New York · Nonprofit
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC (New York) receives grants from 588 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,920,812 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,473,822). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 588
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Amnesty International of the USA Inc does
Mission
Amnesty international of the usa, inc. Is the united states section of amnesty international - a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. (continued on schedule o).organization's mission (continued):the organization's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of these human rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The strategy and impact department drives content, substance and strategy for aiusa's human rights impact. The department conducts domestic and leverages international research as a foundation for long-term strategic advocacy on the united states (and other) government and u.s. Corporations, leveraging their influence and holding them accountable on a range of pressing human rights issues domestically and internationally. The department develops targeted bursts of strategic campaigning to drive impact when a strong human rights opportunity or crisis emerges; all supported by a marketing and public-facing communications team that serves aiusa and the broader amnesty movement. The department is comprised of the following units 1) programs, (continued on schedule o).strategy and impact department (continued):2) government relations and advocacy, 3) campaigns and crisis response, 4) silicon valley initiative, 5) research, and 6) marketing and communication. 1. The programs unit consists of issue experts who manage ongoing bodies of work on human rights issues and who create and implement strategies to win human rights victories and make long-term human rights impact in particular…
$15,944,037 spentof which $40,000 as grants36% of program spendingThe movement building and membership engagement department at aiusa is composed of five key divisions: 1) organizing & activism, 2) events, 3) grassroots leadership & engagement, 4) individuals at risk (iar) and human rights education (hre) and 5) member communications. The movement building and membership department is comprised of the following units (continued on schedule o).movement building and membership engagement (continued):1) organizing & activism - the organizing and activism unit organizes and builds mobilization capacity in the united states. 2) events - the events unit orchestrates the planning and coordination of aiusa's annual general meeting and annual regional conferences across the country that educate and mobilize aiusa members, activists, and attendees. 3) grassroots leadership & engagement - the unit builds capacity for grassroots advocacy by recruiting, coaching, and training volunteer member leaders4) individuals at risk (iar) and human rights education - the iar-me unit intersects with departments and units across aiusa, seeking to grow action-takers, build member engagement, and diversify the movement through the foundational lens of individuals at risk…
$14,507,053 spentof which $113,621 as grants$51,465 earned by the program33% of program spendingEquity, inclusion, and advocacy and governance initiatives - includes the following departments 1) inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility ("idea"), and 2) chief of staff 1) idea - the idea group oversees ensuring more just, inclusive, and equitable work throughout aiusa, within our internal workplace practices, as well as the human rights work, we do globally. They use a strategic blend of surveying both member leaders and staff to assess issues of diversity and equity, identifying critical goals to be set, providing staff and member leader training, and developing and employing a set plan to implement this new agenda over a continued period. (continued in schedule o).2) chief of staff - the chief of staff department streamlines alignment between the international secretariat and aiusa as well as oversees the internal governance practices of the organization by collaborating with the board of directors and aiusa staff. In addition, the department manages an internal communications unit that is responsible for developing products and ensuring information flows that enable aiusa's community to function transparently, collaboratively, effectively, and in unison. Further, the…
$13,951,169 spentof which $13,865,392 as grants31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,402,259.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $44M to $56M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Paul O'Brien
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 160 funders to 220 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $6.4M.
89 of 588 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 588 funders by total. 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
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 30% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9.0M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 43 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC is better cushioned than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC?
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC (New York) receives grants from 588 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,920,812 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,473,822). 367 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 588 organizations giving $46,920,812 in grants to AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC, 367 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $14,473,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 588 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing