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Human Rights Foundation Inc

The foundation's purpose is to unite people regardless of their political, cultural, and ideological orientations in the common cause of defending human rights and promoting liberal democracy globally.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$2.5MCivil Rights$777kPhilanthropy$195kCommunity Improvement$80kArts & Culture$55kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$30kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $746,868, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,117,302 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,370,434 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $302k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $435k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PMART CONSULTANCY INC$200,000
HUMANO Y LIBRE FOUNDATION$179,722
CITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA$55,000
STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC$35,000
IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS$30,000
VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC$30,000
LIBRERIA DE SATOSHI INC$25,000
BITSHALA LLC$25,000
NORTH BEE LLC$20,000
HONG KONG DEMOCRACY COUNCIL$20,000
CADAL FOUNDATION INC$20,000
RUSSIAN AMERICA FOR DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA INC$20,000
SUMA FOUNDATION INC$19,651
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ORGANIZED HATE INC$17,500
TRAUMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIBRERIA DE SATOSHI INC: $25k → 10%TRAUMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%UN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA INC: $25k → 8%REVIVE SOUTH SUDAN GRANT: $150k → 22%MOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $25k → 9%STAND WITH HONG KONG: $8k → 14%WORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS INC: $550k → 17%PERMACHIVE INC: $35k → 20%JUSTICE FOR JAMAL: $21k → 10%FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INEEDHELPBY: $10k → 11%TOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUE: $65k → 11%HUMANO Y LIBRE FOUNDATION: $180k → 13%VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC: $39k → 15%RENEGADE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%NORTH BEE LLC: $15k → 5%PMART CONSULTANCY INC: $200k → 14%BEIT EL BARAKA USA: $10k → 7%BLOCKCHAIN COMMONS LLC: $10k → 10%CITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA: $55k → 7%NORTH BEE LLC: $20k → 22%KHMER DEMOCRATIC RESCUE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS: $30k → 17%BTCPLUSPLUS LLC: $10k → 10%HONG KONG DEMOCRACY COUNCIL: $20k → 14%TOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUE: $25k → 11%VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC: $30k → 15%BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $10k → 14%IDEAS BEYOND BORDERS: $25k → 17%BITSHALA LLC: $25k → 10%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $600k → 14%TOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUE: $12k → 11%SUMA FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%CODE TO INSPIRE: $20k → 17%FREE AFRICA FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%RESCATE VENEZUELA INC: $100k → 15%STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC: $35k → 17%FREE AFRICA FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CADAL FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%LIBERTY SCULPTURE PA: $20k → 14%RESCATE VENEZUELA INC: $1.1M → 15%FREEDOM HOUSE INC: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ORGANIZED HATE INC: $18k → 14%NO CHAIN INC: $13k → 14%RUSSIAN AMERICA FOR DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA INC: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
UT
VA
DE
TN
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $13M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $9.3M to organizations and $4.1M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6.4M · 48% · 17 grants · 30 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · BITCOIN BOUNTY PROGRAM · FINANCIAL FREEDOM

Russia and Neighboring States$3.0M · 22% · 8 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: UKRAINE SOLIDARITY FUND · BELARUS SOLIDARITY FUND · FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.8M · 13% · 6 grants · 14 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND AND LONG TERM ACTIVIST SUPPORT · BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · LONG TERM ACTIVIST SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$519k · 4% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · ART IN PROTEST · FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP

South America$497k · 4% · 4 grants · 14 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP · MICROGRANTS

Middle East and North Africa$364k · 3% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: LONG TERM ACTIVIST SUPPORT · FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP · HAVEL PRIZE

East Asia and the Pacific$330k · 2% · 11 grants · 10 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · CCP DISRUPTION INITIATIVE · KOREA DESK

South Asia$296k · 2% · 2 grants · 6 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · MICROGRANTS · LONG TERM ACTIVIST SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$266k · 2% · 4 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND · MICROGRANT · FINANCIAL FREEDOM

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Human Rights Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Human Rights Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-54%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $687k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsSocial SciencePublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VI
    VENEZUELA IN ACTION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.2M · revenue -54% · 56% of their budget
  • TC
    TOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $102k
  • FA
    Free Africa Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +21%
  • WL
    WORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $550k · 36% of their budget
  • RS
    REVIVE SOUTH SUDAN GRANT
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran
Civil Rights
2
Democratic China Incorporated

Promote freedom of information, freedom of expression and freedom of publication in China. Promote freedom, democracy, human rights, rule of law and constitutional government in China.

Civil Rights
3
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
4
Reporters Without Borders Inc

Reporters Without Borders is an organization defending freedom of the press and denouncing attacks on the right to inform and to be informed.

Civil Rights
5
Beijing Spring Inc

To break the block of information for people in china

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
7
Team Democracy Inc
Civil Rights
8
Human Rights in China Inc

Human rights in china, founded by chinese students and scholars in march 1989, is an international, chinese, nongovernmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of…

International
9
Global Voice
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10
Committee for Open Democracy Inc
Public Benefit
11
Ukraine Freedom Project

Conveying factual, accurate, unbiased, first hand information about ukraine to policymakers and the public at large

International
12
Democracy Fund Inc
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Liberty Congress Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citizen Power Initiatives for China Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
14/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VENEZUELA IN ACTION INC: $1,200,000 · InternationalVENEZUELA IN ACTION INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC+9 more: $215,500 · International+9 morePMART CONSULTANCY: $200,000 · OtherPMART CONSULTANCYREVIVE SOUTH SUDAN GRANT: $150,000 · OtherREVIVE SOUTH SUDAN GRAN…TOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUE: $102,000 · OtherTOGOLESE CIVIL LEAGUEFree Africa Foundation: $80,000 · OtherFree Africa FoundationPERMACHIVE INC: $35,000 · Other+14 more: $210,646 · Other+14 moreWORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS INC: $550,000 · Civil RightsWORLD LIBERTY CONGRE…Voces de la Memoria INC: $68,700 · Civil RightsVoces de la Memoria …CITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA INC: $55,000 · Civil RightsCITIZEN POWER INITIA…+1 more: $8,000 · Civil RightsHUMANO Y LIBRE FOUNDATION INC: $179,722 · PhilanthropyUN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA: $25,000 · Social ScienceCenter For The Study Of Organized Hate Inc: $17,500 · Social ScienceSTUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $25,000 · Environment
International$2,015,500Other$777,646Civil Rights$681,700Philanthropy$179,722Social Science$42,500Arts & Culture$35,000Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVENEZUELA IN ACTION INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS INC: $550,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetHUMANO Y LIBRE FOUNDATION INC: $179,722 over 1y, 64% of budgetVoces de la Memoria INC: $68,700 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetIdeas Beyond Borders Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA INC: $55,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC: $35,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCADAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRussian America for Democracy in Russia Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHONG KONG DEMOCRACY COUNCIL USA: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCode to Inspire Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCenter For The Study Of Organized Hate Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNO CHAIN: $12,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetBEIT EL BARAKA USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRENEGADE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAUMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINHB CORPORATION: $9,995 over 1y, 21% of budgetSTAND WITH HONG KONG ACTION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Endowment fo…Open Sats Initiative …Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Endowment for DemocracyDC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · Open Sats Initiative Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Human Rights Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Human Rights Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Human Rights Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Human Rights Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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