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THE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC

EIN 13-3859811 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2023
$809,162
Expenses 2023
$823,878

Program services were 68.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E99Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 8536

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

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO EDUCATE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR LEGAL REFORM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE AND PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR LEGAL REFORM.

  • THE INSTITUTE HAS PERFORMED RESEARCH AND ANALYSES REGARDING GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL REFORM. THE INSTITUTE HAS ALSO CONDUCTED OUTREACH ACTIVITIES IN THESE AREAS.

    Expenses $562,863

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.

  • Matthew Brown

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $116,800
    From this org
    $111,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,800
    Hours/week
    40

  • Philip K Howard

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $88,000
    From this org
    $88,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Anthony Cm Kiser

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott F Smith

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alan Siegel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James P O'Shaughnessy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Messervey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence J Mone

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Park

    DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $117,463
    From this org
    $100,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,963
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $809,162
    Expenses
    $823,878
    Contributions
    $809,162
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $713,914
    Expenses
    $894,010
    Contributions
    $713,914
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,016,420
    Expenses
    $757,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,082

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $707,993
    Expenses
    $716,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,528

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $618,253
    Expenses
    $940,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $161,607

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $467,071
    Expenses
    $962,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $387,474

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,162,754
    Expenses
    $1,073,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $775,396

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,561,918
    Expenses
    $1,078,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $693,240

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,068,245
    Expenses
    $1,016,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,898

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $866,588
    Expenses
    $1,026,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,196

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,175,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $313,487

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,220,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $518,330

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.