Thank you for supporting the Pearl Project, dedicated to the memory of journalist and friend Daniel Pearl.
The Pearl Project is a fiscally-sponsored program of United Charitable, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with EIN #20-4286082. In accordance with IRS regulations, donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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Help Us Build a Global Database to Expose the Hate-Fueled Network Undermining Democracy
We are building a global database that names names and follows the money on a dangerous and coordinated network of over 2,500 organizations spreading hatred toward America, Jews, Israel, merit-based education, and free enterprise — the very foundations of democracy.
This is a transnational movement that crosses borders, manipulates nonprofits, and leverages media, education, and political activism to push a radical agenda rooted in socialism, Islamism, antisemitism, and anti-Western ideology.
It is well-funded. It is well-organized. And until now, it has been operating in the shadows.
This network operates under the banner of nonprofits — many with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) status — yet it promotes ideologies that are radical, regressive, and deeply harmful to our society.
Roughly 30% of these groups identify as socialist, communist, or Marxist. Another 30% are supporters of political Islam, or Islamism. The rest align with these agendas.
We see this influence rising in figures like Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America candidate nominated to become mayor of New York City. His platform seeks to dismantle merit-based education, defund Israel, and reshape America through extremist ideology. This is not an isolated case — it’s a blueprint.
Our Mission
Led by journalist and activist Asra Q. Nomani, editor-in-chief of the Pearl Project and a former Wall Street Journal reporter, we are building a public, interactive database that maps this dangerous web of organizations and ideologies.
As Asra testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee:
“Antisemitism is now an industry. It is being perpetuated by organizations that even have nonprofit status in America — 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s.”
U.S. Senator Mike Lee called it what it is:
“The antisemitism industrial complex.”
We are answering the call to name names and follow the money.
What We’re Building
We are creating a Carvana-like database experience that allows the public to:
- Search and explore the 2,500+ organizations by name, funding, affiliation, and ideology
- See the connections among socialist, Marxist, and Islamist-aligned nonprofits
- Track influence in education, media, government, law and other public policy issues
- Follow the money from donors to political outcomes
- Inoculate the next generation from propaganda and radicalization
Your Donation Will Support:
- 🔍 Completion of our in-depth investigative research
- 💻 Backend and frontend development for the database and app
- 🚀 Prototype launch and public beta testing
- 📣 Public education and media engagement tools
This is a project by the people, for the people, housed at The Pearl Project, founded in honor of Daniel Pearl to protect truth, justice, and democracy.
Join Us
Thanks to early gifts, we’ve begun working to structure the relational database and ontology. Every donation gets us closer.
This is your opportunity to be part of a historic truth-telling project.
Together, we can expose this ideological infrastructure and protect our youth, our schools, our democracy, and our future.
Thank you for standing with us.
— The Pearl Project Team
How to Donate
Online donations
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Donations can be sent via check to this address: Pearl Project (No. 356657), United Charitable, PO Box 715969, Philadelphia, PA 19171-5969.
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Wire transfer
Donations can be transferred via wire transfer through this information: Bank Name: Wells Fargo, N.A., Account Name: United Charitable, ABA Routing Transit Number (RTN/ABA): 121000248, Account Number: 3839696709
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