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PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA

PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,791,694 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ($4,500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$-597012
9/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Progress North Carolina does

Mission

Progress North Carolina conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's common good and quality of life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Paid Media Project - Progress North Carolina created and produced c3 advertisements for paid communications including civic education messages.

    $2,038,492 spentof which $300,000 as grants
    50% of program spending
  2. Digital Volunteer Engagement Project - Digital organizers worked to identify and engage volunteers throughout the state of North Carolina. The volunteers uplifted graphic and creative content on their own social media channels.

    $1,865,706 spentof which $250,000 as grants
    46% of program spending
  3. Narrative Project - The North Carolina narrative project coordinator analyzed c3 public opinion research and helped draft messaging for c3 partners. We executed training on how to develop first person narratives.

    $152,224 spentof which $20,110 as grants
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,056,422.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M) Net assets 100 ($317k)2021 Revenue 14 ($739k) Expenses 18 ($865k) Net assets 60 ($192k)2022 Revenue 14 ($752k) Expenses 19 ($921k) Net assets 7 ($22k)2023 Revenue 17 ($877k) Expenses 18 ($897k) Net assets 1 ($2k)2024 Revenue 72 ($3.8M) Expenses 89 ($4.4M) Net assets -188 ($-597012)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (72)Expenses (89)Net assets (-188)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 2020 to 2021, from $373k to $193k (−48%).

$373k
$193k
$26k
$178k
$26k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$282k
’20
−$126k
’21
−$169k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$599k
’24
0.1
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

Jess Jollett

Executive Director

Board chair

Chris Kromm

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed55555
Joined·+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·1001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $408k → $877k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NORTH CAROLINA’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 NORTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 NORTH CAROLINA.

38%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 87% · 2021 99% · 2022 76% · 2023 73% — 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

13% of PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

52% of PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NJ
NE
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $932k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA?
PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,791,694 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ($4,500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $11,791,694 in grants to PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA?
PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 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