People Power United issued a statement in opposition to the House Homeland Security Committee’s and Senator Josh Hawley’s unfounded demands for information from hundreds of nonprofit organizations.
🗽A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
People Power United issued a statement in opposition to the House Homeland Security Committee’s and Senator Josh Hawley’s unfounded demands for information from hundreds of nonprofit organizations.
📄 Here is the statement made on behalf of our People Power United members:
June 19, 2025
We, the undersigned more than 600 nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations, stand united in opposition to the House Homeland Security Committee’s and Senator Josh Hawley’s unfounded demands for information from hundreds of nonprofit organizations. These charities and organizations have done nothing but carry out their work including what is outlined in the federal grants some of them were awarded, and include religious organizations and groups working on advocacy and services for immigrants, workers, youth and a vast array of other organizations serving their communities.
These letters of inquiry target civic organizations that have provided services under valid federal contracts that were authorized and appropriated by Congress, filling a need the government cannot perform itself. No allegations of wrongdoing, or evidence, is provided for these extraordinary and burdensome inquiries. This effort appears to be an attempt to weaponize Congressional power and create the appearance of wrongdoing against those who the signers believe disagree with their political agenda. The process these lawmakers intend to drag these law abiding, community serving organizations through is the punishment.
As nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations, we work in communities across the country to feed the hungry; house those without shelter; protect our air and water, our rights to vote, worship, and organize; we fight for consumers, workers, and our children; we advocate for civil and human rights at home and abroad; we have made it safer to drive on our roads, easier to start a business, and healthier to live in our cities. We span the full ideological spectrum. And today, we stand together for our democracy and in solidarity with those nonprofit organizations unjustly targeted by these Congressional letters.
Let us be clear – this investigation is Congress weaponizing its powers to target and intimidate nonprofit organizations that are fulfilling the guidelines of federal grants simply because they disagree with the policy those grants advance. This unfounded inquiry is not about protecting Americans, rooting out waste and fraud, or defending the public interest. It is about using unchecked power to chill constitutionally protected activity, community activism, and voices those sending the letters may disagree with. That is un-American and flies in the face of the Constitution.
This specific attack on nonprofits is not happening in a vacuum. Rather, this attack exists in the context of a wholesale offensive against organizations and individuals the administration and its allies find objectionable. We are standing in solidarity with the organizations targeted in this unfounded investigation because nonprofits of all types, members of the clergy and religious groups, advocates, and community serving organizations should not be punished for their work – even if those in power find it threatening to their policy agenda. Our government is meant to serve the people, not those in office.
Efforts by Members of Congress to attack nonprofit groups they disagree with are reprehensible, dangerous, and a violation of fundamental American freedoms. Speaking out for the voiceless is, and has always been, our collective mission. As such, we stand with those organizations wrongly targeted, and with one another.
Sincerely,
100% Democracy: An Initiative for Universal Voting
2 Inspire Peace Inc.
350 Bay Area
350 Seattle
350Hawaii
360 Philanthropy Group LLC
A Place Called Home
AAPI NJ
Abortion Action Missouri
Acacia Center for Justice
Action for a Better Community
Action Together NEPA
Advocacy for Principled Action in Government
Afghan Legal Empowerment Portal
AFLCIO
African Human Rights Coalition
AFT
Air Alliance Houston
Akonadi Foundation
Al Otro Lado
Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health
All Voting is Local
AllBeforeUs, LLC
Alliance for a Just Society
Alliance for Justice
Alliance San Diego
Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
Alternative Schools Network - Added Chance
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
American Atheists
American Humanist Association
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
American Jewish World Service
American Midwest Ballet
American Oversight
Americans Against Government Censorship
Americans for Financial Reform
Americans United for Separation of Church and State Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment AMPLIFY Girls
Ascend Justice
Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Asian Law Alliance
Asylum Access
Athena Coalition
Austin Region Justice for Our Neighbors
Autism Alliance of MI
Autistic People of Color Fund
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
AVAN Immigrant Services
Avodah
Bainbridge Ometepe
Sister Islands Organization
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Bank Climate Advocates
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
Battle Born Progress
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice
Bearnstow
Beta Cell Action
Better Brazoria Clean Air and Water
Better Lives Rhode Island
Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black Nonbelievers
Black Women for Wellness Action Project
Bloodline Dance Theatre
Bright Lines Project
CA Budget & Policy Center
California Climate & Agriculture Network (CalCAN)
California Communities Against Toxics
California Women's Law Center
California Work & Family Coalition
CalNonprofits
CalPride
CalWild
Campaign Legal Center
Cedar Tree Foundation
Center for Common Ground
Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy
Center For Economic And Policy Research
Center for Economic Justice
Center for Effective Philanthropy
Center for Elder Law & Justice
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
Center for International Environmental Law
Center for Jewish Nonviolence
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Progressive Reform
Center for Story & Witness
Center on Policy Initiatives
CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers
Central American Legal Assistance
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
Ceres Community Project
ChangeLab Solutions
Charlotte Trans Health
Chesapeake Legal Alliance
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Council of Lawyers
Chicago Jobs Council
Chicago Women in Trades
Children’s Defense Fund
Choose Democracy
Citizen Action of New York
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Citizens Awareness Network
Citizens for Public Schools
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
City of York Human Relations Commission
Civic Shout Foundation
Civil Liberties Defense Center
Clean Air Coalition of Western New York
Clean Air Council
Clean Elections Texas
Climate Action California
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Museum
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America Co-Counsel NYC
Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community Coalition on Human Needs
CODEPINK
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice
Colorado Common Cause
Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
Columbia Legal Services
Common Counsel Foundation
CommonWealth Kitchen
Communities In Schools Whatcom-Skagit
Community Change Action
Community Labor United
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Community Resource Exchange
Compass Pro Bono
Compassion & Choices
Conant Family Foundation
Conceivable Future
Connecticut Voices for Children
Consumer Action
Cottonwood Institute
Courage California
Data & Society
David Rockefeller Fund
DAWN
Dear Asian Youth
Defend Public Health
Defending Rights & Dissent
Demcast
Democracy 21 Education Fund
Democracy Action Team at First Unitarian Society of Denver
Democracy Defenders Fund
Democracy Maine
Democracy Matters
Demos
Denver Food Rescue
Desert Advocacy Media Network
Detroit Disability Power
Dignidad
Direct Action Everywhere
Doctors for America
Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County
Dutchess County Pride Center
Earth Ethics, Inc.
Earth Island Institute
Earthworks
East Bay Children's Law Offices
Economic Policy Institute
EFERT, Inc
Elders Action Network
Elders Climate Action
Elephant Circle
Emerald Cities Collaborative
End Child Poverty California
End Citizens United
Endangered Species Coalition
Environmental Protection Network
Equality California
EquaSpace
Essential Information
Everybody Votes Campaign
EVkids, Inc.
Fab Youth Philly
Fair and Just Prosecution
Fair Fight Action
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern
California Faith in Action
Family Farm Defenders
Family Health Partnership Clinic
Family Values @ Work
Fight for the Future
Firedoll Foundation
First 5 California
Fishline
Flint Jewish Federation
Florida Immigration Law and Justice Center
Flow Water Advocates
Food & Water Watch
Food in Neighborhoods
Foodwise Community
Footloose Montana
Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice (Illinois)
Free Press Action
Free Speech For People
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Freedom Network USA
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom Oklahoma
Fresh Films
FreshWater Accountability Project
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Friends of Grand Rapids Parks
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
Friends of Rose Creek
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Mississippi River
Frontera Federation
Full Plates Full Potential
Fun with Financials
Funders for Justice
Get Free
Global Detroit
Global Faith and Justice Project
GLYS WNY and the Pride Center of WNY Goodnation
Grand Rapids Trans Foundation
Grantmakers in the Arts
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Grassroots International
Grassroots Leadership
Greater Good Studio
Greater Pittsburgh Art Council
Greenpeace USA
Ground Game LA
Groundswell Charleston
Grow Food Northampton
Grupo de Apoyo e Integracion Hispanoamericano
Haitian Bridge Alliance
Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation
HANA Center
Hands United
Harm Reduction Therapeutics, Inc.
Hawaii J20
Hawaii State Rural Health Association
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
Health Care Without Harm
Healthcare Alternatives System INC.
Hello Future
HIAS Pennsylvania
Hill-Snowdon Foundation
Hilltown Vision
Hindus for Human Rights
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Hmong Innovating Politics
Hope Acts
Housing and Family Services of Greater New York
Houston Voting Initiative
Human Rights Watch
Human Services Council of New York
Hunger Solutions New York
Hyams Foundation
Illinois Collaboration on Youth
Illinois Network of Centers for Independent Living
Immigrant Legal Defense
Immigration Center for Women and Children
Impact Investors
In This Together NEPA
Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Institute of Cooperative Learning
Interfaith Alliance
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
International Mayan League
Intransitive
Jane Doe Inc.
JCFS Chicago
John Brown Lives!
Jolt Action
Junta Comunitaria Pastillo Tibes Corp. Just Solutions
Just Strategy
Justice At Last
Justice in Aging
Kansas Interfaith Action
Kataly
Kettle Range Conservation Group
Keystone Development Center
Kinder World
KinderUSA
Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center
Krupp Family Foundation
Ktisis Capital
Kyo-Shin-An Arts Inc.
L Professional Writing, LLC
La Puerta Abierta
La Raza Centro Legal
La Raza Community Resource Center
LA Voice
Larksparre Consulting LLC
Latino Community Fund of WA
Latino Network
League of Conservation Voters
Libra Foundation
Literacy Works
Little Tokyo Service Center
Living Cities
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Lumina Alliance
Maine Council of Churches
Maine Society of CPAs
Make the Road Nevada
Malcolm X Center for Self Determination
Manzanita Capital Collective
MARBE SA
Marguerite Casey Foundation
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
McGregor Fund
Media Alliance
Mekong NYC
Merck Family Fund
Michigan Interfaith Power & Light
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Minnesota Council on Foundations
Minorities in Shark Sciences
Mint Chip Studios LLC
Mississippi Rising Coalition
Missouri Jobs with Justice
Missouri Workers Center
Mobile Pathways
MoNetwork
Morningside Retirement and Health Services Mosaic Changemakers
Mount Diablo Bird Alliance
Movement Strategy Center
MoveOn
MPower Change Action Fund
Muncie OUTreach LGBTQ+ Center
Museum Geelvinck
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC)
Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA)
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
Muslims for Just Futures
My Place Teen Center
NAACP Las Vegas, Branch 1111
Najam Consulting
NAKASEC
National Abortion Federation
National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE)
National Association of the Remodeling Industry
National CAPACD
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Coalition Against Cryptomining
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh
National Employment Law Project
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
National Homelessness Law Center
National Institute for Reproductive Health
National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and Foundation
National Women's Law Center Action Fund
National Working Positive Coalition
NC Environmental Justice Network
New Day Nevada
New Disabled South
New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc.
New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children
New Jewish Narrative
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
New York City Employment and Training Coalition
New York Civic Engagement Table
New York Communities for Change
New York Folklore
New York Foundation
New York Progressive Action Network
NFP Consulting
NH Peace Action
NM Communidades en Accion Y de Fe (NM CAFe)
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, IFPTE Local 70
Nonviolence International
NorCal Resist
Normandie Foundation
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition
Northern New Jersey Sanctuary Coalition
Northwest Environmental Advocates
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Nourish California
NYenvironcom
Oasis Legal Services
Occupy Bergen County (New Jersey)
Ocean Conservation Research
Ohio Equal Rights
Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Oklahoma Policy Institute
One Arizona
One Colorado
One Voice Recovery, Inc.
OneAmerica
Open Markets Institute
Open MIC
OpenMedia
Opioid Policy Institute
Opportunity Fund
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility Our Revolution
Oxfam America
PA Harm Reduction Network
Palestine Legal
Paper Crane Associates
Partners for Progressive Israel
Peace Action New York State
Pelecanus
PEN America
Pennsylvania Stands Up
People For the American Way
People Power United
Phoenix Legal Action Network
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Pine River Group Home, Inc.
Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plug In America
PowerSwitch Action
Predator Defense
Prevention Institute
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Project Access Northwest
Project Include
Project On Government Oversight
Project South
Proyecto Faro
Proyecto Faro
Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK)
Public Citizen
Public First Law Center
Public Justice Center
Public Knowledge
QWELL Community Foundation
Race Forward
Rainbow Bridge Community Center
Raksha, Inc
Rank the Vote
Ready for Change
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Refugee Council USA
Reimagine Wealth LLC
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP Campaign)
Religions for Peace USA
Reproaction
Resonance Arts
Resource Center
Resource Renewal Institute
Restore The Fourth
Revolution Workshop
Rhode Island Environmental Education Association
Rights & Democracy Institute
Rights & Democracy Project
Rise Economy
River Otter Ecology Project
Robertson Foundation for Government
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rocky Mountain Conference, UCC
Roots Reborn
RootsAction
Rural AIDS Action Network
Safe Horizon
San Francisco Foundation
Save Ohio Parks
Save Our Streams
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum
Secure Elections Network
Seneca Lake Guardian
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)
Seven Counties Services
Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investment
Shelter Youth and Family Services
Sierra Health Foundation
Sierra Nevada Alliance
Silver State Equality
SMYAL
SoCal 350 Climate Action
Social Justice Legal Foundation
Social Justice Collaborative
Solidaire Network
Solidarity Engineering
South Asian Network
South Bay People Power
Southeast Asian Community Alliance
Southern Vision Alliance
Southside Food Co-op
SouthWings
Sowing Justice
St Michael's Food Pantry
St. Matthew Trinity Lunchtime Ministry
Stand Up America
Stanley Center for Peace and Security
Starting Over Inc
Step Forward
Stop AAPI Hate
Strong Arm Investments, LLC
Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT)
Sunrise Movement
Support Center for Nonprofit Management
Swan View Coalition
Syzygy
T'ruah
Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities Taproot Collective, Inc.
Tara Health Foundation
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC)
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors
Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation
The Boone Family Foundation
The Climate Center
The Climate Museum
The Episcopal Church
The Funders Network
The Harbour
The Health & Housing Consortium
The Human Trafficking Legal Center
The Humanization Project
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
The Living City Project
The Mansfield Foundation
The Ocean Project
The Philanthropy Coach, LLC
The Pride Center at Equality Park
The Redress Movement
The Right to Immigration Institute
The Source LGBT+ Center
The Statewide Independent Living Council of Illinois
The Street Trust
The Workers Circle
Thurston Climate Action Team
Tides
Tikkun Olam Foundation, Inc.
TransCanWork
Transgender Law Center
TransitCenter, Inc.
Transparency International U.S.
Treatment Action Group (TAG)
Trust-Based Philanthropy Project
Trustees for Alaska
Turkopticon
Turtle Island Restoration Network
U.S. Department of Arts & Culture
Unitarian Universalist FaithAction New Jersey
Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice
United Church of Christ
United for a New Economy
United for Respect
United Neighborhood Houses
United Women of Color
UNRWA USA National Committee
Uptown People's Law Center
US PPLHIV Caucus
Ventura County Legal Aid
Vermont Community Thermal Networks
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Victim Rights Law Center
Virginia Women’s Foundation
Vocal-KY (Voices of Community Activist and Leaders-Kentucky)
VOCAL-TX
Voices for Progress Ed Fund
Voting Access For All Coalition (VAAC)
WDIY 88.1 FM
We Lead By Example, Inc.
Welcoming America
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Western Colorado Alliance
Western Environmental Law Center
Western Watersheds Project
Whose Corner Is It Anyway
Wildlife for All
Willow Fund
Wingbeat 88
Winter Film Festival
Winter Wildlands Alliance
Women Thinking Out Loud
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)
Women's Center of Greater Lansing
Women's Fund of Rhode Island
Woodstock Institute
Worksafe
X-Lab
Yes In My Back Yard
Yleana Leadership Foundation Youth Pride, Inc.
Youth United for Community Action
Zakat Foundation of America Zero Hour
Zero Waste Ithaca
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