How much does Progress Now Education give?

Progress Now Education reported 13 itemized grants totaling $965,000, out of $1,726,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Progress Now Education fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (96%), Education (4%), Environment (0%).

Who are Progress Now Education's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Progress Florida Education Institute Inc ($6.0M), PA Alliance Foundation ($4.8M), Progress Michigan Education Inc ($4.6M).

Does Progress Now Education fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Progress Now Education?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Tides Foundation.

Where is Progress Now Education based?

Progress Now Education is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

Progress Now Education

To support partner organizations at the state level in providing a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $965k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $231,700
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 13; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $4.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Progress Now Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	12	$965k	25%
FY2023	11	$578k	36%
FY2022	9	$150k	67%
FY2021	8	$185k	38%
FY2020	13	$24M	69%
FY2019	8	$320k	75%
FY2018	4	$274k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$26MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$37kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Progress Florida Education Institute Inc	$6,038,000	1	n/a
PA Alliance Foundation	$4,788,400	2	41%
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$4,607,800	6	50%
Progress North Carolina	$4,500,000	1	87%
A Better Wisconsin Together Institute Inc	$2,615,000	2	72%
Progress Arizona	$1,341,600	2	30%
The Women's Edge	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Progress Now Inc	$413,995	2	16%
Institute for a Progressive Nevada	$331,700	6	25%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$195,000	3	23%

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All grantees of Progress Now Education by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Progress Florida Education Institute Inc	$6,038,000	1	n/a
PA Alliance Foundation	$4,788,400	2	41%
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$4,607,800	6	50%
Progress North Carolina	$4,500,000	1	87%
A Better Wisconsin Together Institute Inc	$2,615,000	2	72%
Progress Arizona	$1,341,600	2	30%
The Women's Edge	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Progress Now Inc	$413,995	2	16%
Institute for a Progressive Nevada	$331,700	6	25%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$195,000	3	23%
Granite State Progress	$160,000	5	91%
Courage California Institute C3	$80,000	5	10%
Alabama Values	$70,000	3	6%
Engage New Hampshire	$60,000	1	n/a
Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Center for Public Interest Research Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Progress Iowa	$50,000	2	n/a
Alliance for a Better Minneota Education Fund	$50,000	1	8%
Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund Inc	$37,391	1	n/a
Better Utah Institute	$35,000	2	12%
Learning Forward Tennessee	$25,000	1	n/a
Progress Arizona Institute	$23,000	1	n/a
Natural State Advancement Institute Dba Arkansas Strong Institute	$20,000	1	29%
Kansas Common Sense Fund	$20,000	1	3%
Forward Tn	$20,000	2	2%
Fuse Washington	$15,000	1	3%
Alliance for a Better Utah Inc	$15,000	1	8%
Virginia Civic Engagement Table	$15,000	1	2%
Progress Ohio Education Inc	$15,000	1	24%
One Wisconsin Institute Inc	$15,000	1	27%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$10,000	1	1%
Fuse Innovation Fund	$7,500	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Progress Now Education supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 26.

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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.

New Venture FundDC31.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Strategic Victory Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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.

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About Progress Now Education

How much does Progress Now Education give?: Progress Now Education reported 13 itemized grants totaling $965,000, out of $1,726,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Progress Now Education fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (96%), Education (4%), Environment (0%).
Who are Progress Now Education's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Progress Florida Education Institute Inc ($6.0M), PA Alliance Foundation ($4.8M), Progress Michigan Education Inc ($4.6M).
Does Progress Now Education fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Progress Now Education?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Tides Foundation.
Where is Progress Now Education based?: Progress Now Education is based in VA.