Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC
WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,220 to it, the largest being Wisconsin Voices Inc ($17,720). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,762 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,762 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- United Methodist Children's Services of Wisconsin Incshared funders
- 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of WISCONSIN 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
WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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 WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 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
65% of WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin 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.
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.
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Methodist Children's Services of Wisconsin Incshared fundersWI · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Student Organizing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Wisconsin Acts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environment America Research and Policy Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Bankers Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Together Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Infrastructure Investment Now Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Intl Union of Operating Engin Local 139portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rusinow Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americans for Financial Reform Education Fundshared fundersDC · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
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 WISCONSIN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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 WISCONSIN 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 WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,220 to it, the largest being Wisconsin Voices Inc ($17,720). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,220 in grants to WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC?
- Wisconsin Voices Inc is the largest funder on record, with $17,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN 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 Wisconsin. 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 2funders 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