Maryland · Nonprofit
DOCS IN PROGRESS INC
DOCS IN PROGRESS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,126,162 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($371,305). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DOCS IN PROGRESS INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared funders
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio match
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 23% · 2019 36% · 2020 53% · 2021 48% · 2022 58% · 2023 38% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of DOCS IN PROGRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $440k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $158k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Docs in Progress Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DOCS IN PROGRESS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DOCS IN PROGRESS INC’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
DOCS IN PROGRESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 DOCS IN PROGRESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 33% · 2019 73% · 2020 52% · 2021 37% · 2022 45% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
36% of DOCS IN PROGRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of DOCS IN PROGRESS INC'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 $481k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $646k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Media Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Documentary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rogovy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Islanders in Communicationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doc Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Asian American Mediaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding DOCS IN PROGRESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DOCS IN PROGRESS INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOCS IN PROGRESS INC: 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 DOCS IN PROGRESS INC?
- DOCS IN PROGRESS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,126,162 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($371,305). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOCS IN PROGRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,126,162 in grants to DOCS IN PROGRESS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOCS IN PROGRESS INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $371,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOCS IN PROGRESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22funders 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