Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,619,683 to it, the largest being SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc does
Mission
The center for countering digital hate's (ccdh) mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online through innovative research, public campaigns, and policy advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: through research, we expose the producers and spreaders of online harms, and demonstrate the offline consequences.
$846,013 spent33% of program spendingCommunications & outreach: through communications, we educate the public and key stakeholders about online harms.
$846,013 spent33% of program spendingPublic affairs: through public affairs, we persuade lawmakers and collaborate with civil society leaders to demand reform of social media.
$846,013 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,538,039.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $3.2M (+204%).
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.
99% of CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Imran Ahmed
CEO
Board chair
Simon Clark
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.4M.
17 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 31% · 2022 83% · 2023 30% — broadly stable.
“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
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC is better cushioned than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Centre for Countering Digtial Hate · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC?
- CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,619,683 to it, the largest being SAMUELI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $6,619,683 in grants to CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC?
- SAMUELI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 33 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