Colorado · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,903,670 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($515,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes as allowed by section 501c3 of the internal revenue code, including, for such purposes, identifying, researching, analyzing, and pursuing solutions to problems of consumer protection, environmental preservation, corporate and governmental responsibility to the public, discrimination, and other issues affecting the social welfare of the people of the united states and to cooperate with other citizen action groups that qualify as exempt under section 501c3 of the internal revenue code concerning problems of common concern to people throughout the united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New economy, financial reform, transforming transportation - through public education, research, grassroots organizing and media work, we're working to tackle concrete problems that will put us on a path to a better future. We've successfully promoted changes that have resulted in giving consumers the right to repair their own devices, greater accountability in government and cleaner transportation options.
$1,058,321 spentof which $628,000 as grants67% of program spendingConsumer protection and public health - for more than 40 years, us pirg education fund has been educating consumers about how to protect themselves and their rights. We conduct independent testing and research to expose hazards in everyday products and work to educate consumers about them.
$517,430 spent33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,575,751.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.4M to $7.5M (+17%).
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.
95% of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Janet Domenitz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $176k → $1.1M.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $777k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Green Corps Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
94% 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 UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 57% · 2019 27% · 2020 34% · 2021 51% · 2022 23% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
13% of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- 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
- Environment California Research and Policy Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND 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 UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC?
- UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC (Colorado) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,903,670 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ($515,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,903,670 in grants to UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC?
- ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing