About AFNPT
Americans For Non-Profit Transparency is built to bring the United States of America's people pure nonprofit transparency through any means necessary.
Our Mission
AFNPT exists to close the transparency gap between American nonprofits and the public they serve.
Every year, Americans donate over $500 billion to nonprofit organizations. These organizations enjoy tax-exempt status — meaning they operate with the public's trust and, effectively, with the public's money. Yet the vast majority of donors never read a single IRS Form 990, never verify whether their contributions were used for the stated charitable purpose, and never discover the complex financial structures, shell entities, and undisclosed relationships that can hide behind the shield of tax exemption.
This is not acceptable in a functioning democracy. The nonprofit sector — encompassing over 1.8 million tax-exempt organizations — represents one of the largest segments of the American economy, yet it operates with less public scrutiny than publicly traded corporations. While the SEC requires quarterly financial disclosures and real-time insider trading reports from public companies, nonprofit organizations are only required to file an annual IRS Form 990 — and even that filing is frequently opaque, filled with boilerplate language, and difficult for ordinary citizens to interpret.
AFNPT changes that. We are building the most advanced nonprofit transparency platform in the United States — powered by artificial intelligence, interactive investigation tools, and an unwavering commitment to sourcing every claim from publicly available government records.
What We Do
Forensic 990 Analysis
We dissect IRS Form 990 filings line by line — Schedule I grants, Schedule F foreign activities, Schedule R related organizations, compensation data, and program service descriptions — to identify potential inconsistencies between an organization's stated mission and its actual financial behavior.
FARA Cross-Referencing
We cross-reference nonprofit activities with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database to identify connections between domestic tax-exempt organizations and entities registered as agents of foreign governments.
Corporate Filing Deep Dives
We examine state corporate filings (Nevada SilverFlume, Delaware Division of Corporations, California Secretary of State) to trace shell entities, registered agents, and beneficial ownership structures connected to nonprofit expenditures.
Public Education
We publish educational content, host workshops, and develop AI-powered tools to teach ordinary Americans how to read nonprofit filings, understand tax-exempt law, and hold organizations accountable for how they use charitable donations.
AI-Powered Investigation Tools
Our Agent America AI system allows anyone to query hundreds of FARA documents, financial records, and connection databases in natural language — making investigative research accessible to everyone, not just journalists and lawyers.
Interactive Mapping
Our investigation maps visualize the complex webs of entities, people, money flows, and foreign connections that would be nearly impossible to understand from reading raw government filings alone.
Our Principles
Every Claim Is Sourced
We do not publish speculation. Every factual claim on this platform is sourced to a publicly available government record — IRS filings, DOJ FARA registrations, state corporate databases, or published court documents. All sources are linked and verifiable.
Opinions Are Clearly Labeled
When we offer analysis, interpretation, or commentary, we clearly label it as such. Our "AFNPT Educational Analysis" boxes distinguish our interpretation from the underlying facts. Readers always know what is a documented fact versus our professional opinion.
No Accusations of Criminality
AFNPT does not accuse any individual or entity of criminal wrongdoing. We present public records and raise questions about transparency. All individuals and entities we discuss are presumed to have acted lawfully unless determined otherwise by competent legal authority.
Radical Self-Transparency
We practice what we preach. When AFNPT becomes a registered nonprofit, our own board meetings will be livestreamed, our financial records will be published in real-time, and every major organizational decision will be made in public view. We will be the most transparent nonprofit in America.
Non-Partisan Truth-Seeking
We investigate nonprofit compliance regardless of the political affiliation of the organization. Transparency is not a partisan issue — it is a fundamental right of every American who donates to, volunteers for, or is affected by nonprofit organizations.
First Amendment Foundation
Everything we publish is protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. We exercise our rights to free speech, free press, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances — all in service of public accountability.
Why Now
In the past decade, the American nonprofit sector has undergone a dramatic transformation. Organizations that were once small community charities have grown into multi-hundred-million-dollar operations with complex corporate structures, interstate and international operations, and financial flows that rival mid-size corporations.
At the same time, the mechanisms for public accountability have not kept pace. The IRS, chronically underfunded, conducts fewer audits of tax-exempt organizations than at any time in recent history. State attorneys general, who have oversight authority over charitable organizations, lack the resources to meaningfully monitor the tens of thousands of nonprofits operating within their jurisdictions.
This creates an accountability vacuum that AFNPT is designed to fill — not as a law enforcement body, but as an educational platform that empowers citizens with the tools, knowledge, and access to public records they need to make informed decisions about the organizations they support.
Our first investigation — into the intersection of domestic nonprofit operations, foreign agent registrations under FARA, and undisclosed financial flows — demonstrates exactly why this work matters. When a 501(c)(3) organization pays nearly $1 million to a shell-like entity for vague "research," and an entity with a strikingly similar name later registers as a foreign agent of a foreign government, the American public has a right to ask questions. AFNPT exists to ask those questions, document the answers, and educate the public about what they find.