Fidelity Investments last month quietly attempted to fix a problem. The financial services giant made a series of filings to Congress detailing years-old contributions to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, after NOTUS reported how presidential libraries have become magnets for special interest money, with limited public disclosure.
The March 16 disclosures of $40,000 worth of contributions between 2022 and 2025 were months or years late under a federal law requiring corporations and individuals that lobby the federal government to semiannually disclose donations to any of several kinds of committees, including those for presidential inaugurations and libraries.
Fidelity did not respond to questions about why its presidential library donations were late. But a person familiar with the donations confirmed that Fidelity filed the disclosures after reading NOTUS’ reporting and said the money helped fund the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, which recognizes public officials “whose actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership.”