Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress was created in 2003 as a Democratic alternative to conservative think tanks such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).Robert Dreyfuss, [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/idea-factory-democrats/ "An Idea Factory for the Democrats"], The Nation March 1, 2004.

Citing Podesta's influence in the Obama administration, Michael Scherer in a November 2008 article in Time stated that "not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway".Scherer, Michael (November 21, 2008). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081128174055/http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1861305,00.html Inside Obama's Idea Factory in Washington]", Time. Retrieved 2009-12-02.{{undue weight inline|date=November 2020}} In 2011, the Washington Post's Jason Horowitz described the Center for American Progress as "Washington's leading liberal think tank", and "an incessant advocate for a broad progressive agenda and as such, a sharp thorn in President Obama's left side."{{Cite news|last=Horowitz|first=Jason|date=November 3, 2011|title=Think-tank post puts spotlight on veteran Democratic operative Neera Tanden|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house/think-tank-post-puts-spotlight-on-veteran-democratic-operative-neera-tanden/2011/11/01/gIQAn6fpjM_story.html|access-date=February 1, 2020|newspaper=The Washington Post}} Sarah Rosen Wartell, a co-founder and former executive vice-president of the CAP, was later named president of the Urban Institute{{cite web|last=Institute|first=Urban|date=December 20, 2011|title=Sarah Rosen Wartell, Think Tank Executive and Housing Finance Expert, to be the Urban Institute's Third President|url=http://webarchive.urban.org/publications/901469.html|website=webarchive.urban.org}}

In 2021, Politico described CAP as "the most influential think tank of the Biden era."{{Cite news|last1=Korecki|first1=Natasha|date=June 30, 2021|title=The most influential think tank of the Biden era has a new leader|work=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/center-for-american-progress-new-leader-497167|access-date=July 1, 2021|quote=Patrick Gaspard, a longtime Democratic operative who served most recently as president of the George Soros-run Open Society Foundations, will take over as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.}}

As of 2025, CAP's board of directors includes Democratic politician Julian Castro, Sandler Foundation president Steve Daetz, businessman Andrew Hauptman, former Bain Capital partner Kristin Mugford, CAP founder John Podesta, billionaire hedge fund manager Donald Sussman, CAP president and CEO Neera Tanden, and Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss.{{cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.americanprogress.org/about-us/c3-board/ |website=Center for American Progress |language=en |date=26 March 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Kenneth |title=Swiss Billionaire Quietly Becomes Influential Force Among Democrats (Published 2021) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/us/politics/hansjorg-wyss-money-democrats.html |access-date=27 March 2025 |publisher=The New York Times |date=3 May 2021 |language=en}}

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ThinkProgress, active from 2005 to 2019, was an American progressive news website affiliated with the Center for American Progress but with editorial independence. In September 2019, ThinkProgress was shut down when CAP could not find a publisher willing to take it over. The news site was then "folded into CAP's online presence" to "focus on analysis from CAP scholars and CAP Action staff."{{cite news |date=September 6, 2019 |title=ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-a-top-progressive-news-site-is-shutting-down |work=Daily Beast |access-date=September 6, 2019}}{{Cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/460268-liberal-news-site-thinkprogress-shutting-down |title=Liberal news site ThinkProgress shutting down |last=Frazin |first=Rachel |work=The Hill |quote=Liberal news website ThinkProgress is shutting down after its parent organization said it was unable to find a new publisher for the site. |date=September 6, 2019 |access-date=March 31, 2020}}

Generation Progress was launched in February 2005 as "the youth arm of the Center for American Progress". According to the organization, Generation Progress partners with over a million millennials.{{cite web|url=http://genprogress.org/about/about-us/|title=About Us|publisher=Generation Progress|access-date=20 July 2016|archive-date=July 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709033714/http://genprogress.org/about/about-us/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/center-for-american-progress-generation-progress-094225|title=CAP to unveil 'Generation Progress'|work=Politico|date=15 July 2013|access-date=20 July 2016}}

Formerly known simply as the American Progress Action Fund, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action) is a "sister advocacy organization"{{cite web|url=https://www.americanprogressaction.org/about/capaf-mission/|title=About the Center for American Progress Action Fund|publisher=Center for American Progress Action Fund|access-date=20 July 2016}} and is organizationally and financially separate from CAP, although they share many staff and a physical address. Politico wrote in April 2011 that it "openly runs political advocacy campaigns, and plays a central role in the Democratic Party's infrastructure, and the new reporting staff down the hall isn't exactly walled off from that message machine, nor does it necessarily keep its distance from liberal groups organizing advocacy campaigns targeting conservatives".{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/cap-news-team-takes-aim-at-gop-053053|title=Center for American Progress news team takes aim at GOP|work=Politico|date=13 April 2011|access-date=20 July 2016}} Whereas CAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, CAP Action is a 501(c)(4),{{cite web|url=https://www.americanprogressaction.org/about/state-notices/|title=State Notices|publisher=Center for American Progress Action Fund|access-date=20 July 2016}} allowing it to devote more funds to lobbying."[http://genius.americanprogress.org/give/ Add to the Collective Genius] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229085328/http://genius.americanprogress.org/give/ |date=December 29, 2006 }}." Retrieved December 27, 2006. In 2003, George Soros promised to financially support the organization by donating up to $3 million.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040112233906/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-01-12 |title=Soros' Deep Pockets vs. Bush |access-date=2007-10-04 | newspaper=The Washington Post}} CAP Action is headed by Neera Tanden.{{cite web|url=https://www.americanprogressaction.org/about/staff/|title=American Progress Staff|publisher=Center for American Progress Action Fund|access-date=20 July 2016}}

File:Thomas Perez and Neera Tanden, December 2014.jpg and Neera Tanden, December 2014]]

Launched in 2017, "The Moscow Project" is one of its initiatives.{{Cite web|last=Debenedetti|first=Gabriel|title=Liberal group launches 'Moscow Project' to pressure Trump|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-russia-moscow-project-235286|access-date=2021-10-08|website=POLITICO|date=February 22, 2017 |language=en}}

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth, also known simply as "Equitable Growth", is a grantmaking and research organization founded in 2013 and "housed at the Center for American Progress".{{Cite news|url=https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/podesta-starting-a-think-tank-on-inequality/|title=Podesta Starting a Think Tank on Inequality|last=Leonhardt|first=David|work=Economix Blog|date=November 6, 2013 |access-date=2018-08-22|language=en}} Equitable Growth funds academic research in economics and other social sciences, with a particular interest in government's role in the distribution of economic growth and the role of public perceptions of fairness in shaping government policy.{{Cite web|url=http://ceg.berkeley.edu/|title=Center for Equitable Growth|website=ceg.berkeley.edu|access-date=2018-08-22}}

Science Progress was an internet publication about progressive science and technology policy. Science Progress was a project of the Center for American Progress. Its mission was "to improve the understanding of science among policymakers and other thought leaders and to develop exciting, progressive ideas about innovation in science and technology for the United States in the 21st Century."{{cite web|url=https://scienceprogress.org/about/|title=About Science Progress|website=scienceprogress.org|access-date=April 15, 2019|archive-date=June 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612070256/https://scienceprogress.org/about/|url-status=dead}} It began publication on 4 October 2007,{{cite web|url=http://scienceprogress.org/2008/10/a-year-of-science-progress/|title=A Year of Science Progress|publisher=Science Progress|date=7 October 2008|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-date=August 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808082107/http://scienceprogress.org/2008/10/a-year-of-science-progress/|url-status=dead}} the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1. Content on the web site included news, in-depth essays, and text- and audio-based interviews. The Science Progress staff included Editor-In-Chief Jonathan D. Moreno.{{cite web|url=http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g358/p8145264|title=Jonathan D Moreno, Ph.D.|publisher=Perelman School of Medicine|access-date=25 July 2016}}

In July 2018, the Center for American Progress recruited former Obama staffer and National Council on Disability executive director Rebecca Cokley to lead its new project focused on disability rights advocacy.{{Cite web|title='Disability Rights Are Civil Rights': Inside the CAP's New Disability Justice Initiative|url=https://psmag.com/social-justice/inside-caps-new-disability-justice-initiative|last=Perry|first=David M.|website=Pacific Standard|date=August 14, 2018 |language=en|access-date=2020-05-17}} Senator Tammy Duckworth spoke at the first event announcing creation of the new project, which is housed within CAP's Poverty to Prosperity Program. The Disability Justice Initiative became the first such project at a mainstream public policy advocacy organization not already focused on disability.{{Cite web|title=Why It's Time the Launch the Disability Justice Initiative|url=https://talkpoverty.org/2018/07/25/time-launch-disability-justice-initiative/|date=2018-07-25|website=Talk Poverty|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}

The Center for American Progress has come out in opposition to the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025,"{{Cite web |last=Henkel |first=Clayton |date=2024-08-06 |title=Colin Seeberger of the Center for American Progress discusses the controversial Project 2025 • NC Newsline |url=https://ncnewsline.com/2024/08/05/colin-seeberger-of-the-center-for-american-progress-discusses-the-controversial-project-2025/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=NC Newsline |language=en-US}} releasing detailed critiques of the proposed policies.{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-09-23 |title=A Dangerous Vision for the Presidency {{!}} Brennan Center for Justice |url=https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dangerous-vision-presidency |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.brennancenter.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Henkel |first=Clayton |date=2024-08-06 |title=Colin Seeberger of the Center for American Progress discusses the controversial Project 2025 • NC Newsline |url=https://ncnewsline.com/2024/08/05/colin-seeberger-of-the-center-for-american-progress-discusses-the-controversial-project-2025/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=NC Newsline |language=en-US}}

In 2017, CAP opposed Bernie Sanders' single-payer health plan.{{Cite web |title=Democrats Against Single Payer |url=https://jacobin.com/2017/03/single-payer-health-care-medicare-obamacare-sanders-clinton-democrats |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}} Critics said that this was because of funding from the health care industry, such as the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, the Health Care Service Corporation and America's Health Insurance Plans, who would be eliminated under Sanders' plan.{{Cite news |last=Borosage |first=Robert L. |date=2019-04-19 |title=The Democratic Primary May Get Ugly, but It’s a Necessary Fight |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-democratic-primary-may-get-ugly-but-its-a-necessary-fight/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}{{Cite web |title=CAP Is Spreading Disinformation About Bernie’s Health Care Plan |url=https://jacobin.com/2019/12/center-for-american-progress-disinformation-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}} In 2018, the center proposed an alternative to single-payer that would offer patients and employers a choice between government coverage and private insurance.{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/23/17041638/single-payer-medicare-extra-health|title=Democrats are shifting toward single-payer. Here's proof.|first=Sarah|last=Kliff|date=February 23, 2018|website=Vox}}

In 2020, CAP president Neera Tanden came out in support of "universal health care".{{Cite web |title=Center for American Progress CEO says Dems will have debate on single-payer health care ahead of 2020 |url=https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/414263-center-for-american-progress-president-says-dems-will-have-debate-on-single/ |website=The Hill}} The organization has also proposed "Medicare Extra", which CAP says would add 35 million people to the insurance rolls while cutting U.S. health expenditures by over $300 billion annually.{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Ezra |date=2019-07-23 |title=How 'Medicare Extra' gets to universal coverage without single-payer |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20699958/medicare-extra-center-american-progress-single-payer-health-reform |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=Vox |language=en-US}}

In October 2016, the Intercept reported that United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba praised "a [https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/17125124/MiddleEast-report-print.pdf CAP report] released [in October 2016] that advocates for continued cooperation with Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates."{{cite news |last1=Jilani |first1=Zaid |title=At Hillary Clinton's Favorite Think Tank, a Doubling Down on Anti-Iran, Pro-Saudi Policy |url=https://theintercept.com/2016/10/26/at-hillary-clintons-favorite-think-tank-a-doubling-down-on-anti-iran-pro-saudi-policy/ |work=The Intercept |date=October 26, 2016}}

In January 2019, two CAP staffers were fired after an investigation concerning the leaking of an internal email exchange involving discussions over the phrasing of CAP's response to the murder of The Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi. CAP released a statement noting that while investigating the leaks, this was not the cause for the firings.{{cite news |title=Amid Internal Investigation Over Leaks to Media, the Center for American Progress Fires Two Staffers |url=https://theintercept.com/2019/01/16/center-for-american-progress-cap-uae-leak/ |first1= Ryan |last1=Grim |first2=Clio |last2=Chang |work=The Intercept |date=January 16, 2019}}

Some open government groups, such as the Sunlight Foundation and the Campaign Legal Center, criticized the center's failure to disclose its contributors, particularly because it was so influential to the Obama administration.{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16318.html |title=Where's transparency of Podesta group? |first1=Ben |last1=Smith |first2=Chris |last2=Frates |work=Politico |date= December 9, 2008 |access-date=2011-07-07}}{{Cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29krugman.html |title=March of the Peacocks |last=Krugman|first= Paul|date=January 28, 2010| work=The New York Times|access-date=January 30, 2010}} CAP's website states that corporate donors are not allowed to remain anonymous.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanprogress.org/c3-our-supporters/|title=Our Supporters|website=Center for American Progress|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-06}} Nathan Robinson, writing in 2018 for Current Affairs wrote that CAP "continues to conceal the identities of many of its largest donors." He also criticized CAP for receiving "shady donations" and for a grant of $200,000 to the American Enterprise Institute in 2018.{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Nathan J. |title=Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying The Left? |url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/12/why-is-the-center-for-american-progress-betraying-the-left |access-date=21 December 2019 |work=Current Affairs |date=13 December 2018}}

CAP has received significant funding from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a pro-austerity think tank associated with billionaire investment banker Peter G. Peterson.{{Cite web |title=Center for American Progress {{!}} Peter G. Peterson Foundation |url=https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants-and-projects/center-for-american-progress |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=www.pgpf.org |language=en}}

CAP was criticized in 2012 by several Jewish organizations after its employees, Zaid Jilani and Ali Gharib, "publicly used language that could be construed as anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic".{{cite news|last=Wallsten|first=Peter |title =Center for American Progress, group tied to Obama, under fire from Israel advocates | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/center-for-america-progress-group-tied-to-obama-accused-of-anti-semitic-language/2012/01/17/gIQAcrHXAQ_story.html | newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 24, 2012|date=January 20, 2012}}{{Cite web|title=E-mail reveals anti-Semitism at US think tank|url=https://www.jpost.com/international/e-mail-reveals-anti-semitism-at-us-think-tank|access-date=2022-02-04|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|language=en-US}} Bloggers associated with CAP published several posts using phrases such as "apartheid" and "Israel-firsters", which the American Jewish Committee described as "hateful" and called on CAP to disassociate themselves from these statements.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=251699|title=NGOs slam 'anti-Semitic' US think tank comments| first=Benjamin|last=Weinthal| work=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=16 August 2016}} The latter phrase, "Israel-firsters", which was used in reference to US supporters of Israel, was also criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and described as antisemitic, including by Faiz Shakir, then the vice president of CAP. Officials at CAP said the "inappropriate" language came only in personal tweets—not on CAP's website or its ThinkProgress blog. The Tweets were deleted, and the authors apologized.

In 2015, however, other writers criticized CAP for what they saw as censorship of reasonable comments critical of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and other policies. Based on leaked emails, columnist Glenn Greenwald, for example, wrote that CAP had deleted references to Israeli settlement policies in reports by their staffers.{{cite news|url=https://theintercept.com/2015/11/05/leaked-emails-from-pro-clinton-group-reveal-censorship-of-staff-on-israel-aipac-pandering-warped-militarism/|title=Leaked Emails From Pro-Clinton Group Reveal Censorship of Staff on Israel, AIPAC Pandering, Warped Militarism|last=Greenwald|first=Glenn|date=November 5, 2015|work=The Intercept}}{{cite web | last=Gharib | first=Ali | title=Why Is the Center for American Progress Hosting Benjamin Netanyahu? | website=The Nation | date=2015-10-28 | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-center-for-american-progress-hosting-benjamin-netanyahu/ | access-date=2017-04-08 | archive-date=April 9, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409113525/https://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-center-for-american-progress-hosting-benjamin-netanyahu/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/12/center_for_american_progress_hosts_netanyahu|title=Center for American Progress Hosts Netanyahu as Leaked Emails Show Group Censored Staff on Israel|last=Shaikh|first=Nermeen|date=November 12, 2015|work=Democracy Now!}}{{cite news|url=https://www.alternet.org/2011/12/has_the_israel_lobby_gone_too_far/|title=Has the Israel Lobby Gone Too Far?|last=Holland|first=Joshua|date=December 16, 2011|work=AlterNet}}

Greenwald and others also criticized CAP for hosting a meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the same time, Netanyahu was hostile to the Obama Administration.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/09/should-the-center-for-american-progress-host-a-speech-by-the-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu/|title=Center for American Progress under fire for hosting speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu|last=Mufson|first=Steven|date=9 November 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=28 July 2016}} Greenwald described CAP's positions as "servitude to AIPAC and pandering to Netanyahu." Eighteen organizations and over one hundred academics signed an open letter, circulated by Jewish Voice for Peace and the Arab American Institute, against the meeting. 26,300 people signed a petition opposing the meeting.

After the release of the Podesta emails, the Center for American Progress was criticized for emails sent between John Halpin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Jennifer Palmieri, a Hillary Clinton campaign team member.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/12/wikileaks-emails-show-clinton-spokeswoman-joking-about-catholics-and-evangelicals|title=WikiLeaks emails appear to show Clinton spokeswoman joking about Catholics and evangelicals|first=Sarah|last=Pulliam Bailey|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 25, 2018|quote=The latest batch of documents published by WikiLeaks appears to show Hillary Clinton's campaign communications director joking with a confidant about Catholics and evangelicals in emails sent to John Podesta, chairman of Clinton’s campaign.}} The Washington Post characterized the comments as "joking"; Kellyanne Conway and others called them anti-Catholic attacks.{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/13/politics/religious-leaders-hillary-clinton-campaign-wikileaks|title=First on CNN: Religious leaders slam Clinton campaign over emails |first1=Dana|last1=Bash|first2=Daniella|last2=Diaz|date=October 13, 2016 |publisher=CNN|access-date=October 19, 2016}}

In April 2018, BuzzFeed News reported that female employees of CAP had complained of sexual harassment by CAP employee Benton Strong to human resources and management.{{cite news |date=2018-04-23 |title=Inside The Divisive Fight Over How A Top Progressive Think Tank Handled Sexual Harassment |last=Mimms |first=Sarah |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/inside-a-divisive-fight-over-how-a-top-progressive-think|work=BuzzFeed |access-date=2019-02-20}} Two anonymous employees alleged retaliation for reporting Strong's behavior,{{cite news | date=2018-04-24 | title=Neera Tanden Says She Is "Deeply Sorry" Following A BuzzFeed News Report About Sexual Harassment At The Center For American Progress | last=Mimms | first=Sarah | url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/center-for-american-progress-head-says-she-is-deeply-sorry | work=BuzzFeed | access-date=2021-02-22}} one of them including her allegations in an exit memo when leaving CAP. However, CAP maintains that no retaliation occurred, and an internal investigation concluded the same. In response to the first complaint, Strong received a warning from CAP management. After the second complaint, he was suspended for three days without pay.{{cite news | date=2018-04-24 | first=Isolde | last=Raftery | title=Mayor Murray spokesman has abuse, sexual harassment allegations in his past, too | url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/mayor-murray-spokesman-has-abuse-sexual-harassment-allegations-his-past-too | work=KUOW | access-date=2021-02-22}} He was already resigning to take up a position elsewhere, and these three days coincided with the final three days of his employment with CAP.

After the publication of the BuzzFeed story, CAP president Neera Tanden unintentionally used the first name of one of the anonymous women during an all-staff meeting to address their handling of the sexual harassment allegations.{{cite news |date=2018-04-25 |title=The Center For American Progress Staff Was Shocked After Neera Tanden Named The Anonymous Harassment Victim In An All-Staff Meeting |last=Mimms |first=Sarah |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/center-for-american-progress-staff-shocked-after-neera|work=BuzzFeed |access-date=2019-02-20}}

In February 2020, The New York Times reported that the center had removed reporting of New York City police surveillance of Muslim communities from a 2015 report, allegedly out of deference to Michael Bloomberg, who had given the center grants worth $1.5 million. Yasmine Taeb, an author of the report, said that they were instructed to remove the chapter or make dramatic revisions, alleging this was "because of how it was going to be perceived by Mayor Bloomberg." CAP officials disputed her account, characterizing the changes as editorial decisions: detailed discussion of NYC policing was off-topic because the report had been "commissioned to examine right-wing groups targeting Muslims with explicit bigotry and conspiracy theories." Bloomberg told The New York Times reporters he was unaware of any such dispute at CAP; in 2017, he contributed an additional $400,000.{{cite news |last1=Burns |first1=Alexander |last2=Russell |first2=Kari |title=Bloomberg's Billions: How the Candidate Built an Empire of Influence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/15/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-spending.html |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=The New York Times|date=February 15, 2020}}

The Center for American Progress is a 501(c)(3) organization under the US Internal Revenue Code. In 2014, CAP received $45 million from a variety of sources, including individuals, foundations, labor unions, and corporations.{{cite news|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300126510|title=Center for American Progress 990 Form|work=Propublica Nonprofit Explorer|access-date=May 22, 2017}} From 2003 to 2007, CAP received about $15 million in grants from 58 foundations.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/politics/07podesta.html | first=Charlie | last=Savage | title=John Podesta, Shepherd of a Government in Exile | work=The New York Times | date=6 November 2008 | access-date=25 July 2016}} Major individual donors include George Soros, Peter Lewis, Steve Bing, and Herb and Marion Sandler. The center receives undisclosed sums from corporate donors. In December 2013, the organization released a list of its corporate donors, which include Walmart, CitiGroup, Wells Fargo, defense contractor Northrop Grumman, America's Health Insurance Plans, and Eli Lilly and Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/ |title=Our Supporters |access-date=11 November 2014 |website=Center for American Progress |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112010309/https://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/ |archive-date=November 12, 2014 |df=mdy }}

In 2015, CAP released a partial list of its donors, which included 28 anonymous donors accounting for at least $5 million in contributions. Named donors included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, each giving between $500,000 and $999,999. CAP's top donors include Walmart and Citigroup, each of which has given between $100,000 and $499,000.{{cite news|last1=Berman |first1=Dan |title=Liberal Group Claims Transparency but Keeps Some Donors' Names Secret |url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/liberal-group-claims-transparency-but-keeps-some-donors-names-secret-20150121 |access-date=4 February 2015 |work=National Journal |date=January 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183431/http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/liberal-group-claims-transparency-but-keeps-some-donors-names-secret-20150121 |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |df=mdy }}{{cite news|last1=Sargent|first1=Greg |title=Center for American Progress, poised to wield influence over 2016, reveals its top donors |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/01/21/center-for-american-progress-poised-to-wield-influence-over-2016-reveals-its-top-donors | access-date=4 February 2015| newspaper =The Washington Post|date=January 21, 2015}} Other large CAP donors include Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Google, Time Warner, and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.{{cite news |title=Corporate Influence at the Center for American Progress? |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/corporate-influence-center-american-progress/ |work=The Nation |date=May 30, 2013 |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114003936/https://www.thenation.com/article/corporate-influence-center-american-progress/ |url-status=dead }}

As of 2024, corporate donors to CAP included Google, Apple and NBC Universal.{{cite web |url=https://www.americanprogress.org/c3-our-supporters/ |title=Our Supporters | access-date=23 September 2024| publisher=Center for American Progress}}

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