Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,353 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $-203268
What Product Stewardship Institute Inc does
Mission
The Product Stewardship Institute is a policy expert and consulting nonprofit that powers the emerging circular economy to ensure products are responsibly managed from design to end of life. In 2000, PSI pioneered extended producer responsibility (EPR) in the United States by convening diverse stakeholders to build EPR policies and programs. Drawing on global best practices and expansive multinational relationships, our facilitated dialogues, policy models, research, education, and expert testimony have helped enact 150 EPR laws in 34 states and the District of Columbia across 22 product categories, including packaging. Our members include state and local governments in 48 states, and we partner with more than 120 businesses, academic institutions, environmental nonprofits, and international and tribal governments. Together, we advance scalable solutions that protect people and the planet. Join us at www.productstewardship.us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PSI staff, board directors, members, and partners continued to advance EPR programs in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. PSI staff provided technical support, facilitated stakeholder engagement, mediated policy discussions, conducted research, and provided expert testimony that kept our team at the forefront of policy development, capacity building, and education. The results include the enactment of 4 new battery EPR laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Nebraska, and New York, and 2 new packaging EPR laws in Maryland and Washington. PACKAGING: PSI continued to serve as facilitator for the Colorado packaging EPR advisory board, ensuring that all stakeholder groups have ongoing input into the program; in fiscal year 2025 the focus was review and recommendation on the PRO's program plan and an individual program plan. Additionally, PSI launched the Packaging EPR Harmonization Task Force, which convened about 75 stakeholders including producers, regulators, industry associations and the PRO in discussions to develop a model for key elements of packaging EPR that can help make laws more consistent from state to state. In other efforts to help producers navigate compliance with packaging…
$770,153 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,153.
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 2021 to 2022, from $293k to $160k (−45%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Scott Cassel
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $56k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE 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
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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
62% of PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $520k federal, $575k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$361k
- Department of Agriculture$158k
- NJ$254k
- MA$92k
- OR$91k
- CT$75k
- VT$44k
- OK$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE 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 PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC?
- PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,353 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $109,353 in grants to PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE 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.
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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 6 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