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Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $184,395 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $208,114 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,719 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $40,844 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $30,393 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC | $23,287 |
| RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC | $14,974 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY | $13,396 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND INC | $11,747 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC | $10,473 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC | $10,255 |
| VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER | $9,778 |
| NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY | $7,624 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC | $5,868 |
| HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CNTR FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDU IN ISRAEL | $5,756 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EFElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +24%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +78%
- VPVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- USUKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue -84%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +36%- ILINDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +126%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights in the americas through effective use of the tools of the inter-american system and international human rights law
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds THE ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Poverty and Race Research Action Council ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PFLAG ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Resistance Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Network for Good · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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