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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
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$2.8MPublic Benefit$729kCivil Rights$197kArts & Culture$115kScience & Tech$41kCommunity Improvement$40kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$13kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$14,884
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$14,884
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROGRESS GEORGIA: $25k → 8%TIDES ADVOCACY: $469k → 10%CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY: $45k → 20%MICHIGAN COALITION ON: $84k → 8%FRESHWATER FUTURE: $13k → 9%EAST KENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 11%MICHIGAN PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN: $100k → 14%BURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE: $40k → 14%ST IGNACE VISITORS BUREAU: $6k → 14%TWO PENINSULAS RESEARCH GROUP: $41k → 16%METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY: $40k → 21%TIDES ADVOCACY: $30k → 10%DETROIT ACTION COMMONWEALTH: $75k → 21%RISING VOICES (RVAFF): $15k → 10%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: $95k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE MICHIGAN: $2.7M → 21%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: $14k → 21%MI STUDENT POWER ALLIANCE: $7k → 21%MOTHERING JUSTICE: $75k → 21%482 FORWARD: $75k → 21%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.

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 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.

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Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
2
Action for Liberation

Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan

Civil Rights
3
Michigan Jobs Coalition

To promote job retention and creation in the State of Michigan

4
Clean Fuels Michigan

To accelerate the transition to clean transportation in michigan. we advocate for the suite of alternative fuels including biofuels, hydrogen, propane, natural gas, and electric vehicles.

Community Improvement
5
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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Progress Michigan Inc
Public Benefit
7
We the People Action Fund

To promote racial and economic justice throughout Michigan by training and organizing community leaders across the state; Engaging community members in the development of thoughtful public policy solutions through nonpartisan educational…

Civil Rights
8
For Michigan

To empower students in Michigan's higher education institutions to take leadership in their community and increase their participation in the democratic process. We strengthen students' voices in developing and advocating for legislation…

Civil Rights
9
Connect Detroit

To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.

Community Improvement
10
Michigan Voices

The organization seeks to build civic engagment capacity in progressive nonprofit groups that are led by and engage black, indigenous and people of color.

Civil Rights
11
Judicial Integrity Project

To improve Michigans judiciary through the evaluation, education promotion of judges committed to deciding cases based on the plain meaning of text stare decisis develop an education program for legislators general public to raise…

12
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We the People Mi and the most unlike its peers is St Ignace Visitors Bureau. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

We the People MI — $2,724,929 · EducationWe the People MI+1 more — $75,000 · EducationTIDES ADVOCACY — $499,253 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYMICHIGAN COALITION ON — $84,411 · OtherMICHIGAN COALITION …TWO PENINSULAS RESEARCH GROUP — $40,584 · OtherTWO PENINSULAS RESE…ACTBLUE CIVICS INC — $25,000 · Other+4 more — $33,884 · OtherMichigan Peoples Campaign — $100,000 · Civil RightsDETROIT ACTION COMMONWEALTH — $75,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICE — $75,000 · Civil RightsALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $109,000 · Arts & CultureBURMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $45,000 · Public BenefitMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH) — $40,000 · Community ImprovementGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc — $13,000 · Environment
Education$2,799,929Other$683,132Civil Rights$250,000Arts & Culture$149,000Public Benefit$45,000Community Improvement$40,000Environment$13,000

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 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
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.

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

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 Progress Michigan Education Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

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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.

    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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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