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OREGON STATE PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP CITIZEN LOBBY

EIN 93-0855897 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2024
$2,046,167
Expenses 2024
$983,607

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3000
Street
1536 SE 11TH AVE STE A

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 PURPOSE OR PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED ARE: (1) TO ENGAGE IN NON-PARTISAN ANALYSIS, STUDY OR RESEARCH OF SUCH ISSUES OF GENERAL PUBLIC INTEREST AS ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION; (2) TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC A FULL AND FAIR EXPOSITION OF THE PERTINENT FACTS AND INDEPENDENT CONCLUSIONS; (3) TO PROMOTE BENEFICIAL SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE STATE OF OREGON.

  • RESEARCHING AND INFLUENCING PUBLIC POLICY: STAFF ENGAGE IN LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES INCLUDING RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT AROUND THE ISSUES OF:-CONSUMER PROTECTION-REINING IN THE HIGH COST OF HEALTH CARE-ADVOCATING FOR ZERO WASTE POLICIES IN OREGON

    Expenses $274,697 · Grants $10,000

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SERVICES: RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS, DISTRIBUTING EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE, CONDUCTING SURVEYS AND DISCUSSING THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WITH THE PUBLIC:-CONSUMER PROTECTION-REINING IN THE HIGH COST OF HEALTH CARE-ADVOCATING FOR ZERO WASTE POLICIES IN OREGON

    Expenses $370,882 · Grants $10,000 · Revenue $48,000

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.

  • TARA CELESTE MEIFFREN-SWANGO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $92,626
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $76,843
    Other
    $15,783
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related

  • RYAN MOECKLY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IVAN FRISHBERG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLIE FISHER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $74,859
    From this org
    $64,101
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,758
    Hours/week
    38

  • ALYSSA BERNARD

    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, 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,046,167
    Expenses
    $983,607
    Contributions
    $1,854,944
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,914,716
    Expenses
    $2,111,308
    Contributions
    $1,814,882
    Grants paid
    $1,000,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,765,250
    Expenses
    $608,045
    Contributions
    $1,751,805
    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
    $1,829,402
    Expenses
    $974,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,416,488

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,526,439
    Expenses
    $551,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,057,556

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,709,131
    Expenses
    $986,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,190,431

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,523,003
    Expenses
    $1,252,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,226,623

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,544,647
    Expenses
    $1,132,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,082,403

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,544,647
    Expenses
    $1,132,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,082,403

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,408,981
    Expenses
    $1,004,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,617,112

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,437,239
    Expenses
    $927,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,968,232

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,393,535
    Expenses
    $1,009,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,833,839

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,346,967
    Expenses
    $987,641
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,283,088

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 2024 return

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

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.