Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC
PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,500 to it, the largest being ORCID INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Publishers International Linking Association Inc does
Mission
Crossref's general purpose is to promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and facilitate scholarly research. Crossref's specific mandate is to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form. Crossref is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through crossref digital object identifiers (crossref doi), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited article.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and facilitate scientific and other scholarly research.
$7,970,988 spent$13,068,086 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,970,988.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $23M (+20%).
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.
2% of PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Edward Pentz
Exec dir & a
Board chair
Lisa Schiff
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION 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
PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
59% 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 PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record — $138k federal, $2k state.
- Department of Defense$75k
- Department of Energy$44k
- Department of the Interior$11k
- Department of Agriculture$7k
- Executive Office of the President$344
- FL$2k
- MA$182
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 PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION 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 PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC?
- PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,500 to it, the largest being ORCID INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $182,500 in grants to PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION INC?
- ORCID INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLISHERS INTERNATIONAL LINKING ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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