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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$232k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$26MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$37kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $965,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,726,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $761,433 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $840k
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INST FOR PROGRESS NV$231,700
INNOVATION OH EDUCATION FUND$145,000
PROGRESS AZ INST$141,600
PROGRESS MI EDUCATION$130,000
ENGAGE MICHIGAN$75,300
PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$66,400
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER MINNESOTA$50,000
PRAIRIE ACTION INSTITUTE$25,000
GRANITE STATE PROGRESS EDUCATION$25,000
ALABAMA VALUES$20,000
NATURAL STATE ADV INST$20,000
KANSAS COMMON SENSE$20,000
A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER$15,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%COURAGE CAMPAIGN INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
ID
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
AL
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 14 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$15M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationEnvironmentSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PM
    Progress Michigan Education Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +76% · 50% of their budget
  • PN
    PROGRESS NOW INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $414k · revenue +693%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $332k · revenue +175% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PROGRESS FLORIDA EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6.0M · revenue -97%
  • PN
    PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2020 · $4.5M · revenue -28% · 87% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S EDGE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -12%

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

04Your 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.

1
Northwest Progressive Institute

The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…

Civil Rights
2
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
3
Progressnow Colorado

To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy

Education
4
Tennessee Progress

Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…

—
5
Progressnow New Mexico

Progressnow new mexico is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots communications and advocacy organization working to unite, empower, and enhance the progressive voice in the land of enchantment.

Civil Rights
6
Elevated Voices Inc

Voter education around policy

—
7
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
8
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
9
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

—
10
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
11
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
12
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Progress Florida Education Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural State Advancement Institute Dba Arkansas Strong Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%15%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%40%5–10yr19%54%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,532

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 35 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/30
Grantees still filing
14/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROGRESS FLORIDA EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $6,038,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS FLORIDA EDUCATION INSTITUTE INCPA Alliance Foundation — $4,788,400 · Civil RightsPA Alliance FoundationPROGRESS ARIZONA — $1,341,600 · Civil RightsPROGRESS ARIZONA+6 more — $848,086 · Civil Rights+6 moreProgress Michigan Education Inc — $4,607,800 · Public BenefitProgress Michigan Education In…A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC — $2,615,000 · Public BenefitA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER IN…+2 more — $60,000 · Public BenefitPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA — $4,500,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS NORTH CARO…+3 more — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WOMEN'S EDGE — $1,000,000 · EducationInnovation Ohio Education Fund — $195,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationGRANITE STATE PROGRESS — $160,000 · OtherENGAGE NEW HAMPSHIRE — $60,000 · OtherPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc — $50,000 · OtherPROGRESS IOWA — $50,000 · OtherLEARNING FORWARD TENNESSEE — $25,000 · OtherPROGRESS ARIZONA INSTITUTE — $23,000 · OtherPROGRESS ARIZONA INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC — $50,000 · Other+5 more — $67,500 · OtherCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 — $80,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA VALUES — $70,000 · Arts & Culture
Civil Rights$13,016,086Public Benefit$7,282,800Community Improvement$4,550,000Education$1,215,000Other$505,500Human Services$80,000Arts & Culture$70,000

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 budgetPA Alliance Foundation — $4,788,400 over 2y, 41% of budgetProgress Michigan Education Inc — $4,607,800 over 6y, 50% of budgetPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA — $4,500,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC — $2,615,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA — $1,341,600 over 2y, 30% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC — $413,995 over 2y, 16% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA — $331,700 over 6y, 25% of budgetInnovation Ohio Education Fund — $195,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGRANITE STATE PROGRESS — $160,000 over 5y, 91% of budgetCOURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE C3 — $80,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetALABAMA VALUES — $70,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minneota Education Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBetter Utah Institute — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetKANSAS COMMON SENSE FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNATURAL STATE ADVANCEMENT INSTITUTE DBA ARKANSAS STRONG INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFORWARD TN — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetONE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFuse Washington — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAlliance for a Better Utah Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetProgress Ohio Education Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetVirginia Civic Engagement Table — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

New Venture FundHopewell FundTides FoundationStrategic Victory FundNEO Philanthropy IncThe Susan Thompson Bu…The Prentice Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundProteus Fund IncUnited States Energy …Rockefeller Philanthr…
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

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 Now Education 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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