Florida · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA
FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,651,813 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($1,045,326). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $-118623
What Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba does
Mission
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (fhrc) is 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 1992 to promote a nonviolent transition to a free and democratic cuba with zero tolerance to human rights abuses. Fhrc seeking to empower human rights defenders and activists who are working for change in cuba through non-violent means. These includes prisoners of conscience and their families independent journalists, legal defense, bloggers and any marginalized sector of the society. Fhrc feels a profound responsibility to support and empower the cuban civil society in its efforts to obtain this transition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nec: succinectly, the key achievements of fhrc in cuba that are partially related to the generous support of ned 1. To empower the victims of repression with a tool to expose the identities of their repressors. This tool is our electronic data base that collects pictures, names, ranks and other information of those who repress cuban citizens either violently, judicially, administratively or other means. The data base is a deterrent because their names and information feeds the department of state for the imposition of individual sanctions. These tools are matched with name and shame campaigns to cuba exposing the repressors in flyers and digital communications. 2. The exceptional outreach of our media that debunks, the myths of the official propoganda, breaking the government's monopoly on information and dissemitation of ideas. 3. The exceptional outreach of our media that debunks the myths of the official propagandam breaking the governments's monopoly on information and dissemination of ideas.
$463,914 spent24% of program spendingWha: the purpose of this program is to identify, support, and build capacity of a 32-person cohort from independent cuban civil society to engage local communities in participatory process to identify and foster demands that address local needs that at the same time connects with national needs and demands. The budget for this program is 543125. This is an 18 month project designed to identify and build capacity of a cohort of 16 youth(ages 25-45) that will learn about leadership impact on democratic governance. The 16-person cohort will engage targeted sector communities/individuals to promote a new "mind-set" to include a "new narrative-on-change" that is generated at a grassroots level by individuals with an understood vision that "a better cuba is possible"
$540,270 spent27% of program spendingUsaid:the purpose of this program to expose and dismantle the cuban regime's exploitation of medical professionals deployed abroad public health. The program combines evidence-gathering, advocacy, and capacity- building: documenting testimonies from exiled and current medical workers, developing diital platforms like the new observatory of cuban labor export programs (oclep), and partnering with activist networks, academics, and civil society to reveal falsified health statistics and human rights violations. Through these efforts fhrc equips victims to advocate directly before governments and international bodies, strengthens regional associations of exiled cuban doctors, and builds global consensus to push for policy change in latin america, europe, africa and beyond. Utimately, cflcmm seeks to protect cuban medical workers' rights , counter authoritarian disinformation, and ensure international accountability while aligning with u.s. Security and human rights priorties.
$255,707 spent13% of program spendingAid and support, cash, equipment, pre-paid minutes, travel and other items sent to cuba
$710,490 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,970,381.
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 2020 to 2021, from $187k to $416k (+122%).
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: 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $90k → $649k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA’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
FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 70% 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
56% of FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA has grown faster than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Agency for International Development$4.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA?
- FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,651,813 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($1,045,326). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,651,813 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA?
- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY is the largest funder on record, with $1,045,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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