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Progress Georgia Inc

Progress Georgia partners with grassroots activists, advocates, and community organizers by using innovative media strategy and digital tools to uplift the voices of people and communities across Georgia to support them in the fight for a better Georgia.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.6MCivil Rights$225kEnvironment$85k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$962k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLAHR Action Network$40,000
Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for$40,000
Georgia League of Conservation Vote$40,000
Georgia Equality$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Black Male Voter Project: $75k → 14%Georgia Safe and Strong Inc: $1.9M → 8%AAAF Independent Committee: $25k → 9%Georgia NAACP: $25k → 13%Georgia Equality: $40k → 14%Acronym: $135k → 14%Georgia Safe and Strong PAC: $200k → 8%Georgia Conservation Voters Inc: $20k → 13%Georgia Equality PAC: $25k → 14%Faith in Public Life Action Fund: $20k → 14%American Civil Liberties Fd: $25k → 13%GLAHR Action Network: $40k → 14%GLAHR Action Network: $40k → 13%New Georgia Project Action Fund: $150k → 14%Georgia Conservation Voters: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 4 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +239% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$470k
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+239%
0%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GLAHR ACTION NETWORK
    2× · 2021–2024 · $240k · revenue +808% · 77% of their budget
  • GL
    GEORGIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +128%
  • GI
    GALEO IMPACT FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • GS
    Georgia Safe and Strong Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1.9M
  • NG
    NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • A
    ACRONYM
    one grant, 2021 · $135k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Georgia Muslim Voter Project

Georgia Muslim Voter Project(GAMVP)works to strengthen civic participation among Muslims in Georgia via nonpartisan voter engagement,advocacy&grassroots organizing.We strive to increase community presence,develop leadership and ensure…

Civil Rights
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia Inc

The aclu of georgia is dedicated to preserving the civil liberties enshrined in the u.s. constitution and bill of rights. through litigation, lobbying, and communications, the aclu of georgia works to preserve and enhance the rights of all…

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3
Alliance for a Better Georgia Inc

To increase voting and civic engagement in the State of Georgia.

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4
Transforming Georgia Inc

Transforming Georgia, Inc. is organized to make an indelible impact on the lives of Georgians through fighting for voting rights, supporting legislative solutions, programs and other proactive efforts to transform our communities.

Civil Rights
5
Competitive Georgia Inc

Competitive Georgia is dedicated to fostering a balanced, fair, and predictable legal environment in Georgia through tort reform that curbs frivolous lawsuits, stabilizes insurance costs, and promotes economic growth while preserving…

Public Benefit
6
Georgia for All Inc

Providing education of the public on local and national issues, in order to combat misinformation, through targeted digital marketing, based on data, and community engagement.

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7
Latino Community Fund Inc

The Organization supports Latino-serving and Latino-led nonprofit organization and the Latinx community as a whole in Georgia. This support includes advocacy work, program development, technical assistance, grant making, and more. Our…

Philanthropy
8
American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations Georgia S

To promote the rights of workers and have representation before management.

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9
Fair Fight Action Inc

Fair fight action promotes fair elections in georgia and around the country, encourages voter participation in elections, educates voters about elections and their voting rights, and advocates for progressive issues.

Education
10
Greater Georgia Action Inc

Greater georgia action, inc., ("the organization") works to register, educate, and mobilize more eligible voters in communities across the peach state.

Civil Rights
11
Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc
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12
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc

The Georgia Investor Action Fund utilizes organizing, messaging and leadership development strategies to impact policy issues in Georgia.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is Acronym. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Georgia Safe and Strong Inc: $1,913,049 · OtherGeorgia Safe and Strong IncNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $150,000 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUNDACRONYM: $135,000 · OtherGEORGIA EQUALITY INC: $105,000 · Other+6 more: $315,000 · Other+6 moreGLAHR ACTION NETWORK: $240,100 · Civil RightsGLAHR ACTION…ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERIC…ACLU FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDAT…FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN PUB…Future Georgia Inc DBA Georgia Values Action: $20,000 · Civil RightsFuture Georg…
Other$2,618,049Civil Rights$330,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLAHR ACTION NETWORK: $240,100 over 2y, 77% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGEORGIA EQUALITY INC: $105,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGEORGIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $85,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGALEO IMPACT FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFuture Georgia Inc DBA Georgia Values Action: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Georgia Investor Acti…America VotesSixteen Thirty FundTides FoundationAll Hands on Deck Net…NEO Philanthropy Acti…Open Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyFair Fight Action IncMarch OnWomen Donors Network …Working Families Orga…
Georgia Investor Action Fund IncGA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Fair Fight Action Inc · March On · Women Donors Network Action · Working Families Organization Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Progress Georgia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Progress Georgia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Progress Georgia Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Progress Georgia Inc 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.

    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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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