Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Inc does
Mission
Pennsylvania public interest group delivers persistent, result oriented public interest activism that protects consumers, encourages a fair and sustainable economy, and fosters a democratic government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public education and outreach: recruiting volunteers, distributing educational literature, conducting surveys and discussing issues with the public to stop the pollution from single-use plastics, protecting consumers from unfair price gouging and working to give citizens the right to repair their own devices.
$20,791 spent81% of program spendingResearching and influencing public policy:staff engage in legislative activities including research, education, and policy development to stop the pollution from single-use plastics, protecting consumers from unfair price gouging and working to give citizens the right to repair their own devices.
$4,781 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,572.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $3.1M to $3.4M (+10%).
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.
96% of PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA 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.
Where its funders are
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Arizona Pirg Inc · exempt
- Bold Alliance Inc · exempt
- California Public Interest Research Group Inc · exempt
- Campus Organizing Support Services Inc · exempt
- Colorado Public Interest Research Group Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA 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 PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA 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 Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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