California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being THE SCHULMAN FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Holman Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Bader Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 69% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 184 organizations that share them.
- Holman Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNJ · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bader Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchVA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Civil Liberties Union Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The 85 Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summer Fund IIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adco Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heritage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hayworth Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Civil Rights Coalition · exempt
- American Civil Rights Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being THE SCHULMAN FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,500 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE?
- THE SCHULMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing