Since Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025, thousands of United States government web pages have been taken offline.
Some government agencies removed individual pages or sections of their sites. Some websites entirely disappeared.
So how does this impact nonprofits?
Many of these web pages contained data, reports, research and other materials that organizations rely on to better serve their communities and evaluate the effectiveness of their work.
The good news is a lot of these web pages and documents that were purged have been backed up and are available elsewhere online. In many cases, nonprofits can use these resources to recover what was lost.
Categories of Resources
We’ve broken the resources below into the following categories to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for:
You can also reach out with any questions or submit another resource for us to consider.
Purpose of this Post
The purpose of this post is to centralize resources nonprofits may find helpful. While thousands of web pages have been removed from the internet, this post focuses only on those that impact nonprofits.
If your nonprofit lost access to a website or web page that you rely on to do your work, hopefully this helps in your search for a backed up copy.
Our goal is not to be entirely comprehensive. It’s to give nonprofits the best chance at finding the information they need by making this as actionable and approachable as we can.
We’ve intentionally left off any government websites (that end in .gov) since those are more susceptible to political influence and may disappear in the future.
Note: We’ll be updating this post over time with more resources.
General Archives
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is the first place I recommend looking for web pages that have disappeared.
Operated by the Internet Archive — a nonprofit themselves — they’ve saved more than 916 billion web pages over the years.
Just paste the URL in for the page you’re looking for. Up pops a calendar showing all the dates that page was captured. Typically I recommend choosing the most recent date, unless you need an older version for some reason.
They also offer a Collection Search, which allows you to search specifically for things like .gov PDFs and .gov web pages.
Reproductive Rights
If you’re looking for information that was purged specifically related to reproductive rights, here are a few resources that should help.
ReproductiveRights.Gov
This website was created by the Biden Administration after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. It’s no longer accessible.
theSkimm has copied the entire content of the web page, available using the link above.
You can also access a backed up version directly through the Wayback Machine here.
Removed CDC Guidelines
Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day is backing up CDC guidelines related to reproductive rights, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
They’re currently hosting backed up copies of documents in the following areas:
- Contraception
- Family Planning
- Sexual Health
- Vaccines
- Women & Children
- Youth
- LGBTQIA
- Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence
As of publishing, there were more than 60 documents hosted here, with more to come.
Healthcare
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Endorsements
Many of the resources listed here currently are available on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. But most of those have a warning at the top that they’re currently being reviewed and modified to comply with new Executive Orders.
They cover everything from immunization schedules to recommendations for contraceptive use.
The documents on the ACOG website are hosted independently. So if they’re removed from the CDC website in the future, they’ll still be available on the ACOG site.
Environmental
If you’re looking for environmental data or web pages that were deleted, here’s where I’d start.
Public Environmental Data Project
A volunteer coalition of environmental orgs, researchers, archivists and students, the Public Environmental Data Partners “are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data.”
They spun up an unofficial copy of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool that was discontinued by the White House two days after inauguration.
They’ve backed up resources from the CDC.
They also recently released an unofficial copy of the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool that was also discontinued by the White House in early February 2025.
Parts of this site are a bit of a “work in progress” if you aren’t pretty technical. But they’re making it a priority to make the large amounts of data they’ve saved available to non-technical folks, so keep it handy even if it’s not quite what you need just yet.
Census Data
IPUMS
IPUMS mission is to democratize access to the world’s social and economic data for current and future generation.
They have a tremendous amount of census and survey data from all over the world, not just the United States.
Over the years, a lot of their funding has come from federal grants, so we’ll see how that shakes out. But all of this data is available free of charge.
Additional Information
The following resources have been invaluable to me in preparing this post:
- Data Rescue Project: A coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, providing links to resources and organizing a variety of data rescue efforts. You can also follow them on Bluesky.
- Finding Alternative Sources for Federal Information & Data: A guide hosted by the UNC-Chapel Hill University Libraries.
- DataHoarder Subreddit: A space for data hoarders to discuss their craft. I found a bunch of interesting threads to pull here.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone involved in these efforts!
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