Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PRO ENGLISH
PRO ENGLISH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,290 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($195,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $326k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $813k
What Pro English does
Mission
Undertake educational programs informing the public of the need for common-sense immigration policies; the need to consider population growth on the environment and our ability to protect and conserve our natural resources; and the need to preserve and promote english as the unifying language of the united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational programs designed to protect the country's linguistic unity by making english the official (non-exclusive) language of government operations and defending its role as the nation's common language by doing research and disseminating information through quarterly newsletters distributed to about 15,000 individuals, direct mail, maintaining an internet website and social media channels, publishing articles, conducting media interviews, and defending the use of english and the right of employers and institutions to have language policies at their places of business.
$362,007 spent$4,113 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,007.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $1.5M (−21%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Ellen Hamilton-Cotten
Executive director/treasurer
Board chair
Phil Kent Sr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $69k → $1k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest US Inc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PRO ENGLISH raised.
From the IRS filings of PRO ENGLISH’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
PRO ENGLISH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 PRO ENGLISH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 85% · 2019 92% · 2020 40% · 2021 53% · 2022 81% · 2023 70% — 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
12% of PRO ENGLISH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
89% of PRO ENGLISH'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 $38k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like PRO ENGLISH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- US Inc Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRO ENGLISH: 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 PRO ENGLISH?
- PRO ENGLISH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,290 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($195,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRO ENGLISH have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $347,290 in grants to PRO ENGLISH, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRO ENGLISH?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRO ENGLISH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing