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Washington Progress Alliance

Washington Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.

$376k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.5MCivil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$235kCommunity Improvement$141kHealth$120kSocial Science$25kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $365,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $375,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington Conservation Voters - Native Vote WA$150,000
Pro-Choice WA$60,000
The Washington Bus$50,000
Washington CAN - Pacific County Voices Uniting$40,000
OneAmerica Votes$15,000
Sage Leaders$10,000
Washington CAN$10,000
WA Community Alliance Action Fund$10,000
OneAmerica Votes$10,000
Northwest Progressive Institute$5,000
Ktisis Capital LLC$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Tides Advocacy: $30k → 10%Six Action: $25k → 10%Washington Community Alliance Action Fund: $287k → 9%Spokane Community Against Racism LLC: $50k → 12%Rural People's Voice: $172k → 17%Tides Advocacy: $25k → 10%Washington CAN: $225k → 9%Rural People's Voice: $50k → 17%Fuse Washington: $194k → 9%Washington CAN: $100k → 9%Our Votes Count: $165k → 9%Washington CAN: $65k → 9%Washington Conservation Voters - Native Vote WA: $150k → 9%Washington Community Alliance Action Fund: $65k → 9%Win Win Action: $105k → 9%Washington Bus: $60k → 9%Win Win Action: $104k → 9%Washington Community Action Network: $55k → 9%Fuse Washington: $100k → 9%Washington Community Action Network: $50k → 9%Win Win Action: $95k → 9%The Washington Bus: $50k → 9%Win Win Action: $87k → 9%Washington Community Action Network: $50k → 9%Fuse Washington: $85k → 9%Washington CAN - Pacific County Voices Uniting: $40k → 9%People for a Balanced Tax Code: $60k → 9%WA Community Alliance Action Fund: $29k → 9%Pro-Choice WA: $60k → 9%Washington Conservation Voters: $55k → 9%Step Forward Washington - All in for Action: $45k → 9%Pro-Choice Washington: $30k → 9%Pro-Choice Washington: $30k → 9%Win Win Action: $60k → 9%Win Win Action: $50k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $160k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $60k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $55k → 9%Fuse Washington: $55k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $55k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $55k → 9%OneAmerica Votes: $50k → 9%One America Votes: $38k → 9%Sage Leaders: $64k → 9%Sage Leaders: $55k → 9%APACE: $45k → 9%Washington Bus: $40k → 9%Sage Leaders: $30k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 17 repeat orgs$460k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -67% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$4.0M
$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-67%

Still filing today

65%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WC
    Washington Community Action Network
    8× · 2017–2024 · $614k · revenue +22%
  • FW
    Fuse Washington
    7× · 2017–2023 · $552k · revenue +85%
  • OV
    ONEAMERICA VOTES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $498k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • OV
    Our Votes Count
    one grant, 2017 · $165k
  • PF
    People for a Balanced Tax Code
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • FW
    FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -88%
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
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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2
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
3
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
4
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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5
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
6
Washington Progress Alliance

Washington Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.

Community Improvement
7
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
8
Rural Peoples Platform

The Rural Peoples Platform organizes people across rural North Central Washington around local initiatives and a long-term agenda that makes economic stability possible and sustainable for all working people and families.

Community Improvement
9
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
10
Fuse Innovation Fund

To develop creative programs to educate and engage activists about critical issues in Washington State

Environment
11
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
12
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Community Action Network; the most unlike its peers is Sage Leaders. 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

18 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. 18 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Washington Community Action Network: $613,500 · OtherWashington Community Action NetworkWin Win Action: $546,038 · OtherWin Win ActionWashington Community Alliance Action Fund: $297,000 · OtherWashington Community Alliance Action FundWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION: $225,000 · OtherWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTIONSAGE LEADERS: $169,267 · OtherSAGE LEADERSOur Votes Count: $164,500 · OtherOur Votes CountPro-Choice Washington: $120,000 · OtherWashington Community Alliance Action Fund: $94,000 · Other+17 more: $537,345 · Other+17 moreONEAMERICA VOTES: $498,386 · Civil RightsONEAMERICA VOTESThe Washington Bus: $246,500 · Civil RightsThe Washington BusRural Peoples Voice: $222,000 · Civil RightsRural Peoples VoiceSIX ACTION: $65,000 · Civil RightsSIX ACTION+2 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsFuse Washington: $551,800 · EnvironmentFuse Washingto…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentFAIRVOTE WASHINGTON: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$2,766,650Civil Rights$1,046,886Environment$561,800Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington Community Action Network: $613,500 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetFuse Washington: $551,800 over 7y, 24% of budgetWin Win Action: $546,038 over 6y, 27% of budgetONEAMERICA VOTES: $498,386 over 8y, 12% of budgetWashington Community Alliance Action Fund: $297,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetThe Washington Bus: $246,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION: $225,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetRural Peoples Voice: $222,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSAGE LEADERS: $169,267 over 5y, 47% of budgetPro-Choice Washington: $120,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $66,687 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIX ACTION: $65,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFAIRVOTE WASHINGTON: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetJust Transition Voters: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetInvest in Washington Now Campaign: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Washington Community Action Network ↗
  • Who funds Fuse Washington ↗
  • Who funds Win Win Action ↗
  • Who funds ONEAMERICA VOTES ↗
  • Who funds Washington Community Alliance Action Fund ↗
  • Who funds The Washington Bus ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Rural Peoples Voice ↗
  • Who funds SAGE LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds Pro-Choice Washington ↗
  • Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds SIX ACTION ↗
  • Who funds FAIRVOTE WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Just Transition Voters ↗
  • Who funds Invest in Washington Now Campaign ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Inatai FoundationWashington Education …Tides AdvocacyAmerican Federation o…
Inatai FoundationWA23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Washington Education Association · Tides Advocacy · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

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 Washington Progress Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Progress Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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