Tennessee · Nonprofit
Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation
Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,040 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($47,040). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation does
Mission
HUMAN RIGHTS Supporting human rights movements in former USSR
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain and preserve the work of human rights platform for the activities of other information organization and groups. Develop sustainability models for the preservation and support of independent human rights groups and activists of Russia.
$54,752 spentof which $87,615 as grants33% of program spendingImprove coordination and cooperation among NGOs working to defend the freedom of assembly; provision of broad support to citizens whose freedom of assembly has been violated.
$54,751 spentof which $87,614 as grants33% of program spendingTo empower civil society organizations that work on issues of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the target country to protect themselves from repressive state policies.
$54,751 spentof which $87,614 as grants33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,254.
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 2018 to 2019, from $14k to $110k (+669%).
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: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the Helsinki Movement 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.
Where its funders are
Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of the Helsinki Movement 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Helsinki Movement 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 Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation?
- Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $47,040 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($47,040). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $47,040 in grants to Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation?
- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY is the largest funder on record, with $47,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Helsinki Movement Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 1 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