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MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC

EIN 04-2536325 BOSTON, MA

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Revenue 2023
$2,301,525
Expenses 2023
$1,764,300

Program services were 66.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3100
Street
294 WASHINGTON ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

8 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

OUR TEAM OF RESEARCHERS UNCOVERS THE FACTS; OUR STAFF BRINGS OUR FINDINGS TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH MEDIA AS WELL AS ONE-ON-ONE INTERACTIONS; AND OUR ADVOCATES BRING THE VOICE OF THE PUBLIC TO THE HALLS OF POWER ON BEHALF OF CONSUMERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

MASSPIRG IS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST. WHEN CONSUMERS ARE CHEATED OR THE VOICES OF ORDINARY CITIZENS ARE DROWNED OUT BY SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBYISTS, MASSPIRG SPEAKS UP AND TAKES ACTION. WE UNCOVER THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AND FIGHT TO END THEM USING THE TIME-TESTED TOOLS OF INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH, MEDIA EXPOSES, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY AND LITIGATION. MASSPIRG'S MISSION IS TO DELIVER PERSISTENT, RESULTS-ORIENTED PUBLIC INTEREST ACTIVISM THAT PROTECTS CONSUMERS, ENCOURAGES A FAIR, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY, AND FOSTERS A RESPONSIVE, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT.

  • GENERAL PROGRAM: THIS PROJECT INVOLVES GENERAL RESEARCH, ADVOCACY, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND LOBBYING ON THE FOLLOWING ISSUES: CONSUMER PROTECTION, TOXICS AND TOXIC USE REDUCTION, ENERGY POLICY LEGISLATION; UTILITY REFORM, STUDENT RIGHTS LEGISLATION, GOOD GOVERNMENT/DEMOCRACY, RECYCLING AND ZERO WASTE, AND CLEAN WATER.

    Expenses $437,716 · Revenue $257,177

  • MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION AND SERVICES: THIS PROGRAM ENTAILS DISTRIBUTING THE MASSPIRG NEWSLETTER THREE TIMES A YEAR AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO MEMBERS OF MASSPIRG TO KEEP THEM INFORMED ON CONSUMER, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY, AND OTHER PUBLIC INTEREST ISSUES.

    Expenses $736,108 · Revenue $449,573

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.

  • Deirdre Cummings

    TREASURER/CLERK

    Total calculated
    $47,833
    From this org
    $43,136
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,697
    Hours/week
    20

  • Richard Hannigan

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Andrew MacDonald

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Douglas Phelps

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeff Sprague

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Janet Domenitz

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,881
    From this org
    $79,166
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,715
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $2,301,525
    Expenses
    $1,764,300
    Contributions
    $1,519,296
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,019,265
    Expenses
    $1,433,153
    Contributions
    $1,436,853
    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
    $2,136,063
    Expenses
    $1,188,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,250,905

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,429
    Expenses
    $1,073,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,208,986

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,803,261
    Expenses
    $1,340,750
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,526,696

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,724,634
    Expenses
    $1,220,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,752,702

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,728,767
    Expenses
    $1,254,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,413,201

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,737,322
    Expenses
    $1,306,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,080,460

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,713,760
    Expenses
    $1,117,086
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,680,700

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,653,391
    Expenses
    $1,171,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,998,434

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,812,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,688,173

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,295,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,222,474

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

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 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

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 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.