Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC
EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,549,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,493,822). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Earthrights International Inc does
Mission
To work with people around the world to protect human rights and the environment
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy and campaigns: earthrights seeks to raise awareness and build broad support among local communities to protect their rights and resources, advocate for human and civil rights and environmental rights, and promote accountability around the world.
$1,133,395 spentof which $137,747 as grants16% of program spendingLegal: earthrights undertakes charitable impact litigation and related legal advocacy to defend human and civil rights and environmental rights, establish and clarify legal standards, and promote accountability and deter abuses around the world. Cases are chosen for their public significance and broader charitable benefit rather than to advance private interests. In accordance with 501(c)(3), the organization's litigation furthers educational and charitable purposes and is designed to produce systemic benefits; any relief obtained for individual parties is incidental to these overarching public purposes.
$3,968,830 spentof which $15,247 as grants54% of program spendingThe earthrights schools: educates people of southeast asia and south america in environmental and human rights monitoring and advocacy techniques.
$928,840 spentof which $112,641 as grants13% of program spendingEarthrights uses the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment
$1,278,255 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,309,320.
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 2019 to 2020, from $9.8M to $17M (+70%).
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: 2018 11% · 2020 58% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL 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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $5.1M.
23 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
41% 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 EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 32% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 13% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 152 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- (Fcesa)-Foundation for Culture And · corp_trust
- (Fenr) Foundation for Environment · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL 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 EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,549,865 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,493,822). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $27,549,865 in grants to EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,493,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 80 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