United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521384240
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 2025469707
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,064,867
- Expenses
- $2,241,550
- Assets
- $7,737,179
- Liabilities
- $1,560,827
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FAYE PARK (PRESIDENT AND VICE CHAIR)
Highest reported compensation
- FAYE PARK (PRESIDENT AND VICE CHAIR): $19,572 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2024
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.45; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 70.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 6 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $313K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 24 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.