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Glaser Progress Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$545k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$275,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Glaser Progress Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20239$545k56%
FY20223$205k0%
FY20216$344k50%
FY20206$291k50%
FY20197$355k43%
FY20186$305k50%
FY201713$448kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Public Benefit$1.1MHealth$640kEnvironment$435kPhilanthropy$274kArts & Culture$81kInternational$45kEducation$26kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($331k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Glaser Progress Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $598,815 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $401,652 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe News Literacy Project Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $251,587 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIndivisible Civics: $158,508 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $105,445 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVitalogy Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund: $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCapital & Main: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $23,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairvote: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMariners Care: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResources Legacy Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown Hall Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Glaser Progress Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Glaser Progress Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Glaser Progress Foundation

How much does Glaser Progress Foundation give?
Glaser Progress Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $545,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Glaser Progress Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (42%), Health (24%), Environment (16%).
Who are Glaser Progress Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($599k), Democracy Now Productions Inc ($402k), The News Literacy Project Inc ($300k).
Does Glaser Progress Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Glaser Progress Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Glaser Progress Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Seattle Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
Where is Glaser Progress Foundation based?
Glaser Progress Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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