A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate. “It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”
When a nonprofit is in the news, people turn to our Nonprofit Explorer to check its finances. This week, we added a “trending” feature that shows which organizations lots of people are looking up. Here are some recent patterns that have emerged:
When Congress held hearings in December 2023 to investigate allegations of campus antisemitism, they brought in the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. At the same time, ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer got surges of traffic to pages for allthreeuniversities.
For most of July, the Heritage Foundation was the most-viewed organization in our Nonprofit Explorer as ongoing reporting dug into its controversial Project 2025 playbook.
The most enduringly popular page on our Nonprofit Explorer is the Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation. It’s been the most-viewed charity for 120 days in the past year.
The new feature will list the top eight organizations in terms of unique views, and it will update multiple times a day. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do. Seeing searches increase can be a great signal that it might be time to go digging into a nonprofit further.
