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B'TSELEM INC

B'TSELEM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,744 to it, the largest being SOURCE OF HOPE FOUNDATION ($570,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$482k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$921k
Net assets
$0
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What B'Tselem Inc does

Mission

B'tselem usa builds support for the protection of human rights in the west bank and gaza by amplifying within the us the research and analysis of israeli human rights organizations and by increasing access to expert voices from israel and the occupied territories.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Grants: b'tselem usa awarded grants to b'tselem to support its programming in research, data collection, social media and video documentation.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($470k) Net assets 100 ($252k)2018 Revenue 118 ($442k) Expenses 99 ($463k) Net assets 91 ($230k)2019 Revenue 144 ($540k) Expenses 95 ($448k) Net assets 128 ($322k)2020 Revenue 80 ($301k) Expenses 75 ($352k) Net assets 108 ($272k)2021 Revenue 129 ($482k) Expenses 161 ($754k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (129)Expenses (161)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $272k to $0 (−100%).

$291k
$233k
$325k
$272k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$95k
’17
−$22k
’18
$92k
’19
−$50k
’20
−$272k
’21
9.3
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed55455
Joined·+0+3+2+0
No longer listed·0410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $119k → $30k.

8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 B'TSELEM INC’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

B'TSELEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 81% · 2019 42% · 2020 77% · 2021 66% · 2022 88% · 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.

How long its funders stay

23% of B'TSELEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

B'TSELEM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like B'TSELEM 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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds B'TSELEM INC?
B'TSELEM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,744 to it, the largest being SOURCE OF HOPE FOUNDATION ($570,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does B'TSELEM INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $920,744 in grants to B'TSELEM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of B'TSELEM INC?
SOURCE OF HOPE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like B'TSELEM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 18 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing