Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Erika's quick-start guide to research nonprofits

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The Smart Family Fund provides angel philanthropy funding to early-stage nonprofit organizations with the potential for positive, scalable impact that have not yet built the evidence base or… | Shawnta Jackson, MPH | 36 comments

The Smart Family Fund provides angel philanthropy funding to early-stage nonprofit organizations with the potential for positive, scalable impact that have not yet built the evidence base or sustainability model needed for larger growth funding. Eligible applicants must be U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations in good standing with the IRS that can clearly explain how they will measure effectiveness, quantify impact, and demonstrate how their approach is distinct from other organizations in the field. Applications are submitted through the “Send Us a Pitch” portal and require organizational information and a one-page elevator pitch aligned with the fund’s mission. Funding amounts are not publicly listed. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eYNhqsVB | 36 comments on LinkedIn

How the IRS Was Gutted — ProPublica

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

With open data, you finally get what you’ve paid for all these years

If you pay your taxes, you pay for research. Governments take your money and distribute it to their own departments (like NASA and DARPA), to universities and nonprofits in the form of grants, and to corporations in the form of subsidies. Up until no...

CivicPulse

CivicPulse is a nonpartisan nonprofit seeking to promote more effective local and state governance through improved access to reliable data and research.

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

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Data Transfer Initiative

Home page for the Data Transfer Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting data transfers

The Metric Media network runs more than 1,200 local news sites. Here are some of the non-profits funding them.

<p>This is the first part of a two-part investigation. The second piece can be found here. As local news outlets across the US struggle to stay afloat, pop-up newsrooms are filling the void. Organizations with ties to political parties, special-interest groups, and lobbyists have emerged under the guise of news. One of the biggest such […]</p>

Give Lively - A Free Fundraising Platform For Nonprofits

We built and support a powerful and practical fundraising platform that is free for nonprofits and intuitively easy to use for donors. Sign up today for Fundraising Pages, Text-to-Donate, Peer-to-Peer, Event Ticketing, and more!

Open North – Building trust in data, for the common good

Open North is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the common good. Working alongside governments and civic-minded organizations of all sizes, we provide data expertise to enhance decision-making, drive innovation, optimize public and civic services, and address society's most pressing challenges. Our work focuses on building the capacity of organizations to make better decisions about managing their data so that it is useful, actionable, secure, and trustworthy throughout its entire lifecycle.

SemRepo.org

SemRepo is a large-scale RDF knowledge graph of GitHub repositories linked to scientific research. SemRepo captures fine-grained repository-level metadata (e.g., contributors, issues, programming languages) and interlinks this with external scholarly knowledge graphs: repositories to publications in LPWC, repository authors to their profiles in SemOpenAlex, and research artifacts (e.g., datasets, experiments) are linked via MLSea.

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica

Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.

Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data

We build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.