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Progress Texas

Progress Texas (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,000 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW INC ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$125k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$284k
Net assets
$16k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Progress Texas does

Mission

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Progress Texas works with a coalition of partners from around Texas advocating for a variety of issues important to a growing majority of people in the State of Texas.

    $44,361 spent$125,153 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $44,361.

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 ($219k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets -162 ($-25788)2018 Revenue 86 ($187k) Expenses 161 ($264k) Net assets -644 ($-102604)2019 Revenue 137 ($300k) Expenses 217 ($356k) Net assets -1005 ($-160121)2020 Revenue 174 ($381k) Expenses 256 ($421k) Net assets -1245 ($-198293)2021 Revenue 99 ($216k) Expenses 108 ($177k) Net assets -1024 ($-163127)2022 Revenue 73 ($159k) Expenses 59 ($97k) Net assets -633 ($-100748)2023 Revenue 53 ($117k) Expenses 35 ($58k) Net assets -268 ($-42641)2024 Revenue 57 ($125k) Expenses 41 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($16k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (41)Net assets (100)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 2017 to 2018, from $6k to $29k (+402%).

$6k
$29k
$38k
$40k
$51k
$33k
$50k
$58k
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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

100% of Progress Texas’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,984 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.

$55k
’17
−$77k
’18
−$56k
’19
−$39k
’20
$39k
’21
$62k
’22
$59k
’23
$59k
’24
4.9
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

Kathleen Thompson

Executive Director

Board chair

Alex Andrade

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed44444646
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2+3+2
No longer listed·0000050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $50k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Texas’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 Texas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 Texas.

46%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

Progress Texas draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

VA
DC
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Texas runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,800 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,800 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Progress Texas

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 Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Progress Texas Institute · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Progress Texas?
Progress Texas (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,000 to it, the largest being PROGRESS NOW INC ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Progress Texas have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $284,000 in grants to Progress Texas, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Progress Texas?
PROGRESS NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Progress Texas find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 4 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