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Progress Texas Institute

Progress Texas Institute (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,569,555 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,470,524). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$259k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$101k
11/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Progress Texas Institute does

Mission

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Progress Texas Institute provides ongoing research services, as well as counsel to table partners of effective strategies for working with media and the press.

    $158,808 spentof which $384,685 as grants$8,758 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $158,808.

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 ($677k) Expenses 100 ($485k) Net assets 100 ($186k)2018 Revenue 202 ($1.4M) Expenses 206 ($1.0M) Net assets 298 ($553k)2019 Revenue 141 ($953k) Expenses 222 ($1.1M) Net assets 221 ($410k)2020 Revenue 149 ($1.0M) Expenses 186 ($901k) Net assets 300 ($557k)2021 Revenue 141 ($952k) Expenses 199 ($967k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 23 ($158k) Expenses 98 ($475k) Net assets 0 ($0)2023 Revenue 58 ($393k) Expenses 56 ($273k) Net assets 142 ($264k)2024 Revenue 38 ($259k) Expenses 87 ($423k) Net assets 54 ($101k)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (87)Net assets (54)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 $560k to $0 (−100%).

$187k
$553k
$414k
$560k
$0
$0
$266k
$103k
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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 Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$191k
’17
$367k
’18
−$124k
’19
$107k
’20
−$14k
’21
−$317k
’22
$120k
’23
−$164k
’24
0.8
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

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed771010101085
Joined·+0+3+0+2+1+0+3
No longer listed·0002126
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $80k → $386k.

9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

Progress Texas Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 58% · 2019 82% · 2020 71% · 2021 83% · 2022 42% · 2023 52% — 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

16% of Progress Texas Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 Texas Institute draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 11 states in all.

MN
NY
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
NM
DC
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Texas Institute's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−63% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Progress Texas Institute

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
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.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Progress Texas · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Progress Texas Institute?
Progress Texas Institute (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,569,555 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,470,524). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Progress Texas Institute have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,569,555 in grants to Progress Texas Institute, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Progress Texas Institute?
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,470,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Progress Texas Institute 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 33 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