Press Release: The Impact Project Hits Major 2025 Milestones, Becomes Essential Resource for Assessing Real-World Impacts of Federal Shifts In Under One Year

As 2026 approaches, The Impact Project continues to build the most comprehensive dataset ever assembled on government change in America.

 

Washington, D.C. – The Impact Project today announced major milestones accomplished in 2025, less than one year since its launch in March, highlighting rapid growth and rising demand for transparent, accessible, and real-time data on how government decisions are impacting communities nationwide. 

“In 2025, The Impact Project started as an idea and grew into a national effort—making it easier for communities, advocates, policymakers, and institutions to understand the value of public service and how government actions shape people’s lives,” said Abby André and Jonathan Gilmour, Co-Founders of The Impact Project. “We’re assembling the most comprehensive dataset on government change in the nation, and in 2026, we’ll expand that work to help communities meet this moment with resilience and strength.”

Since its launch in March, The Impact Project has:

• Compiled over 200,000 examples of government change – including thousands of unique testimonials documenting real-world experiences of how government decisions affect communities nationwide – and integrated 1 million pre-2025 data points into its growing dataset.
• Developed 60 dashboards and five interactive maps to visualize federal funding shifts, policy changes, and workforce trends nationwide. 
• Launched the Data Impact Network, a coalition of over 15 organizations working to strengthen and safeguard vital data infrastructure.
• Joined the Public Environmental Data Partners, a coalition of organizations that preserves and provides public access to federal environmental data, and that was co-launched by Jonathan Gilmour, Vice President of Data & Operations and Co-Founder of The Impact Project. 
• Reached 3 million LinkedIn impressions and over 200,000 website views.

The Impact Project launched with its flagship tool, The Federal Change Map, offering the first near-real-time view of federal funding, workforce, and policy activity at the community level. To date, that map alone has compiled over 15,000 government change stories, including over 1,400 testimonials. 

In the months following, The Impact Project launched several companion maps that add hundreds of thousands more examples of government change, including the AmeriCorps Map, the Public Health Map, and the Federal Office and Budget Map. Last month, The Impact Project partnered with the Public Service Alliance to release The Security Map – one of the most comprehensive datasets documenting violent threats against public servants in the United States from 2013 to 2025. The dataset aggregates more than 1,100 news reports, nearly 2,000 local official threat records, and over 500 federal court records to reveal a decade-long escalation in threats to public servants nationwide.

The Impact Project remains the only platform offering community-level government change data and analysis at scale, across sectors, in near-real time, and on a non-partisan basis. As sweeping federal actions continue to reshape federal agencies, programs, and services, the platform helps journalists, non-profits, state and local governments, businesses, and civic leaders track rapid developments, advocate on behalf of communities, and make more informed decisions.

About The Impact Project

The Impact Project is a nonpartisan platform that aggregates and visualizes data to demonstrate the nationwide value of public service and assess the localized impacts of government decisions for increased community resilience. Learn more at TheImpactProject.org.