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Real Progress Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$366k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
65%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$180,815
Organizations funded a year
20 to 177
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Real Progress Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$365k50%
FY202420$191k65%
FY202372$135k47%
FY202269$165k43%
FY202189$251k38%
FY2020176$2.2M39%
FY2019177$1.1Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$487kHuman Services$467kEducation$445kCivil Rights$416kHealth$396kFood & Nutrition$287kHousing & Shelter$248kCrime & Legal$246kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indivisible Civics$230,8151n/a
Northwest Harvest Emm$168,77060%
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle$101,00011%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$100,45031%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$100,00010%
Black Men Vote$100,00013%
Equal Justice Initiative$100,00010%
Seattle School for Boys$88,00044%
Mosaic Community Church$85,0003n/a
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$73,94650%
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All grantees of Real Progress Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indivisible Civics$230,8151n/a
Northwest Harvest Emm$168,77060%
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle$101,00011%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$100,45031%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$100,00010%
Black Men Vote$100,00013%
Equal Justice Initiative$100,00010%
Seattle School for Boys$88,00044%
Mosaic Community Church$85,0003n/a
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$73,94650%
Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County$72,70040%
International Committee of the Red Cross$72,30410%
Seattle Children's Foundation$70,60020%
Solid Ground Washington$70,00020%
Seattle Colleges Foundation$60,00021%
El Centro de la Raza$50,00010%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$50,00010%
Pacific Science Center Foundation$50,00010%
City Harvest Inc$50,00010%
Seattle Indian Health Board$50,00010%
International Community Health Services Foundation$50,00016%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$41,55460%
Medical Teams International$35,42050%
Benefits Law Center$32,12941%
Treehouse$31,54240%
Saibaba Seattle$30,2565n/a
Seattle Art Museum$30,00030%
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center$28,01450%
Town Hall Association$26,54050%
Senior Services of Snohomish County$26,30040%
5th Avenue Theatre Association$26,25050%
Maris Place$25,00017%
Sound$24,80040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$24,75050%
Seattle Girls' School$23,60040%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance$23,60051%
LifeWire$23,59050%
Hopelink$23,40030%
Pediatric Interim Care Center$22,00031%
Farestart$21,90020%
Youthcare$21,15030%
Artsfund$21,00020%
University of Washington Foundation$20,89020%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$20,80020%
Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries$20,80020%
Lao Women Association of Washington$20,8005n/a
Brightspark Early Learning Services$20,75020%
Downtown Emergency Service Center$20,75020%
Team Read$20,25022%
College Access Now$20,2502n/a
Special Olympics Washington$20,20220%
Refugee Womens Alliance$20,10030%
Year Up Inc$20,00020%
Mercy Housing Northwest$20,00020%
Climate Solutions$20,00020%
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras$20,00021%
Literacy Source a Community Learning Center$20,00021%
Earthcorps$20,00020%
Arts Corps$20,00021%
Mary's Place Seattle$20,00020%
Multi-Service Center$20,00020%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$20,00020%
Amara$20,00020%
The Dove Project$20,00023%
College Success Foundation$20,00020%
501 Commons$20,00020%
The If Project$20,00022%
Atlantic Street Center$20,00020%
The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$20,00020%
Housing Hope$20,0002n/a
Bellevue College Foundation$20,00020%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Codeorg$20,00020%
Northwest Education Access$20,00020%
Exodus Housing$20,00021%
The Mockingbird Society$20,00021%
Wellspring Family Services$20,00020%
Navos$20,00020%
Greentrike$20,00020%
Ryther$20,00020%
Encompass Northwest$20,00020%
Harvest Against Hunger$20,00020%
Jewish Family Service$20,00020%
Crisis Connections$20,00020%
Renton Technical College Foundation$20,00022%
Seattle Public Library Foundation$20,00020%
Teen Feed$20,00021%
City Year Inc$20,00020%
Cocoon House$20,00020%
Rainier Scholars$20,00020%
Lake Washington College Foundation$20,00021%
Historical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry$20,00020%
Neighborhood House INC$20,00020%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$20,00020%
Compass Housing Alliance$20,00020%
Childhaven$20,00020%
Low Income Housing Institute$20,00020%
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region$20,00020%
Bates Technical College Foundation$20,00021%
Youth Eastside Services$20,00020%
Parent Trust for Washington Children$20,00021%
Pike Market Senior Center$20,00020%
Bainbridge Island Parent-Teacher-Student Organization$15,95054%
Cornell University$15,39050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$14,63650%
Cascade Public Media$13,44030%
Siff$13,21640%
Amitabha Buddhist Society of Seattle$13,0004n/a
Food Lifeline$11,20020%
Backbone Campaign$10,07051%
Washington Innocence Project$10,00011%
Songs of Black Folk$10,00014%
Sound Generations$10,00010%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County$10,00010%
Seattle Jobs Initiative$10,00010%
Family Law Casa of King County$10,00012%
Pacific Education Institute$10,00011%
King County Bar Foundation$10,00011%
Friends of Youth$10,00010%
Angels For Angels$10,00011%
Uplift Northwest$10,00010%
The Insead Management Education Foundation$9,86611%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$7,50010%
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment$7,25020%
Hamlin Robinson School$7,05030%
Pine Island Camp$6,40010%
Evergreen Leather Events$6,34545%
Airhawks Flying Club$6,0001n/a
Camano Stanwood Pickleball Association$5,3001n/a
National Alliance to End Homelessness$5,00010%
Rainbow City Band$4,90030%
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$4,8752n/a
Meals on Wheels America$4,60010%
Stuyvesant High School Parents' Association Inc$4,00030%
Casa Latina$3,80010%
Northwest Water Polo Club$3,50011%
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$3,2001n/a
The NYC Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies Parents$3,00013%
WGBH Educational Foundation$3,00020%
A Contemporary Theatre Inc$3,00030%
Blitz Management Association$2,35017%
Friends of Kexp$2,35020%
Unbound$2,16020%
Romero Institute$2,00020%
Marvista Ptsa$2,00012%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$2,00020%
Water First International$2,00010%
March of Dimes Inc$1,96920%
The Williams Project$1,92530%
Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation$1,88830%
Ignatian Resource Center$1,80031%
Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation$1,73420%
Opensecrets$1,70030%
Helpline House$1,60040%
Team Steady Buckets$1,50010%
Feeding America$1,40010%
Bainbridge Schools Foundation$1,40020%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,27030%
Northwest Community Bail Fund$1,25010%
Pma Education Fund$1,20030%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$1,20020%
Coyote Central$1,10010%
End of Life Washington$1,10030%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$1,03610%
Operation Smile Inc$1,01520%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$1,00010%
Freedom of the Press Foundation$1,00010%
Lambert House$1,00010%
Quiet Oaks$1,00010%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project$1,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$1,00010%
South Asian Bar Association of Washington$1,0001n/a
Friends of Normandy Park Foundation$1,0001n/a
Results Educational Fund Inc$1,00010%
Legal Voice$1,00020%
Called to Serve as Christ Campaign Fund$1,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc$1,00010%
Seattle Dance Collective$1,00011%
Hamilton Middle School Ptsa Seattle Council$1,00012%
Our Lady of Lourdes Church$9501n/a
Helping Link$91620%
Winona State University Foundation$90030%
Classical 981$84020%
Sri Lanka Association of Oregon$8251n/a
Seattle Arts and Lectures$81020%
Young Mens Christian Association$80010%
The Paradise Center$77510%
Thornton Creek Parent Group$75010%
Stanwood-Camano Food Bank Services$70020%
Orcas Island Rowing Association$6601n/a
Naval Station Everett Division - United States Naval Sea Cadet Corp$6502n/a
Sisters of St Dominic Congregation of the Most Holy Name$6002n/a
Direct Relief$60010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$60020%
Pioneers$6001n/a
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm$6001n/a
Bainbridge Island Historical Society$60030%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$60010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$56920%
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Inc$56610%
InvestigateWest$51510%
Sunny Hills Elementary School PTA$5001n/a
Mercy Ships International$50010%
Good Samaritots$5001n/a
Christian Congregation of Jehovahs Witnesses$5001n/a
Holy Names Academy$5001n/a
South Seattle Emerald$50010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$50010%
History Ink$50010%
Pike Place Market Foundation$50010%
Sstepup$5001n/a
Heartland Humane Society$50010%
Ukraine War Animals Relief Fund$50010%
Sos Children's Villages-Usa Inc$50010%
SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research$50010%
Old Dog Haven$50010%
St Margarets Episcopal Church Palm Desert$5001n/a
Givedirectly Inc$50010%
Islamic Relief USA$50010%
The Church in Nutley$5001n/a
Burning Man Project$50010%
Ginger's Pet Rescue$50010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$50010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$50010%
Bellevue Wolverine Boosters$50010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$50010%
Marshall University Foundation Incorporated$50010%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$50010%
Tacoma Arts Live$48210%
Kbtc Association$48010%
Lake Washington Schools Foundation$43610%
Grand Tacoma Cine Club Dba the Grand Cinema$42720%
The Mountaineers$40010%
Filipino American Community of Bainbridge Island & Vicinity$4001n/a
Blue Angels Squadron United State Naval Sea Cadet Corps$4002n/a
Girl Scouts of Western Washington$40010%
The Rich Earth Institute Inc$40010%
Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank$40010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$40010%
Save Our Wild Salmon$40020%
Greenlake Elementary School PTA$40010%
Country Village Day School$40010%
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$40020%
Special Hope Network$40010%
Hedgebrook$35010%
Washington Trails Association$35040%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$35010%
American Cancer Society Inc$35030%
The Whale Museum$32010%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$32010%
Pan Eros Foundation$32020%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky$30020%
Hmong Association of Washington$30010%
Beaverton United Cricketer$3001n/a
First Look Institute Inc$28010%
Post-Prison Education Program$2501n/a
Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation$25010%
Forgotten Childrens Fund$25010%
Pacific Public Media$24010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$24010%
Briarwood Elementary PTA$22010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$21010%
Bainbridge Island Girls Lacrosse Association$20010%
United Service Organizations Inc$20020%
Bainbridge Island Lacrosse Association$20010%
Kitsap Regional Library Foundation$20010%
Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc$20010%
St George Parish School Endowment Foundation$20011%
North Cascades Institute$20010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$20010%
Raising Resilience$2001n/a
Monarch Butterfly Fund$20010%
Razom Inc$20010%
Resilience Guild$20010%
Bainbridge Public Library$20010%
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial$20010%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$20010%
Minnesota Freedom Fund$20010%
Willamette Humane Society$20010%
The Orcas Island Education Foundati On$20010%
The Colorado College$20010%
Warehouse Theatre Company$20010%
Kitsap Humane Society$20010%
Vashon Allied Arts$14020%
Rainier Valley Food Bank$12510%
Sherwood Parent Staff Organization$1201n/a
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$10020%
Emilio Nares Foundation$10020%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$10010%
Camano Animal Shelter Association$10010%
Patriot Football Foundation$10010%
Seattle Clemency Project$1001n/a
US Naval Sea Cadet Corps$10010%
Southern Oregon University Foundation$10010%
Assistance League of Seattle$10010%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$10020%
Banderas Bay Charities Inc$10010%
Birds Connect Seattle$9810%
Puget Soundworks$6610%
Phinney Neighborhood Association$6010%
Mercy Corps$5010%
Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project$5010%
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found$5010%
American Indian College Fund$5010%
Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance$5010%
Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc$5010%
Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services$5010%
Environmental Working Group$5010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5010%
Network for Animals USA Inc$5010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5010%
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS$5010%
Northwestern University$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Real Progress Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $168,770 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUrban League of Metropolitan Seattle: $101,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCongressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc: $100,450 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Men Vote: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle School for Boys: $88,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetPacific Northwest Ballet Association: $73,946 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County: $72,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Committee of the Red Cross: $72,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $70,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Colleges Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEl Centro de la Raza: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Science Center Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Indian Health Board: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Community Health Services Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $41,554 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMedical Teams International: $35,420 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBenefits Law Center: $32,129 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTreehouse: $31,542 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Art Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center: $28,014 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTown Hall Association: $26,540 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSenior Services of Snohomish County: $26,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budget5th Avenue Theatre Association: $26,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSound: $24,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Girls' School: $23,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPuget Soundkeeper Alliance: $23,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLifeWire: $23,590 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHopelink: $23,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $22,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFarestart: $21,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouthcare: $21,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArtsfund: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $20,890 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Western Washington: $20,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries: $20,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services: $20,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $20,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Read: $20,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSpecial Olympics Washington: $20,202 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $20,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYear Up Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE121.1× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Wyman Youth Trust · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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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How do I get to Real Progress Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Real Progress Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Real Progress Foundation

How much does Real Progress Foundation give?
Real Progress Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $365,590 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 177 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Real Progress Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (11%), Human Services (11%), Education (10%).
Who are Real Progress Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Indivisible Civics ($231k), Northwest Harvest Emm ($169k), Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle ($101k).
Does Real Progress Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Real Progress Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Real Progress Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Real Progress Foundation based?
Real Progress Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 372 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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