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Public access to information is vital for creating and maintaining accountability and effectiveness in local government, yet local newsrooms like ours work under considerable financial strain. Our investigations and narrative productions are often years long, relying on a sustained quality of attention and careful relationship cultivation. The creation of our groundbreaking and widely-used data project, CPDP.co, for example, took years of investing in legal work, public records requests, and web development. That sustained commitment paid off. Today, seven years after its launch, the site remains a national model for the power of data transparency and a launching point for our reporting work, including our ongoing efforts to expand the site and accompanying reporting on the police to more cities in Illinois.

The Invisible Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL.
EIN: 47-3551981

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Invisible Institute
P.O. Box 15459
Chicago, IL 60615

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Please contact a member of our development team at [email protected] before making a stock donation. Please ensure that your brokerage shares your full name, mailing address, email address, and the stock name and number of shares donated so we can process and acknowledge your gift. Invisible Institute only accepts donations of publicly traded marketable securities.

Include Invisible Institute in Your Will

With a planned gift, you will help sustain groundbreaking human rights reporting. If you would like to name Invisible Institute in your will or estate plan, we should be named as: Invisible Institute, a nonprofit organization (Tax ID: 47-3551981), located at P.O. Box 15459, Chicago, IL 60615. If you have questions about planned giving, please contact a member of our Development Team at [email protected].

Designate Invisible Institute as a Qualified Charity to Receive Distributions from an IRA

Contact your IRA administrator to determine if you qualify. If so, you can instruct your administrator to transfer funds to Invisible Institute (Tax ID: 47-3551981). Help us credit your gift and thank you by having your IRA administrator include your full name and mailing address on the gift, and have your administrator note that the transfer is an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution