The Center for Public Integrity was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis. We are one of the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations. We are also the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. 

Our mission: To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.

The Center is a nonprofit digital news organization; it is nonpartisan and does no advocacy work. The Center for Public Integrity is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.   

The Center’s editorial staff consists of journalists, FOIA experts, copy editors, researchers, fact-checkers and data experts who work on the Center’s investigative projects and stories.

The Center distributes its investigations through its award-winning website and to all forms of media; broadcast, print, online, and blogs, around the globe.