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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIVISIBLE CIVICS$180,815
INDIVISIBLE CIVICS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MARY'S PLACE$25,000
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
SONGS OF BLACK FOLK$10,000
KUOW$10,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$10,000
TREEHOUSE$10,000
BENEFITS LAW CENTER$10,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$10,000
BUILD$7,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
EVERGREEN LEATHER EVENTS$1,225
RESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $2k → 10%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $3k → 9%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY - HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $11k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY - HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY - HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY - HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $1k → 9%RYTHER: $10k → 9%RYTHER: $10k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $60k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10k → 9%SEATTLE COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $11k → 9%SEATTLE COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $2k → 9%BENEFITS LAW CENTER: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%MILLIONAIR CLUB INC: $10k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $50k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $21k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $10k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $10k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 157 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

157 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 148 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
199

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CB
    CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +163%
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $74k · revenue +15%
  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $71k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +261%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • BM
    BLACK MEN VOTE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
3
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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4
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
5
Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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6
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
7
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement
8
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
9
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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10
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
11
Humanities Washington

Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…

Arts & Culture
12
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Evergreen Leather Events. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

294 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 294 of the 372 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
287/294
Grantees still filing
201/294
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $168,770 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $101,000 · OtherSEATTLE FOUNDATION COVID-19 RESPONSE FUND: $100,000 · OtherSEATTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $88,000 · OtherMOSAIC COMMUNITY CHURCH: $85,000 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation: $70,600 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $72,304 · Other+93 more: $1,234,748 · Other+93 moreINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $230,815 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVI…CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $100,450 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BL…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFE…BLACK MEN VOTE: $100,000 · Civil RightsBLACK MEN VOTEEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE IN…YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $72,700 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CH…EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $50,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA…BENEFITS LAW CENTER: $32,129 · Human ServicesBENEFITS LAW CE…SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $26,300 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,750 · Human ServicesLifeWire: $23,590 · Human ServicesHOPELINK: $23,400 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $21,150 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $20,800 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services: $20,750 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens Alliance: $20,100 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesMULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesAMARA: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $20,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesRYTHER: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $20,000 · Human ServicesPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $20,000 · Human Services+9 more: $47,830 · Human Services+9 morePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $73,946 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NOR…DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY N…PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SCI…KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $41,554 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET …SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART…Town Hall Association: $26,540 · Arts & CultureTown Hall A…5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $26,250 · Arts & Culture5TH AVENUE …ARTSFUND: $21,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureArts Corps: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $44,344 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationSEATTLE C…SEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $23,600 · EducationSEATTLE G…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $20,890 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Team Read: $20,250 · EducationTeam ReadYEAR UP INC: $20,000 · EducationYEAR UP I…LITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 · EducationLITERACY …College Success Foundation: $20,000 · EducationCollege S…BELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBELLEVUE …CODEORG: $20,000 · EducationCODEORGNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $20,000 · EducationNORTHWEST…RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationRENTON TE…SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationSEATTLE P…RAINIER SCHOLARS: $20,000 · EducationRAINIER S…Cornell University: $15,390 · Education+10 more: $35,800 · Education+10 moreSEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $50,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthPediatric Interim Care Center: $22,000 · HealthDowntown Emergency Service Center: $20,750 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthNAVOS: $20,000 · HealthCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $20,000 · HealthYouth Eastside Services: $20,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $6,269 · HealthSolid Ground Washington: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $20,800 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterEXODUS HOUSING: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,920,422Civil Rights$631,265Human Services$583,499Arts & Culture$443,634Education$355,930Health$239,019Housing & Shelter$175,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationMedina FoundationLucky Seven FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Grousemont FoundationRaikes FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Wyman Youth TrustCredit Unions in the …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Real Progress Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Real Progress Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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