Colorado · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,703,500 to it, the largest being Washington State Public Interest Research Group Inc ($1,550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- 128 Collective Initiatives Incshared funders
- Student Organizing Incportfolio match
- United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $20k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for the Public Interest Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED STATES 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.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 38% · 2021 52% · 2022 60% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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 INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- 128 Collective Initiatives Incshared fundersCA · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Student Organizing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environment America Research and Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Searle Freedom Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patientrightsadvocateorg Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William B Wiener Jr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Constitutional Governmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bipartisan Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chase Foundation of Virginiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
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 UNITED STATES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,703,500 to it, the largest being Washington State Public Interest Research Group Inc ($1,550,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $7,703,500 in grants to UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- Washington State Public Interest Research Group Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES 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 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 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing