Michigan · Public charity
Progress Michigan Inc
The organization's mission is to provide a strong, credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable; assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web-based news media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $825,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $926k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Progress Michigan Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $1.6M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $450k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.7M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $791k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress Michigan Political | $1,555,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Progress Michigan Education Inc | $1,089,121 | 3 | 21% |
| We The People Action Fund | $840,243 | 1 | 41% |
| Tides Advocacy | $685,683 | 3 | 1% |
| Progress Now Inc | $463,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Michigan Civic Action Fund | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Action for Liberation | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mi Poder | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress Michigan Political | $1,555,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Progress Michigan Education Inc | $1,089,121 | 3 | 21% |
| We The People Action Fund | $840,243 | 1 | 41% |
| Tides Advocacy | $685,683 | 3 | 1% |
| Progress Now Inc | $463,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Michigan Civic Action Fund | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Action for Liberation | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mi Poder | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Advocates of Mi | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Center for Change A Northern MI Adv | $100,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Emgage Action Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Forward Michigan | $90,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pontiac Policy Action Fund | $69,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emgage Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Clean Water Action | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Liberation Policy Action Cente | $30,000 | 1 | 89% |
| Working America | $24,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mothering Justice | $19,000 | 1 | 1% |
| LGBT Detroit | $19,000 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Progress Michigan Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Michigan Civic Action Fund · Tides Advocacy · America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · State Engagement Fund · For Our Future Action Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Michigan Voices · Pro-Democracy Campaign · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Progress Michigan Inc
- How much does Progress Michigan Inc give?
- Progress Michigan Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $1,615,000, out of $3,387,980 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Progress Michigan Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (50%), Civil Rights (25%), Education (17%).
- Who are Progress Michigan Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Progress Michigan Political ($1.6M), Progress Michigan Education Inc ($1.1M), We The People Action Fund ($840k).
- Does Progress Michigan Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Progress Michigan Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan Civic Action Fund, Tides Advocacy, America Votes.
- Where is Progress Michigan Inc based?
- Progress Michigan Inc is based in MI.
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