Virginia · Nonprofit
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,668,215 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($1,185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $992k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $176k
What Human Rights Activists does
Mission
The Human Rights Activists HRA is unwaveringly dedicated to safeguarding and promoting human rights in Iran. Since its inception in 2006 HRA has been an unwavering beacon in highlighting human rights concerns delivering educational resources offering legal aid and spearheading fieldwork. A noteworthy accomplishment in HRAs repertoire is the establishment of the HRA News Agency marking it as a trailblazer in Irans human rights reporting. The paramount aim of HRA remains to elevate and ameliorate the human rights milieu in Iran.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Human Rights Activists HRA is dedicated to promoting human rights through various initiatives. It operates HRANA the first human rights news agency in Iran and manages projects like the Fourth Pillar Committee which combats censorship and Spreading Justice a database of human rights violators. HRA also supports labor rights through the Kardanan initiative and documents human rights abuses via the Statistics and Documents Center. Additionally it researches the role of the Pasdaran Guard Corps in human rights violations.
$462,141 spent57% of program spendingThis project is working towards developing a database to chronicle the varying situations concerning human rights.
$284,818 spent35% of program spendingHuman Rights Monitoring: This project seeks to enhance the human rights landscape by documenting violations and reporting on them.
$49,372 spent6% of program spendingEmpower smaller human rights groups especially in the areas of reporting and advocacy.
$13,500 spent2% of program spendingCollecting and verifying basic information from human rights activists at risk.
$6,000 spent1% of program spendingThis project scrutinizes open information sources to identify individuals who are implicated in human rights violations.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe International Advocacy Project aims to draw attention to human rights situations through international-level advocacy.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $815,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $118k to $530k (+348%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 16% · 2024 36% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $104k → $413k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS’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
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 52% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: 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 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS?
- HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,668,215 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($1,185,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,668,215 in grants to HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $1,185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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