No threats detected
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Is budgetandpolicy.org legit or a scam?
Official 20-year-old site of Washington State Budget and Policy Center nonprofit with verified 501(c)(3) status and clean records.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site presents itself as the Washington State Budget and Policy Center and matches the official nonprofit exactly. Domain registration dates back 7496 days with active social media accounts and event listings that align with the organization's history. Independent records confirm its 501(c)(3) status and EIN with tax-exempt recognition since 2006. No scam families, blocklist hits, or abuse complaints appear in the scan or research. The combination of extreme domain age, verified nonprofit filings, and zero negative signals supports high confidence in legitimacy.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for budgetandpolicy.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of Washington State Budget and Policy Center (WSBPC), a nonprofit policy organization.
- EIN 72-1612982 confirmed on ProPublica, GuideStar, CauseIQ; 501(c)(3) tax-exempt since June 2006.
- Domain age 7496 days (~20.5 years); organization founded 2005, 20th anniversary noted in 2026.
- Active presence: LinkedIn (wa-budget-policy), Facebook (budgetandpolicy), X (@budget_policy), hosts Budget Matters events.
- No scam, fraud, complaint, or negative review results found across multiple searches including Reddit.
- Listed on EARN, InfluenceWatch (left-of-center), Idealist; contact bnpinfo@budgetandpolicy.org, phone 206.262.0973.
- Address associated: 509 Olive Way #833, Seattle WA 98101 per filings.
501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 72-1612982, tax-exempt since June 2006, founded 2005
Our research confirms this is the official site of Washington State Budget and Policy Center, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with tax-exempt status since June 2006. No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews were found across web sources. The organization maintains active social accounts and is listed on multiple nonprofit directories.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://budgetandpolicy.org/
- 2200https://budgetandpolicy.org/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
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Reputation Sources
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on budgetandpolicy.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- budgetandpolicy.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. budgetandpolicy.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- budgetandpolicy.org is 20.5 years old, registered on 11/23/2005 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. budgetandpolicy.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- budgetandpolicy.org resolves to an IP operated by WPEngine, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
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