About · c/o Values for America Foundation
A 501(c)(3) foundation building the civic operating system America never had.
The organization
“Tax-deductible. Citizen-funded.”
Values for America is a 501(c)(3) foundation registered in the United States. Our work is funded by tax-deductible donations, philanthropic grants, partnership agreements with civil-liberties organizations, and optional user fees for premium services. We do not accept funding from political parties, political action committees, candidate campaigns, or foreign entities.
A companion 501(c)(4) — Values for America Action — operates the Legislative Push Engine, FOIA campaigns, and Offensive Accountability Doctrine tools. Political advocacy activity is legally separated from the 501(c)(3) operations. Every dollar flowing between the two entities is disclosed publicly.
Legal structure
“Three entities — by design”
So a successful attack on one does not destroy the others.
Values for America Foundation
501(c)(3)Platform operations, Intelligence Layer data ingestion, the public accountability database. Protected as public-interest journalism and civic education. Tax-deductible donations flow here.
Values for America Action
501(c)(4)Legislative Push Engine, Offensive Doctrine tools, FOIA campaigns. Political-activity arm, separately funded, separately governed.
OpenOS Open-Source Foundation
Code custodianHolds the codebase, API documentation, and self-hosting guides. Anyone can fork and operate their own instance. The platform cannot be deplatformed because it is not dependent on any single operator.
What we ship
“Six modules, one spine”
OpenOS is the platform. Six integrated modules on one database with one constitutional spine. Every public official in America gets an accountability profile with mandatory data coverage transparency. Every citizen grievance gets processed by a 4-agent AI pipeline with a mandatory governance gate. Every policy proposal gets graded against five constitutional checks. Every bill gets a parallel citizen vote that reveals the gap between legislators and the people they represent.
The platform is free. Account creation is free. District verification is free. No advertising. No data resale. The citizen is the client — never the product.
How we're funded
“Disclosed at the source”
All funding sources above a disclosure threshold are published publicly. Any funder requesting editorial influence is refused and, per our own rules, reported as a finding.
Our commitments
“Four rules. No exceptions.”
We will not endorse candidates, parties, or movements.
The Constitutional Grading Engine applies the same standard to every actor in every party. Constitutional consistency is not political neutrality — it is the refusal to let team affiliation soften the record.
We will not sell, share, or license citizen data.
Not to political campaigns. Not to advertisers. Not to data brokers. Not to government agencies without a lawful subpoena. The citizen's data is theirs.
We will publish everything we find.
Including findings that benefit parties we might personally disagree with. The platform is not ours to tilt. The citizen decides.
We will survive attack.
SLAPP suits. Regulatory pressure. Deplatforming. Funding disruption. The federated architecture and multi-entity legal structure are all designed with one question in mind: what happens if they try to shut us down?
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