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Center for American Progress

The CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$50MEnvironment$4.4MCrime & Legal$4.4MEducation$4.1MCivil Rights$1.0MEmployment$558kSocial Science$325kPhilanthropy$158kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $241k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.9M
$241,222
Median grant
4
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for American Prog Action Fnd$3,600,000
The Partnership Project$250,000
Center for Earth Energy and Democ$241,222
Coming Clean$30,000
The Cleo Institute$20,000
Foreign Policy for America Foundation$7,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATHWAYS PA: $8k → 10%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMISSION: $25k → 17%HOPE NETWORK: $50k → 11%MOM RISING EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
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OR
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OH
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RI
CA
CO
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60M · 19 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
59

Total granted

$60M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45M · revenue +148% · 62% of their budget
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.7M · revenue +47%
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.7M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RL
    RESOURCES LEGACY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue -5%
  • DF
    DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue ×14
  • TP
    The Partnership Project
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for American Progress

The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…

Civil Rights
2
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
3
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
4
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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5
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
11
Advocates for the Environment Inc

Advocates for the environment is organizaed to educate the public concerning the law and the environment, to provide low-cost legal services to the public and other nonprofit organizations, and to use legal means such as litigation to…

Civil Rights
12
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Progress Florida Education Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Regeneration Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%29%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%76%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr15%7%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,921

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
46/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $44,885,079 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUNDCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $3,682,500 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities+3 more — $112,500 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY — $3,682,500 · Crime & LegalCENTER FO…DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalDEMOCRACY…COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $330,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY…+3 more — $170,000 · Crime & LegalRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $1,750,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY — $1,277,922 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Inc — $850,000 · Environment+11 more — $454,500 · EnvironmentGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $3,682,500 · Education+5 more — $226,805 · EducationNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $515,000 · OtherPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $90,600 · OtherProgress Ohio Education Inc — $75,000 · OtherONE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 · OtherDARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC — $135,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND — $107,500 · Other+32 more — $685,969 · OtherThe Partnership Project — $350,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $100,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE — $93,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER — $85,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS FLORIDA EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $75,000 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $12,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $200,000 · Social ScienceKeystone Research Center Inc — $100,000 · Social ScienceCENTER FOR MIGRATION STUDIES OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · Social Science
Public Benefit$48,680,079Crime & Legal$5,182,500Environment$4,332,422Education$3,909,305Other$1,834,069Civil Rights$840,000Social Science$325,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $44,885,079 over 8y, 62% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $3,682,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $3,682,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY — $3,682,500 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $1,750,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY — $1,277,922 over 5y, 38% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc — $850,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $515,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $330,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC — $135,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCornell University — $119,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $115,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc — $110,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $107,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ROUNDTABLE — $93,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $90,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC — $87,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $85,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER — $85,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetProgress Ohio Education Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetONE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFUND FOR THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $41,600 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGreenLatinos — $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolinians Against Gun Violence Education Fund Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKIND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR MIGRATION STUDIES OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHester Street Collaborative Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Community Self-Help — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAINA MOMONA — $22,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAlliance for A Better Georgia Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ADMINISTRATORS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…United States Energy …Tides FoundationHopewell FundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Ford FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Tides CenterThe Partnership Proje…Annie E Casey Foundat…Environmental Defense…
New Venture FundDC39.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Tides Center · The Partnership Project Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Center for American Progress funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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