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501(c)(3) organizations

  • Columbia UniversityColumbia University received its first royal charter on the 31st of October 1754, when George II of Great Britain signed King's College into existence on the…
  • University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago was born twice. The first institution, chartered in 1857 with land from Senator Stephen A. Douglas, collapsed under the weight of…
  • Nonprofit organizationNonprofit organizations collectively represent more than 1.5 million registered entities in the United States alone, a number large enough to dwarf the…
  • Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive holds more than one trillion web pages, a number its founder Brewster Kahle called a civilization-scale milestone when it was reached in…
  • OpenAIOpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT drew more than a million signups in its first five days after its free preview launched in November 2022.
  • American Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association was born in the Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1903, at a moment when political…
  • Freedom HouseFreedom House operates as a nonprofit out of Washington, D.C. For more than eight decades, it has weighed in on democracy, political freedom, and human…
  • ProPublicaProPublica made history in 2010 by becoming the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize. The winning story followed the exhausted doctors of a New…
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known worldwide as the IEEE, traces its founding to 1884, when electrical engineering was barely a…
  • Union of Concerned ScientistsThe Union of Concerned Scientists put up two billboards in August 2008. One stood near the airport in Denver, Colorado, and the other near the airport in…
  • Atlantic CouncilThe Atlantic Council began with a handshake between two former American statesmen. Christian Herter, once Secretary of State, and William L.
  • National Security ArchiveThe National Security Archive holds the distinction of being the largest repository of declassified U.S. government documents outside the federal government…
  • The Planetary SocietyThe Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by three people who believed ordinary citizens could shape the future of space exploration: Carl Sagan, Bruce…