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Student Organizing
Student Organizing, Inc. is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) voter mobilization and registration group aligned with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), the Massachusetts state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG).
At-A-Glance
Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Education Policy
President:
Andre DeLattre
Location: Boston, MA View on map
Tax ID: 26-2486476
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $1,018,144 Revenue: $621,750 Expenses: $862,975
Student Organizing, Inc. is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) voter mobilization and registration group aligned with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), the Massachusetts state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG).
Financial Statistics
Total Assets
Total Revenue
Total Expenses
| Year | Total Assets | Total Revenue | Total Expenses | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,018,144 | $621,750 | $862,975 | View |
| 2024 | $1,712,368 | $756,655 | $912,561 | View |
| 2023 | $1,982,879 | $1,218,639 | $863,847 | View |
| 2022 | $1,198,470 | $520,944 | $583,704 | View |
| 2021 | $1,195,626 | $1,209,326 | $1,149,846 | View |
| 2020 | $613,458 | $261,433 | $563,129 | View |
Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Revenue Detail
Expenses Detail
Employee Compensation
Highest Earning Employees
| Employee | Title | Total Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Lindstrom | SECRETARY | $31,669 |
Grant Activity
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $5,041,972
- Number of Grants: 71
- Number of Funders: 32
Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $400,000 | 2024 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | for promoting faculty adoption of OER |
| $390,000 | 2020 | TIDES FOUNDATION | HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES |
| $368,845 | 2020 | Voter Registration Project | VOTER REGISTRATION |
| $250,000 | 2021 | Lumina Foundation for Education Inc | To support Student PIRG state and federal advocacy efforts |
| $200,000 | 2023 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | FOR PROMOTING FACULTY ADOPTION OF OER |
| $200,000 | 2022 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | FOR PROMOTING FACULTY ADOPTION OF OER |
| $200,000 | 2021 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | FOR PROMOTING FACULTY ADOPTION OF OPEN TEXTBOOKS AND OER |
| $200,000 | 2020 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | FOR PROMOTING FACULTY ADOPTION OF OPEN TEXTBOOKS AND OER |
| $150,000 | 2023 | Lumina Foundation for Education Inc | To support Student PIRGs' training, education, and federal advocacy efforts. |
| $144,540 | 2021 | Pirg New Voters Project Inc | charitable, educational |
| $100,000 | 2024 | ALLEGANY FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC | Engaging Young People in Climate Action and the 2024 Elections |
| $100,000 | 2024 | Park Foundation | GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT |
| $100,000 | 2021 | United States Energy Foundation | TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO BUILD A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE. |
| $90,000 | 2020 | Paul M Angell Family Foundation | The use of plastic products presents multiple problems for our environment. The continued extraction of oil used to create plastic contributes to climate change, and plastic waste, from single-use plastic bags and disposable containers to drinking straws, pollute our precious oceans. As the issue has heated up over the years, we’re learning even more about the dangerous impacts of our plastic addiction. Communities in the Ohio Valley and Gulf Coast have experienced serious health impacts from petrochemical leaks and explosions, and the industry is investing in even more ethane crackers and seeking to expand their profits from plastics. Studies are finding alarming amounts of microplastics in people all around the world with unknown long term health impacts. Meanwhile, China has stopped taking our contaminated recyclables, tanking the recycling rate of plastics even more and flooding southeast Asian countries with trash. If the petrochemical industry builds the number of new plastic plastic production plants they’re currently planning, we’ll be locked into a single-use plastic future for decades to come. It is critical for us to take action now towards a plastic free future. College students have a large role to play in the fight to end plastic pollution. For decades, students have been at the forefront of the environmental movement—from Earth Day and fighting back against toxic products to helping win the California bag ban. The Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) focus on the big challenges facing our society. Through their determination, energy, and drive, students working with their PIRG chapters can—and have—helped to win huge victories for our planet and our future. Created on college campuses 45 years ago, we have built the nation’s most effective youth civic engagement network, consisting of 501(C)(3) and 501(C)(4) student-directed and funded organizations on more than 37 college campuses in eight states, more than 50 professional organizing and policy staff, 300,000 dues-paying student members, and 5,000 volunteers annually (with 1,500 students taking on significant leadership responsibilities). The Student PIRGs have taken on national leadership in the U.S. Break Free From Plastics Movement and helped craft the threefold movement strategy which we have adopted internally: 1. Shift demand to disincentivize single-use plastics production: We need to demonstrate to major plastics purchasers that single-use plastic is bad business. By doing so, we’ll disincentivize the oil and gas industry from putting their proverbial nest egg in plastic production by showing that it is not economically viable. Tactically, this means we’re working with the movement to expand producer responsibility, get institutions and corporations to stop purchasing single-use plastics, and to change consumer culture towards one of reuse, while our 501(C)(4) affiliates work to pass bills that ban single-use plastic. |
| $75,000 | 2024 | United States Energy Foundation | TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO BUILD A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE. |
| $50,000 | 2024 | Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation | CIVIC ENGAGEMENT |
| $50,000 | 2023 | ALLEGANY FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC | General Operating Support: Engaging Florida College and University Students in Climate Solutions |
| $50,000 | 2023 | Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation | CIVIC ENGAGEMENT |
| $50,000 | 2023 | The Partnership Project Inc | Program Support |
| $50,000 | 2022 | Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION |
| $50,000 | 2021 | Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | For grant recipient's exempt purposes |
| $50,000 | 2020 | Foundation for Civic Leadership Inc | Project support |
| $50,000 | 2020 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING |
| $40,000 | 2023 | Paul M Angell Family Foundation | On single-use plastics, the Student PIRGs will continue to work with the U.S. Break Free From Plastics Movement's State Strategy Coalition and help lead the Youth Working Group. The Student PIRGs remain the only youth-led group working at the national level in the BFFP Coalition. Our threefold strategy is as follows: 1. Shift demand to disincentivize single-use plastics production: We need to demonstrate to major plastics purchasers that single-use plastic is bad business. By doing so, we’ll disincentivize the oil and gas industry from putting their proverbial nest egg in plastic production by showing that it is not economically viable. Tactically, this means we’re working with the movement to expand producer responsibility, get institutions and corporations to stop purchasing single-use plastics, and to change consumer culture towards one of reuse, while our 501(c)(4) affiliates work to pass bills that ban single-use plastic. Note that Student Organizing, Inc. does not engage in legislative lobbying, and no Angell Foundation funds will be used to support lobbying activities. 2. Create models for a zero-waste communities and a circular economy: This cultural moment has moved elected officials in the U.S. to be more open to banning single-use items from straws to plastic bags and some corporations to ditch single-use plastic items as well. Getting rid of individual consumer facing items makes an impact on the problem and provides a launching point for organizing towards the end solution to our plastic problem: a zero waste society driven by a circular economy. As it stands, no cities like this exist, but our work over the last six years has established more than dozen campuses that have already completely removed single-use plastics from their campuses. We'll continue to get campuses to be model communities and elevate the experience of campuses that have taken action so they can be models for others. 3. Organize to stop existing and proposed sites of petrochemical buildout: While the first two strategies are critical to our long term success, we must do what we can to hamper the immediate threat of more infrastructure coming online. This means lawsuits, local organizing to fight permits, and state legislative work to ban fracking and pipelines. On ocean conservation, the Student PIRGs will work with state and national coalition partners to expand and strengthen MPAs and Marine Sanctuaries at the state and national level. We are the only national youth-led group working on 30×30 and in most states, the only youth-led group working at the state level on the issue. |
| $35,000 | 2020 | GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR INCINERATOR ALTERNATIVES | Zero waste communities org work |
All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $1,782,538
- Number of Grants: 38
- Number of Recipients: 18
Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $643,749 | 2021 | Pirg New Voters Project Inc | Program Support |
| $125,000 | 2020 | United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund | Program Support |
| $95,985 | 2020 | Pirg New Voters Project Inc | Program Support |
| $82,505 | 2021 | NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC | Program Support |
| $74,000 | 2024 | California Student Public Interest Research Group | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $56,593 | 2020 | Campus Organizing Support Services | Program Support |
| $47,565 | 2021 | United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund | Program Support |
| $45,000 | 2022 | United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund | Program Support |
| $42,500 | 2022 | MARYLAND PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC | Program Support |
| $40,000 | 2023 | TexPIRG Education Fund | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $35,000 | 2024 | WashPIRG | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $34,000 | 2023 | California Student Public Interest Research Group | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $33,000 | 2024 | Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $31,000 | 2022 | Washington Public Interest Research Group | Program Support |
| $29,943 | 2021 | California Student Public Interest Research Group | Program Support |
| $26,500 | 2023 | WashPIRG | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $26,000 | 2024 | New Jersey Student Public Interest Research Group Inc | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $26,000 | 2023 | OSPIRG (Oregon State Public Interest Research Group) | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $25,279 | 2020 | NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC | Program Support |
| $25,000 | 2024 | Massachusetts Student Public Interest Research Group Inc | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $24,400 | 2022 | California Student Public Interest Research Group | Program Support |
| $21,776 | 2021 | Massachusetts Student Public Interest Research Group Inc | Program Support |
| $17,000 | 2023 | Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, Inc. | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| $16,812 | 2020 | California Student Public Interest Research Group | Program Support |
| $15,888 | 2021 | MARYLAND PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC | Program Support |
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