Ready to support the invisible?

Have you ever supported a nonprofit? If so, it’s probably because you believe in a cause you can see. You see the work. You see the results.

Supporting whistleblowers is different. It’s mostly invisible work. Quiet, sensitive and sometimes dangerous. And that makes fundraising for it … hard.

We don’t often have dramatic headlines to share. We don’t post emotional stories with names, photos or videos from sources about how hard their lives are. Not because those stories don’t exist — if anything, we have too many — but because almost everything we do has to stay quiet.

Here’s the challenge: you can’t see most of it.

Every week, roughly 15 individuals reach out to TSN for help. In the first half of 2025, requests increased 289% compared to last year. Some need legal help. Some need protection for themselves and their families. Some need a safe place to sleep. Sometimes we can help directly other times we connect them with trusted partners. But more often than not, money is needed to make any of it happen.

Most of the people we help choose to stay anonymous. Their safety and well-being come first. We don’t want them to feel any more exposed, pressured or worried than they already do…

So instead we say something like, “Help us protect those who speak up.” It is true, but it can sound general. It can feel distant. And yet, behind those words is real courage, real risk and real lives depending on support that never shows up in the news.

Because it happens quietly, it’s harder to get people to give. It’s easier to support causes that are “visible”. But the truth is, the world depends on invisible work. Without whistleblowers, corruption, abuse and injustice continue unchecked.

If you’ve ever hesitated because “it’s complicated” or “I don’t see the impact,” let me tell you: the impact is real. It is mostly invisible to the public eye, but the lives saved, the injustices prevented and the truths protected are felt long after the headlines fade.

It’s a strange place to be asking people to believe in work they often can’t fully see.

But we ask anyway. And we’re grateful for every single person who gets it and gives anyway.

So we’re asking here again, in whatever way feels right for you. Even if you don’t see the impact immediately, your support quietly protects someone, keeps a family safe and helps provide the legal or emotional help they need.