Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND
RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,041 to it, the largest being POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND INC ($760,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $30k
What Research Support Fund does
Mission
Research Support Fund's mission is to support the political economy research institute (peri) at the universtity of massachusetts amherst and its research and public education on matters of economic, social and public policy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Support the political economy research institute's (peri) at the university of massachusetts amherst research, education and outreach programs on issues of political economy.
$253,456 spentof which $180,000 as grants$6,588 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $253,456.
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 $6.3M to $12k (−100%).
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.
100% of RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Robert Pollin
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $760k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND’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
RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
37% 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 RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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
RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Political Economy Research Institute · exempt
- Peri Support Fund Inc · exempt
- Umass Amherst · exempt
- Umass Foundation · exempt
- Pear LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND: 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 RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND?
- RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,041 to it, the largest being POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND INC ($760,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,206,041 in grants to RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND?
- POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND 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.
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 2 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