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CALIFORNIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP

EIN 94-2559710 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,582,419
Expenses 2024
$858,114

Program services were 57.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
1129 STATE ST STE 10B

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DOUG PHELPS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIA PETERS

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL RUSSO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE BLACKLEDGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $117,061
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $98,125
    Other
    $18,936
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • EMILY RUSCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $4,338
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $4,171
    Other
    $167
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related

  • ELIZABETH RIDLINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAT LOCKWOOD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENN ENGSTROM

    STATE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $85,413
    From this org
    $74,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,986
    Hours/week
    20

  • EMILY KELLY-FISCHER

    FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,582,419
    Expenses
    $858,114
    Contributions
    $1,470,750
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,374,701
    Expenses
    $1,331,845
    Contributions
    $1,348,030
    Grants paid
    $500,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,450,595
    Expenses
    $901,457
    Contributions
    $1,450,595
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Grants made

  • USPIRG

    $500,000

    2023 GENERAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.