Colorado · Nonprofit
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,756,033 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,825,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Movement Advancement Project does
Mission
The Movement Advancement Project (map) provides rigorous research, insight, and analysis that help speed equality for all americans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lgbtq policy research - produced policy reports and analyses that are persuasive, easy-to- understand, and actionable including on topics such as efforts to restrict voting rights and attacks on inclusion efforts. - participated in collaborations and coalitions to advance lgbtq data inclusion, to advance federal policies to support lgbtq people, and to support state advocates. - maintained, updated, and expanded the lgbtq equality maps, which are maps top-performing content for both media coverage and page views on the website, and the democracy maps, which provide a holistic state-by-state look at election laws and policies. Movement research and messaging: - maps team of communications, messaging, and policy experts consistently provided nuanced and clear analyses to the media, helping them better communicate about key issues of the day; to advocates in the movement to inform their advocacy and messaging; and to the public directly through our creative and strategic communications work. - conducted movement assessment and building work to help organizations, funders, and other movements better understand lgbtq organizational capacity, including surveys of lgbtq community centers…
$3,843,029 spentof which $352,380 as grants$153,612 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,843,029.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $5.1M (+62%).
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: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Chris Maggiano
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $975k → $4.8M.
17 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 26% · 2020 33% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 31% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
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
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT?
- MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,756,033 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,825,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $16,756,033 in grants to MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 48 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing