Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP
WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,444 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($54,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Washington Public Interest Research Group does
Mission
Washington pirg students is an independent statewide student organization that works on issues like environmental protection, consumer protection, hunger, and homelessness. For nearly 35 years, students through their campus pirg chapters have been making a real difference in people's lives and winning concrete changes for a better world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Researching and influencing public policy: staff engage in non-legislative activities including research, education, legal and policy development on the following issues: student debt, voter registration, textbooks and poverty.
$47,807 spent70% of program spendingPublic education and outreach services: staff recruits volunteers, distributes educational literature, conducts surveys and discusses educational issues surrounding the following issues: student debt, voter registration, textbooks, and poverty.
$20,489 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,296.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $257k to $163k (−36%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP’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
WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
100% 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 WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 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
WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 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.
Organizations like WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP: 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 WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP?
- WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,444 to it, the largest being STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ($54,833). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,444 in grants to WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP?
- STUDENT ORGANIZING INC is the largest funder on record, with $54,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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