For funders, partners & oversight
Public-interest infrastructure for an informed citizenry.
Civic Herald turns the public record into plain-language understanding — government data in, clarity out — with human review guarding the integrity and a strict non-advocacy charter. We inform; we never advocate.
The opportunity
There’s a funded field for exactly this.
Nonpartisan civic-data tools are a recognized, funded category — and the bar for neutrality is already set by the field’s leading institutions. We’re built to meet it.
- $430M+
- invested in civic-tech since 2011
- Day 1
- grant-eligible via fiscal sponsorship
- 33·33·34
- balanced reviewer cohort, by design
Federal first, then wider and deeper.
Phase 1 · now
Federal MVP
Bill spine, values onboarding, briefings, scorecards, alignment, alerts, and the chat agent — provenance baked in.
Money & depth
Campaign-finance integration; stock-trade disclosures; deeper money-and-ties analysis.
State expansion
Add state legislatures via open legislative data, on the same provenance discipline.
Local & direct
City and county councils and citizen-voted ballot measures.
Why your name is safe with us
We protect your neutrality as hard as our own.
Perceived lean is asymmetrically risky for a transparency product. Our defense is visible balance and radical self-disclosure — copied from the institutions that set the standard.
Public donor disclosure
Every donor above $5,000 listed; anonymous funding capped.
Editorial firewall
No funder is accorded any right of review or influence over our analyses.
No directed money
We refuse funding from parties, candidates, and PACs.
Cross-spectrum funding
We pursue visible left- and right-of-center backing.
Balanced reviewer cohorts
Equal left / center / right reviewers, self-rated and reviewing blind.
Government-data discipline
Official sources first; taxonomy anchored to government categories.
The company we want to keep.
Funders we're building toward
Knight Foundation
Informed & engaged communities.
Hewlett U.S. Democracy
Nonpartisan support for governing institutions.
Carnegie Corporation
Strengthening U.S. democracy.
McGovern Foundation
AI and data science for social good.
Fiscal sponsor / accelerator
Multiplier
Fast, full-service fiscal sponsorship.
Fast Forward
The tech-nonprofit accelerator.
Aspen Policy Academy
Nonpartisan policy venue.
Data & academic allies
Congress.gov / GovInfo
The authoritative federal source.
GovTrack · OpenSecrets
Open legislative and money-in-politics data.
USAFacts
The model for government-data-only discipline.
Comparative Agendas Project
The scholarly issue taxonomy.
Start a conversation
Let’s talk about funding, fit, or oversight.
We’re glad to walk any prospective funder, fiscal sponsor, or data partner through the methodology and the guardrails. Reach us directly at partners@civicherald.app.