Help us build the data and evidence infrastructure America needs.

The Data Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit and trusted intermediary working to make government data and evidence more accessible, reliable, and useful. We take an ecosystem approach that puts practitioners and decision-makers at the center while engaging every stakeholder — Congress, federal agencies, the private sector, researchers, and the public — to change how the country builds, governs, and uses its data. The time has come to move past a status quo where evidence-building is slow, incomplete, and treated as compliance, and where critical data systems are left unprotected. We are building the opposite: durable, resilient, AI-ready infrastructure that survives political transitions and turns America's data from a vulnerability into a competitive advantage.

Join funders including Arnold Ventures, the Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Grantham Foundation, Crown Family Philanthropies, the Lumina Foundation, the Strada Education Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and ImpactAssets in our mission to make evidence-based governance sustainable, trustworthy, and built for the AI era.

We are proud to work alongside our long-time partners and Data Coalition members — including AWS, SAP, Donnelley Financial Solutions, data.world, USAFacts, and Deloitte — who bring the private-sector perspective that keeps this work grounded and practical.

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Together, we can harness the power of data and evidence to make government work better for everyone. To learn more about how you can get involved, contact President and CEO Nick Hart.