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PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC

EIN 16-1703662 MONTPELIER, VT

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Revenue 2023
$544,396
Expenses 2023
$610,905

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 942

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE IMPROVES THE WELLBEING OF ALL VERMONTERS AND ADVANCES RACIAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE THROUGH RESEARCH, FISCAL ANALYSIS, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT, AND BY DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING POLICIES THAT STATE GOVERNMENT CAN ENACT.

  • CONDUCT, PRODUCE, AND DISSEMINATE CREDIBLE, TIMELY, RELIABLE, AND ACCESSIBLE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ABOUT STATE-LEVEL BUDGET PRIORITIES, POLICIES, AND TAX AND REVENUE ISSUES, PARTICULARLY THOSE AFFECTING HUMAN SERVICES AND THE WELL-BEING OF LOW INCOME CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. COMMUNICATE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS EFFECTIVELY TO STATE POLICY MAKERS AND THE NEWS MEDIA, DEMONSTRATING A QUICK RESPONSE CAPABILITY ON TAX AND BUDGET ISSUES. REACH OUT TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE TO, AND USE FISCAL INFORMATION AND ANALYSES, WORKING CLOSELY WITH THEM TO ENSURE THAT PUBLIC ASSETS WORK IS RESPONSIVE TO THEIR NEEDS AND INTERESTS. EDUCATE INTEREST GROUPS ABOUT POLICIES THAT BENEFIT LOW-INCOME CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND THE PUBLIC GOOD. WIDELY DISSEMINATE REPORTS, ANALYSIS, EASILY UNDERSTOOD FACT SHEETS, AND THE ISSUE BRIEFS TO APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES. CONDUCT WORKSHOPS AND BRIEFINGS ON SIGNIFICANT BUDGET AND TAX ISSUES.

    Expenses $492,809 · Revenue $8,500

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephanie Yu

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $98,183
    From this org
    $98,183
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Janet Ancel

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ed Paquin

    TREASURER INCOMING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Gold

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gaye Symington

    TREASURER OUTGOING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jared Duval

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $544,396
    Expenses
    $610,905
    Contributions
    $528,575
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $555,832
    Expenses
    $582,610
    Contributions
    $552,299
    Grants paid
    $10,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,196
    Expenses
    $582,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $528,161

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $475,041
    Expenses
    $513,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,614

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $527,742
    Expenses
    $473,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $462,589

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $522,358
    Expenses
    $349,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,649

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,414
    Expenses
    $300,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,550

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,414
    Expenses
    $300,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,550

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $257,708
    Expenses
    $320,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,096

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $281,936
    Expenses
    $332,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,063

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,034
    Expenses
    $251,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,917

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $373,723
    Expenses
    $254,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,594

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.