)79%North Carolina Environmental Justice Network79%North Carolina For The People79%Progress North Carolina Action78%Toxic Free North Carolina Inc78%

Nationally

North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby Inc95%New Mexico Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc93%Maryland Public Interest Research Foundation Inc87%Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Inc86%Copirg Citizen Lobby Inc84%Illinois State Public Interest Research Group Inc84%Illinois Pirg Education Fund Inc84%United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc84%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 34%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Part of a family of 21 related entities

  • Bold 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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC?
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,772 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $542,772 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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