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CIVIL SOCIETY INSTITUTE INC

EIN 04-3272715 WOBURN, MA

Revenue 2024
$413,467
Expenses 2024
$708,535

Program services were 76.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q200
Classification
2000
Street
CO STANTON CO 400 WEST CUMMINGS

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 · 2024

Mission

THE INSTITUTE WAS FOUNDED WITH A MISSION TO SUPPORT THE SECTORS OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY AT THE LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS BY PROMOTING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS, HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS, AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY. THE INSTITUTE PROMOTES INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SEVERAL PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE THE ROLE OF A CIVIL SOCIETY

  • THE ORGANIZATION FOCUSES ON RESEARCH, WRITING AND EDUCATION ON ISSUES HAVING TO DO WITH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ON PUBLIC OPINION ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, LEADERSHIP AND PROBLEM SOLVING. ALSO, WATER POLICIES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY CONTINUE TO BE AREAS OF RESEARCH AND WRITING. TO ACCOMPLISH THESE OBJECTIVES, IN ADDITION TO OTHER OPERATING COSTS, THE ORGANIZATION MADE GRANTS TO 3 ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $541,722 · Grants $167,331

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Frank Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Van Rens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pam Solo

    PRESIDENT & EXEC. DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $251,262
    From this org
    $220,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,262
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $220,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $26,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,862
    Filer's total
    $251,262

  • Gail Pressberg

    TREASURER/CLERK/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $413,467
    Expenses
    $708,535
    Contributions
    $357,200
    Grants paid
    $167,331
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $409,988
    Expenses
    $747,862
    Contributions
    $339,742
    Grants paid
    $143,310
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $315,927
    Expenses
    $719,959
    Contributions
    $277,400
    Grants paid
    $97,000

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
    $385,514
    Expenses
    $879,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,134,667

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,763
    Expenses
    $882,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,503,744

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $761,294
    Expenses
    $1,044,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,148,393

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $815,083
    Expenses
    $1,870,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,695,607

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $814,016
    Expenses
    $1,734,756
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,106,421

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $113,168
    Expenses
    $1,638,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,438,095

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,971,767
    Expenses
    $3,600,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,782,619

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,940,739
    Expenses
    $5,445,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,626,551

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,158,308
    Expenses
    $4,440,057
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,553,207

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,931,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,573,449

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

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.