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The Digital Progress Institute

EIN 87-1330450 Washington, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,069,920
Expenses 2024
$899,302

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

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
1255 Union St NE 7th Floor

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,069,920
    Expenses
    $899,302
    Contributions
    $1,059,000
    Grants paid
    $150,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,395,800
    Expenses
    $1,118,951
    Contributions
    $1,395,000
    Grants paid
    $40,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $325,000
    Expenses
    $172,037
    Contributions
    $325,000
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

  • National Center on Sexual Exploitation

    $150,000

    2024 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.

  • Ethics and Public Policy Center

    $30,000

    2023 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.

  • Alice's Kids

    $10,000

    2023 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.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.