Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Digital Progress Institute
The Digital Progress Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,000 to it, the largest being Americas Broadband Future ($129,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The Digital Progress Institute does
Mission
The DPI is organized exclusively to promote social welfare by advocating for a pragmatic, bipartisan approach to the Internet economy that smart regulation has its place and legacy regulations of a bygone era only hurt our nation's most vulnerable populations. The DPI seeks to advance ubiquitous broadband to the American public, push for new spectrum resources for 5G and beyond, advance a full stack framework for Internet governance, address actual competitive harms in the Internet marketplace, and protect consumer privacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BROADBAND: Promote policies to expand ubiquitous mobile and fixed broadband to all Americans. DPI maintained an online map to show where American families and veterans were using the Affordable Connectivity Program benefit as part of its efforts to raise awareness of the importance of the program and conducted advertising of that map and its work.
$168,519 spentof which $10,000 as grants$154,333 earned by the program23% of program spendingFULL STACK FRAMEWORK: Promote a holistic framework for Internet governance including examining and target market power where it actually exists. Such work also included raising awareness of the need for age verification measures, especially at the app store level.
$147,782 spent$301,000 earned by the program20% of program spendingPRIVACY: Protect consumer privacy while ensuring a level playing field for innovation. Such work also included ensuring that age verification measures protected the privacy of all Americans.
$144,039 spent$267,667 earned by the program19% of program spendingROBUST COMPETITION: Reexamining market forces in the digital era to ensure that artificial roadblocks, imposed by government or private-sector monopolists, do not restrain full-fledged competition. Such work also included raising awareness of the importance of bipartisan antitrust enforcement, the importance of interoperability, and working on app store age verification measures.
$145,139 spent$267,667 earned by the program20% of program spending5G & BEYOND: Explaining the importance of freeing up licensed and unlicensed spectrum resources and efficiently allocating them so that the booming commercial online economy can thrive to the benefit of American families and veterans.
$133,532 spent$154,333 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $739,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $736k to $1.2M (+57%).
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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of The Digital Progress Institute’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
The Digital Progress Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 The Digital Progress Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 36% · 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
93% of The Digital Progress Institute's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 The Digital Progress Institute
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Digital Progress Institute: 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 The Digital Progress Institute?
- The Digital Progress Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,000 to it, the largest being Americas Broadband Future ($129,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Digital Progress Institute have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $294,000 in grants to The Digital Progress Institute, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Digital Progress Institute?
- Americas Broadband Future is the largest funder on record, with $129,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Digital Progress Institute 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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