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Progress Michigan Inc

Progress Michigan Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,216,467 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($6,828,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.4M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$757k
8/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Progress Michigan Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide a strong, credible voice that holds public officials and government accountable; assists in the promotion of progressive ideas and uses state-of-the-art web-based news media to creatively build grassroots support for progressive ideas.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Progress Michigan provided a strong, credible voice for givernment accountability and the promotion of progressive ideas by building partnerships with nearly 100 state partners working in labor, environment, education, human service, civil liberties and other organizations and providing communications services as needed. Progress Michigan has been a lead organization in bringing together the progressive community to work for a common issue agenda.

    $4,529,705 spentof which $1,615,000 as grants$137,800 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,529,705.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($395k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 602 ($2.3M) Expenses 508 ($2.0M) Net assets 1778 ($273k)2019 Revenue 312 ($1.2M) Expenses 194 ($767k) Net assets 4404 ($675k)2020 Revenue 1604 ($6.0M) Expenses 1178 ($4.7M) Net assets 13256 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 427 ($1.6M) Expenses 702 ($2.8M) Net assets 5567 ($853k)2022 Revenue 1048 ($3.9M) Expenses 988 ($3.9M) Net assets 5707 ($875k)2023 Revenue 497 ($1.9M) Expenses 386 ($1.5M) Net assets 7915 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 1166 ($4.4M) Expenses 1220 ($4.8M) Net assets 4936 ($757k)
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Revenue (1166)Expenses (1220)Net assets (4936)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $742k to $2.3M (+215%).

$98k
$350k
$742k
$2.3M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$926k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Progress Michigan Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$21k
’17
$247k
’18
$403k
’19
$1.4M
’20
−$1.2M
’21
$21k
’22
$338k
’23
−$457k
’24
2.2
months of
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

Samuel Inglot

Executive Director

Board chair

Patrick Schuhn

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed77666766
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2+0+1
No longer listed·0100111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $1.5M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$6.3M
Progress Now Incunclassified
$1.4M
America Votesunclassified
$1.2M
$442k
Tides Advocacyunclassified
$280k
$75k
Promote the Voteunclassified
$25k
$25k
$15k
funders
1
6
4
15
5
9
3
4
2

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Progress Michigan 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

Progress Michigan Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Progress Michigan Inc.

36%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 67% · 2020 51% · 2021 67% · 2022 52% · 2023 78% — 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

17% of Progress Michigan Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

Progress Michigan Inc draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 9 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Progress Michigan Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Progress Michigan Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Progress Michigan Education · exempt
  • Progress Michigan PAC · exempt
  • Millions of Michiganians · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Progress Michigan Inc?
Progress Michigan Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,216,467 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ($6,828,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Progress Michigan Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $19,216,467 in grants to Progress Michigan Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Progress Michigan Inc?
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,828,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Progress Michigan Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 23 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