Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by The Digital Progress Institute.

Totals

Total revenue: $1,069,920
Total expenses: $899,302
Contributions and grants received: $1,059,000
Grants paid: $150,000
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $10,920
Other revenue: $0
Total assets, end of year: $736,002
Total liabilities, end of year: $4,213
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $731,789
Program services expenses (Part IX): $897,302
Management and general expenses: $2,000
Fundraising expenses: $0
Program service expenses (Part III): $897,302

Program services were 99.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

1a · Federated campaigns

$0
1b · Membership dues

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$0
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$1,059,000
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $10,920 · related or exempt $10,920 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6a · Gross rents

real property $0 · personal property $0
6b · Less rental expenses

real property $0 · personal property $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
6d · Net rental income or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $0 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$0
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
9a · Gaming: gross income

$0
9b · Gaming: direct expenses

$0
9c · Net income from gaming

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$0
10b · Cost of goods sold

$0
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11d · All other revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $150,000 · program services $150,000
2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $0 · program services $0
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

total $0 · program services $0
4 · Benefits paid to or for members

total $0 · program services $0
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $388,053 · program services $388,053 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $31,464 · program services $31,464 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
9 · Other employee benefits

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
10 · Payroll taxes

total $25,114 · program services $25,114
11a · Fees: management

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11b · Fees: legal

total $24,702 · program services $24,702 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11c · Fees: accounting

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11d · Fees: lobbying

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

total $0 · fundraising $0
11f · Fees: investment management

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11g · Fees: other

total $72,641 · program services $72,641 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $160,072 · program services $160,072 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
13 · Office expenses

total $398 · program services $398 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
14 · Information technology

total $623 · program services $623 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
15 · Royalties

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
16 · Occupancy

total $34,606 · program services $34,606 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
17 · Travel

total $3,658 · program services $3,658 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
20 · Interest

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
21 · Payments to affiliates

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
23 · Insurance

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24a · Other expenses: Payroll Processing

total $1,815 · program services $0 · management and general $1,815 · fundraising $0
24b · Other expenses: Transportation

total $1,290 · program services $1,290 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24e · All other expenses

total $4,866 · program services $4,681 · management and general $185 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $346,567 · end of year $84,282
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $100,800 · end of year $261,720
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $115,000 · end of year $390,000
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
7 · Other notes and loans receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
8 · Inventories for sale or use

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $0
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
13 · Investments: program-related

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
15 · Other assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $1,196 · end of year $4,213
18 · Grants payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
25 · Other liabilities

beginning of year $0
29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

beginning of year $561,171 · end of year $731,789

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

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.

Expenses $290,513 · Revenue $223,500
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, testifying and filing briefs on that same issue, and working on app store age verification measures.

Expenses $167,286 · Grants $50,000 · Revenue $241,167
PRIVACY: Protect consumer privacy while ensuring a level playing field for innovation. Such work also included raising awareness of the national security threat of ByteDance's control of TikTok, testifying and filing briefs on that same issue, and working on app store age verification measures.

Expenses $166,647 · Grants $50,000 · Revenue $241,167
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. Such work also included raising awareness of the importance of bipartisan antitrust enforcement, and working on app store age verification measures.

Expenses $166,663 · Grants $50,000 · Revenue $241,167
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.

Expenses $106,193 · Revenue $92,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Joel Thayer

President & Member of the Board

Total calculated

$284,450

From this org

$284,450

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$249,450

Bonus

$35,000

Other

$0

Deferred

$23,063

Nontaxable benefits

$0

Filer's total

$307,513
Nicholas Degani

Chief Strategist & Member of the Board

Total calculated

$94,688

From this org

$94,688

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

15
Kim Keenan

Chief Policy Officer & Member of the Board

Total calculated

$8,915

From this org

$8,915

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

1
Grace Koh

Member of the Board

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25
John Howes

Member of the Board

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

3 · Form 990 of other organizations
7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Schedule J, Part I, Line 7: Year-end bonus

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

National Center on Sexual Exploitation

$150,000

To support efforts pushing for age verification solutions at the app store levels in order to better protect children from harmful content and predatory people available in prominent apps and platforms accessed by youth through app stores. Activities will also include efforts to improve app store ratings and best practices.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2024
Filed: 7 May 2025
IRS schema version: 2024v5.0
Source object: 202541339349301789

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