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Progress Michigan Education Inc

Progress Michigan Education is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that promotes solutions for michigan through independent research, public education and the use of new media and internet outreach campaigns.

$15k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$14,884
Largest grant, FY2022
$14,884
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Progress Michigan Education Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Civil RightsEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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
FY20221$15k100%
FY20214$3.3M75%
FY20209$434k89%
FY20194$199k100%
FY20172$48kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$2.8MPublic Benefit$729kCivil Rights$197kArts & Culture$115kScience & Tech$41kCommunity Improvement$40kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We the People MI$2,724,929138%
Tides Advocacy$499,25321%
Allied Media Projects Inc$109,00020%
Michigan Peoples Campaign$100,000138%
Michigan Coalition On$84,4111n/a
482 Forward$75,00015%
Detroit Action Commonwealth$75,000199%
Mothering Justice$75,00012%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$45,00010%
Two Peninsulas Research Group$40,5841n/a
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All grantees of Progress Michigan Education Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We the People MI$2,724,929138%
Tides Advocacy$499,25321%
Allied Media Projects Inc$109,00020%
Michigan Peoples Campaign$100,000138%
Michigan Coalition On$84,4111n/a
482 Forward$75,00015%
Detroit Action Commonwealth$75,000199%
Mothering Justice$75,00012%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$45,00010%
Two Peninsulas Research Group$40,5841n/a
Burmese American Initiative Inc$40,00018%
Moses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength)$40,00018%
Actblue Civics Inc$25,00010%
Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc$13,00011%
Michigan Student Power Alliance$7,0001n/a
Kentwood Public Schools$6,0001n/a
St Ignace Visitors Bureau$6,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Progress Michigan Education Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWe the People MI: $2,724,929 over 1y, 38% of budgetTides Advocacy: $499,253 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $109,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMichigan Peoples Campaign: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budget482 Forward: $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDetroit Action Commonwealth: $75,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetMothering Justice: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBurmese American Initiative Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMoses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength): $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetActblue Civics Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSt Ignace Visitors Bureau: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 13.

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.

Tides FoundationCA17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Michigan Civic Action Fund · Michigan Voices · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Progress Michigan Education Inc?

Find your warmest path to Progress Michigan Education 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.

About Progress Michigan Education Inc

How much does Progress Michigan Education Inc give?
Progress Michigan Education Inc reported 1 grants totaling $14,884 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Progress Michigan Education Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (70%), Public Benefit (18%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Progress Michigan Education Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: We the People MI ($2.7M), Tides Advocacy ($499k), Allied Media Projects Inc ($109k).
Does Progress Michigan Education Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Progress Michigan Education Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, The Skillman Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Progress Michigan Education Inc based?
Progress Michigan Education Inc is based in MI.

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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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