Virginia · Public charity
Progress Now Inc
To support partner organizations at the state level in providing a strong credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues.
- $7.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,736,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Progress Now Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 16 | $7.6M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $2.5M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $453k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $260k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $802k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $215k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $448k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $254k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress North Carolina Action | $1,986,000 | 4 | 26% |
| Progress Michigan Inc | $1,418,000 | 6 | 23% |
| A Better Wisconsin Together Inc | $1,325,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Commonwealth Communications | $1,250,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Progress Arizona | $942,200 | 3 | 31% |
| Innovation Ohio | $726,500 | 2 | 53% |
| Progress Now Education | $719,551 | 3 | 32% |
| Progress Georgia Inc | $700,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Progress Iowa | $672,670 | 6 | 73% |
| Battle Born Progress | $628,000 | 6 | 39% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progress North Carolina Action | $1,986,000 | 4 | 26% |
| Progress Michigan Inc | $1,418,000 | 6 | 23% |
| A Better Wisconsin Together Inc | $1,325,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Commonwealth Communications | $1,250,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Progress Arizona | $942,200 | 3 | 31% |
| Innovation Ohio | $726,500 | 2 | 53% |
| Progress Now Education | $719,551 | 3 | 32% |
| Progress Georgia Inc | $700,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Progress Iowa | $672,670 | 6 | 73% |
| Battle Born Progress | $628,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Alliance for a Better Minnesota | $378,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Middle Fork Strategies Inc | $305,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Connecting the Dots Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| People Power Pennsylvania | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Millions of Michiganians | $220,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Progress Now Inc | $176,140 | 1 | 1% |
| Progress Texas | $130,000 | 4 | 14% |
| One Wisconsin Now Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Americans for Democratic Action Inc | $92,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa Citizen Action Network Educ Foundation | $77,500 | 4 | 43% |
| Iowa Citizen Action Network | $22,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Interfaith Alliance of Iowa | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Progress New Mexico | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Votes Idaho Company | $19,536 | 1 | n/a |
| Fuse Washington | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Forward Tn | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Courier Newsroom Inc | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Progressnow New Mexico | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Progress Now Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Strategic Victory Fund · North Fund · America Votes · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · State Engagement Fund · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Progress Now Education · Grove Action Fund · Women Donors Network Action
How this is measured
About Progress Now Inc
- How much does Progress Now Inc give?
- Progress Now Inc reported 19 grants totaling $7,672,510 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Progress Now Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (99%), Civil Rights (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are Progress Now Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Progress North Carolina Action ($2.0M), Progress Michigan Inc ($1.4M), A Better Wisconsin Together Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Progress Now Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Progress Now Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Strategic Victory Fund, North Fund.
- Where is Progress Now Inc based?
- Progress Now Inc is based in VA.
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