Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,429 to it, the largest being SKOLL FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $525k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $478k
- Net assets
- $669k
What Digital Rights Foundation does
Mission
Digital Rights Foundation is a registered research-based advocacy non-governmental organization focusing on information and communication technologies (icts) to support democratic processes and digital governance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Digital Rights Foundation aims to strengthen protections for human rights defenders (hrds), with a focus on women's rights, in digital spaces through policy advocacy & digital security awareness-raising. In addition, one of our aims at the foundation is also to protect women from work and cyber-harassment that they have to deal with throughout their lives. We make them aware of their rights.with growing privacy concerns in digital spaces, drf seeks to increase awareness about privacy issues & defend the right to privacy by researching, monitoring, and reporting the tactics around surveillance. To rally with other actors for strong legal protection for privacy in the country and to raise our voice against dictating censorship policies, we intend to propose viable solutions to the government.
$289,406 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,406.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $99k to $511k (+415%).
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.
97% of DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Nighat Dad
President/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 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 DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION’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
DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION.
“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
DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: 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 DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION?
- DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,429 to it, the largest being SKOLL FUND ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $478,429 in grants to DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION?
- SKOLL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIGITAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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