California · Nonprofit
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,961 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($194,360). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $827k
- Net assets
- $458k
What Citizens Commission on Human Rights does
Mission
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (cchr) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. We work to ensure patient and consumer protections are enacted and upheld as there is rampant abuse in the field of mental health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research:as cchr is a mental health watchdog, cchr conducted research into many areas of human rights abuses in the mental health system, including the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ect), the use of physical and chemical restraints in psychiatric facilities, the prescribing of mind-altering psychiatric drugs, the link between psychiatric drugs and violence and suicide. Data was also obtained on psychiatrists and psychiatric facilities' violations of state and federal statutes or regulations, especially the commission of fraud and patient abuse, the use of physical and chemical restraints in psychiatric facilities and other coercive psychiatric practices.
$426,911 spent24% of program spendingInformational clearinghouse & hotline: cchr's website, www.cchrint.org, provides a means for people to become better informed about the mental health industry. The website includes the psychiatric drug side effects database where people can search and find the documented side effects and adverse reactions for psychiatric drugs, as well as international drug agency warnings and studies published on psychiatric drugs. In addition to the interactive database, there are web pages summarizing all of the documented risks of the main classes of psychiatric drugs.cchr also has its www.psychcrime.org website which includes the psychiatric crime and disciplinary actions database. This database contains searchable information about psychiatrists and psychologists, and other mental health professionals, who have been criminally convicted and/or sentenced, as well as those who have been disciplined by state medical boards for discreditable conduct.the cchrint.org website also includes cchr's abuse case management system where the public can easily report psychiatric abuse online and cchr can document and assist these abuse cases. Cchr also provides a toll-free hotline to report incidents of…
$198,998 spent11% of program spendingPublic education & advocacy, including legislative activities:cchr is a mental health rights watchdog and a voice for those who are unable to speak out about having been abused in the mental health system. By investigating the abuses reported to it and assisting those abused or their families to file complaints, cchr aims to eradicate human rights violations committed under the guise of mental health "care." cchr, along with advocacy groups and experts, continued to inform and educate policymakers about the inherent dangers of psychiatric drugs, mental health treatments, and practices.
$37,072 spent2% of program spendingPublic outreach:cchr conducted public outreach through its websites and social media. Press releases were posted by cchr on the website (www.cchrint.org), and promoted through its social media channels and through media outlets via online press release distribution services. Cchr also posted documentaries, videos and public service announcements on these online avenues. It also promoted its virtual public awareness psychiatry museum online.-cchr's online "psychiatry: an industry of death" museum details the history of psychiatry and how its treatments have been linked to so many deaths and abuse. As part of cchr's public awareness campaign, the museum's graphic documentary-style expose includes 14 state-of-the-art mini-documentaries addressing & exposing the lineage of human rights violations that have been and continue to be passed off as "treatment" within the infrastructure of modern, medical "practice".
$932,441 spent$56,319 earned by the program53% of program spendingPublications:as a watchdog organization, cchr produces many educational properties, including official reports and submissions to policymakers, positioning statements on mental health issues and documentaries covering aspects of psychiatry's harmful impact on society. The purpose is to raise awareness about protections needed for patients and their families' civil and human rights, especially the right to informed consent for treatment and to be safeguarded against coercive psychiatric practices.
$173,012 spent$6,535 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,768,434.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $411k to $1.2M (+197%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $48k → $116k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS’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
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
67% 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 CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 26% · 2019 30% · 2020 30% · 2021 33% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% — 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
45% of CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
65% of CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS'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 $291k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $827k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS?
- CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,961 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($194,360). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $826,961 in grants to CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $194,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 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