Pew Research Center is a research organization at 901 E Street NW in Washington, DC. Its IRS ruling date is June 2004 (EIN 20-0881724). For the 2023 tax year it reported total revenue of 79.1 million.
Stated mission and independence claims
The Center states its mission as generating “a foundation of facts that enriches public dialogue and supports sound decision-making,” and describes itself as “nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonadvocacy.” It defines those terms explicitly on its own site: nonprofit means it is “funded from charitable dollars” and does “not do any work for hire”; nonpartisan means it maintains “strict impartiality and never align[s] with any political group, candidate or ideology.”
On funding it states that it receives money from The Pew Charitable Trusts and other organizations, that it “operate[s] independently,” that “leadership and staff decide what we study,” and that the research is published free of charge.
Relevance to digital political discourse
Pew runs a standing internet and technology research programme alongside its politics and news work, producing repeated measurements of American social media use and news consumption. Because the Center publishes topline results, questionnaires and methodology statements free, its figures are directly citable by anyone rather than only by subscribers.
Sources
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Pew Research Center. About Pew Research Center. Source for the quoted mission, the nonprofit/nonpartisan/nonadvocacy self-description, the statement that funding comes from The Pew Charitable Trusts and other funders, the statement that no funder decides what the Center studies, and that its research is made available free of charge.
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Internal Revenue Service, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Pew Research Center, EIN 20-0881724 — IRS Form 990 filings. Read through ProPublica's JSON API rather than its HTML page. Source for the EIN 20-0881724, the ruling date of 1 June 2004, the registered address '901 E STREET NW, Washington, DC 20004-2037', and the fiscal-year-2023 figures — total revenue $43,993,360 and total assets $79,127,107, the $44.0 million and $79.1 million given on this page. The HTML page previously cited here carries the financial tables but **not** the street address, which this note credited it with; the API record is where the address actually appears.