For funders, partners & oversight
Public-interest infrastructure for understanding Congress.
Civic Herald turns the public record into plain language. Government data goes in; plain language comes out, checked by human reviewers and bound by 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. The bar for neutrality is already set by the field’s leading institutions, and 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 panel, 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, with provenance on every claim.
Money & depth
Campaign-finance integration; stock-trade disclosures; deeper money-and-ties analysis.
State expansion
Add state legislatures from open legislative data, with the same provenance rules.
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.
A transparency product can’t afford even the appearance of a lean. Our defense is visible balance and full 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 reviews or influences 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 panels
Equal numbers from left, center, and right. Each rates their own lean and reviews blind.
Government-data discipline
Official sources first. Issue categories follow the government's own.
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. Use the form, or write to us directly: partners@civicherald.app