How much did PROGRESS NOW INC grant in FY2024?

PROGRESS NOW INC reported 19 grants totaling $7,672,510 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is PROGRESS NOW INC based?

PROGRESS NOW INC is based in VA.

PROGRESS NOW INC

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

PROGRESS NOW INC

To support partner organizations at the state level in promoting citizen engagement in the formation of public policy.

$7.7M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.7M

Largest

01What you fund

0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$3.5MCivil Rights$3.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHuman Services$305kPhilanthropy$50kEnvironment$49kReligion$20kOther$4.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

adalobbyingfounderseconomistjohnkennethgalbraith

2019

communicationsprogressive ideas

2020

extremerightsforwardtntennesseansgoalsharedprotect

2021

northsocial welfarenon-profitprogressive ideas

2022

usingdigitalnorthprogressive ideas

2023

foundednorthusing digitalsocial welfareresearchcommunicationsissues

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
$250k+10 grants · $6.5M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

PROGRESS NC ACTION$1,736,000
A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER$1,025,000
PROGRESS NOW AZ$782,200
COMMONWEALTH COMMS$772,000
PROGRESS MICHIGAN$675,000
BATTLE BORN PROGRESS (NV)$375,000
PROGRESS MICHIGAN PAC$350,000
NEBRASKA CONNECTING THE DOTS$300,000
INNOVATION OHIO$276,500
PEOPLE POWER PENNSYLVANIA$250,000
MILLIONS OF MICHIGANIANS$220,000
PROGRESS IOWA$207,670
PROGRESS GEORGIA$200,000
MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES$155,000
PROGRESS VIRGINIA$126,140

02The need

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 18 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+130%

Still filing today

78%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

PN
PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +469% · 26% of their budget
PM
PROGRESS MICHIGAN PAC
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +1066%
AF
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER WI TOGETHER
3× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +366%

Funded once

ST
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $34k · revenue +255%
IA
INTERFAITH ALLIANCE IOWAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +142%
VI
VOTES IDAHOgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +130%

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.

Progressnow Colorado

To promote citizen engagement in the formation of public policy

Education

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.

Public Benefit

Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights

Progress North Carolina

Progress North Carolina conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's common…

Community Improvement

Progressnow Colorado Education

To provide a strong credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues

Community Improvement

Institute for a Progressive Nevada

Institute for a Progressive Nevada educates, empowers, and engages Nevadans to build a state where everyone has a fair opportunity to succeed.

Civil Rights

Institute for Public Accuracy

The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.

Arts & Culture

Progress Mo

Progress mo is a multi-issue advocacy organization focused on advancing progressive issues through communication. our mission is to provide a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems.

Civil Rights

Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice

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Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress is a state-based candidate recruitment and training program, responsible for building a progressive network of elected leaders at the local and state level. our candidates represent the next generation of progressive…

Civil Rights

Oklahoma Forward Inc

Oklahoma Forward works to identify what everyday Oklahomans care about, and help to give them a stronger voice in state government. By creating an environment where Oklahoma voters feel empowered, we can encourage a posi

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Progress Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Americans for Democratic Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/25

Grantees still filing

17/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,416,757Public Benefit$3,496,500Civil Rights$3,283,340Community Improvement$1,021,000Human Services$305,000Philanthropy$50,000Environment$48,750Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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.

Strategic Victory FundNC33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strategic Victory Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · North Fund · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · State Engagement Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · American Federation of State County · Tides Advocacy · Center For American Progress Action Fund · Progress Now Education

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 organisation PROGRESS NOW 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INNOVATION OHIO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274562062 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INNOVATION OHIO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Progress Now Inc?

Find your warmest path to Progress Now Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PROGRESS NOW INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Progress Now Inc?

More from the funding graph

PROGRESS NOW INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Progress Now Inc?

More from the funding graph