Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,240,448 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,878,291). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $892k
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Center for Public Integrity does
Mission
The Center for Public Integrity inspires change using investigative reporting that reveals the causes and effects of inequality. Discriminatory systems in employment, housing, health care, education and access to democracy affect people based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, immigration status and income. Our data-driven and narrative journalism holds powerful interests accountable, investigates solutions and illustrates the historical context of inequality in america.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In 2024, cpi laid off a large number of staff and reduced our publishing cadence for financial reasons.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Program service accomplishments: The Center for Public Integrity published dozens of investigations in partnership with newsrooms across the country, as well as several short stories and graphics. The major areas of investigations were as follows:-the environment-money and democracy-poverty, opportunity and inequality
$2,181,107 spent$25,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,181,107.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.2M to $1.3M (−75%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Paul Cheung
CEO part year
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 42 funders, grant income fell $5.7M → $2.7M.
22 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 20% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY?
- THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,240,448 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,878,291). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $30,240,448 in grants to THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,878,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 114 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing