Program areas at The Digital Progress Institute
BROADBAND: Promote policies to expand ubiquitous mobile and fixed broadband to all Americans. DPI created 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.
PRIVACY: Protect consumer privacy while ensuring a level playing field for innovation.
FULL 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 national security threat of ByteDance's control of TikTok as well as a white paper on implementing a full-stack framework.
ROBUST 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.
5G & 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.
Grants made by The Digital Progress Institute
| Grantee | Grant description | Grant year | Amount |
|---|
| Ethics and Public Policy Center | Support for Eppc's Technology and Human Flourishing Project, Including the Drafting of A White Paper on A Full-Stack Framework That Promotes Robust Competition and Privacy for Every American. | 2023-12 | $30,000 |
| Alices Kids | To Distribute Laptops, Tablets, and Other Electronic Communications Equipment To Children in Need To Carry Dpi's Goal of Achieving Ubiquitous Broadband for All Americans. | 2023-12 | $10,000 |
Who funds The Digital Progress Institute
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at The Digital Progress Institute
| Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
|---|
| Joel Thayer | President | $107,027 | 2024-08-07 |
| Kim Keenan | Board Member | $0 | 2024-08-07 |
| Nicholas Degani | Chief Strategist | $0 | 2023-05-17 |
Financials for The Digital Progress Institute
| Revenues | FYE 12/2023 | FYE 12/2022 | % Change |
|---|
| Total grants, contributions, etc. | $1,395,000 | $325,000 | 329.2% |
| Program services | $0 | $0 | - |
| Investment income and dividends | $800 | $0 | 999% |
| Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
| Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
| Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
| Miscellaneous revenues | $0 | $0 | - |
| Total revenues | $1,395,800 | $325,000 | 329.5% |
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Data update history
July 12, 2024
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
August 11, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990EZ for fiscal year 2021
July 9, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
June 28, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
Nonprofit Types
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Issues
Science and technology
Characteristics
Conducts research
General information
- Address
- 1255 Union St Ne 7th Floor
- Washington, DC 20002
- Metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Website URL
- digitalprogress.tech/Â
- Phone
- (626) 617-4941
IRS details
- EIN
- 87-1330450
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 2021
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- No
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- U00: Science and Technology Research: General
- NAICS code, primary
- 813319: Social Advocacy Organizations
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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