We're a small non-profit team building big (free & open-source) things.

Our Principles

OpenCongress

Our flagship project

A public resource website to track and understand the U.S. Congress. In only three years, we've grown to be the most-visited government transparency website in the U.S.

Try OpenCongress

OpenGovernment

Our next major project

We're taking OpenCongress
local: state, city, and more. Over the next year, OpenGovernment will cover all 50 U.S. states and
a dozen major cities.

We need your help.

Make Use of What We Do

Grab Our Free Tools

Let's build public knowledge about politics. Bloggers, educators, media publishers, web surfers, and issue-based groups of all types are encouraged to re-use our open data and content. Link to our pages, embed our widgets, edit our wiki, call our API, and more.

Remix Our Open Code

We're open-source to the core, contributors of code back to the commons, evangelists for open standards, believers in free culture, and activists for liberation of public data. See our development wish list, join our discussions, check out our source code, and more.

Support Our Public-Mission Work

We're a small non-profit team building big things. We have a good start, but really, we've just begun -- with more resources, our family of websites can make enable more powerful civic engagement. Your support can help build amazing new open-source tools. Get in touch.

Stay Updated!

PPF Blog

Coming soon: the PPF blog, covering issues of government transparency, civic engagement, net neutrality, fighting systemic corruption, and comprehensive electoral reform. Until we've launched, to stay in touch, subscribe to email updates using the form above or follow us on Twitter.

Our sibling non-profit is the Participatory Culture Foundation,
working for a fairer, more open, and more democratic media space.

See what we're fighting for
 

Some of our Allies

Some of our Data Partners