[7] Reception to the organization was noted in a 2021 article in The New York Times, which highlighted Data for Progress's unusually fast rise to influence:[7]President Biden mentions it in private calls.

In the 2020 race for New York's 16th congressional district, Data for Progress was the sole public pollster to show challenger Jamaal Bowman lead incumbent Eliot Engel.

[9][10] In 2021, the firm conducted polling that found a majority of Democratic voters in Arizona would favor a primary challenge to Senator Kyrsten Sinema due to her opposition to some of the Biden administration's measures in Congress.

The article stated:Data for Progress's results have been on the more accurate side among its peers, though it relies entirely on so-called nonprobability methods [that] haven't gained full acceptance as an industry standard for political polls, at least not yet.

Julian Brave NoiseCat, the organization's vice president of policy & strategy, has been credited for leading a successful lobbying campaign to have Deb Haaland be appointed as Secretary of the Interior.

[26] 2019 also saw the launch of Data for Progress's "Fuck Gerry(mandering)" project in collaboration with Crooked Media, which served to assist Democrats running for the Virginia General Assembly.