Washington · Nonprofit
21 PROGRESS FUND
21 PROGRESS FUND (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,024 to it, the largest being LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ($225,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
21 PROGRESS FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,353 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,353 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Satterberg Foundation Incshared funders
- The Ottinger Foundation Incportfolio match
- Center for American Progressportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of 21 PROGRESS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $95k → $25k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 21 PROGRESS FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
21 PROGRESS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 21 PROGRESS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of 21 PROGRESS FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $75k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Satterberg Foundation Incshared fundersWA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Ottinger Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progressportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arca Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progress Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Progress Now Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy Fund Voice Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our American Future Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wallace Global Fund IIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Onward Togetherportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like 21 PROGRESS FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
20% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 21 Progress Washington · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 21 PROGRESS FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds 21 PROGRESS FUND?
- 21 PROGRESS FUND (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,024 to it, the largest being LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ($225,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 21 PROGRESS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $423,024 in grants to 21 PROGRESS FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 21 PROGRESS FUND?
- LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 21 PROGRESS FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing