New York · Nonprofit
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,803 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $720k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $589k
What Human Rights in China Inc does
Mission
Human rights in china, founded by chinese students and scholars in march 1989, is an international, chinese, nongovernmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in china
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Casework and defender support: hric focuses on rights defenders who are raising systemic human rights issues and concerns regarding individual cases. Hric also supports citizen activism by increasing access to uncensored information, bringing international attention to domestic calls for action, and providing media support for individual cases, and capacity building resources for defenders.
Communications, media: hric's media work supports domestic forces for change and contributes to international understanding of the complex challenges facing rights defenders and civil society groups in china through press releases, statements, case updates, and the hric daily brief, a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in china,drawn from chinese- and english language news and online media sources. Hric highlights critical human rights-related issues and developments through media interviews, public talks, as well as commentary published on hric's website and by press outlets, aimed at promoting informed discussions in the international community.
Policy advocacy and research: hric's policy advocacy work is aimed at 1) advancing domestic implementation of china's international human rights obligations and 2) building international awareness of and support for key cases and issues critical to the development of a diverse and active civil society space in china. Hric conducts this work through extensive engagement with diverse stakeholders and actors, including governments, the private sector, academics and experts, and united nations human rights bodies. Hric monitors china's legal, political, and technological developments, conducts in-depth research, and produces whitepapers and reports on key topics that impact fundamental rights.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$617,113 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $617,113.
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 $1.7M to $1.2M (−32%).
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 20% · 2018 26% · 2019 38% · 2020 20% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 56% · 2024 47% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC’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. 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.
Board chair
William Bernstein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $198k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 IN CHINA INC’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 IN CHINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 IN CHINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 62% · 2021 60% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC 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 IN CHINA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Human Rights in China Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC?
- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $328,803 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $328,803 in grants to HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC?
- The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 12 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