Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,900,101 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($5,226,046). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- General Service Foundationshared funders
- Chestnut Fundportfolio match
- Shared Ascent Fundportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
98% of LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $438k → $4.5M.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 42% — 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
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is 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 41 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- General Service Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Chestnut Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shared Ascent Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Red Backpack Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arrow Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bachman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Limestone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tabachnick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ottinger Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ginkgo Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiesportfolio 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.
Government funding LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $108 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $108
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 LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Local Progress Policy Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: 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 LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE?
- LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,900,101 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($5,226,046). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $15,900,101 in grants to LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE?
- The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,226,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 41funders 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