Virginia · Nonprofit
INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,456 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ($224,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $172k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $382k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Interfaith Action for Human Rights does
Mission
Interfaith Action for Human Rights(iahr) represents people of faith and allies who educate and advocate in maryland, dc, and virginia for corrections systems to abolish unnecessarily punitive practices such as solitary confinement and to instead focus on rehabilitation and successful reentry of our citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and grassroots organizing: public awareness of our issues is the foundation for all our progress. Our best ally is a compassionate electorate that is well informed on the conditions of incarceration. Over the last year, iahr has sponsored innovative online programming regarding conditions of confinement including interviews with significant authors, progressive practitioners, and returning citizens. Iahr has continued to add new partners to its work which now include arnold & porter, rights behind bars, free minds book club and writing workshop, muslim advocates, and the virginia interfaith center for public policy. We also continued to build our advisory council of over 20 faith leaders in our region, to help guide and assist iahr in its work and community outreach
$45,664 spent35% of program spendingAdvocacy: in 2022, the virginia general assembly took another step forward toward ending solitary confinement in the states prisons. For the second year in a row, the virginia senate voted to limit solitary confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days, passing sb108. This bill was written by the virginia coalition on solitary confinement, organized and staffed by iahr. The house of delegates, while not ready to join the senate in immediate reform, did pass a substitute, by a unanimous vote, that raised the legislative priority of the issue by establishing a work group to study the use of restorative housing (solitary confinement) within state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. In maryland, delegate jazz lewis (d.24th district) sponsored iahrs legislation, hb67, that would mandate the department of public safety and correctional services to provide transitional services to anyone in solitary confinement six months prior to their release. Iahr has promoted the bill as safeguarding public safety as well as providing needed services to incarcerated people soon to be released. The maryland senate passed hb67/sb977 without opposition.
$52,185 spent40% of program spendingPen pal program: over 4,600 d.c. Residents are incarcerated in 122 prisons around the united states. D.c. Residents are incarcerated in prisons from california to florida to upstate new york. D.c. Residents in prison often feel very isolated since they are often incarcerated so far from home. In 2022, approximately 125 iahr volunteers served as pen pals, writing to at least one d.c. Resident incarcerated in a federal prison once a month for a year. A key goal of the program is to reduce the likelihood that these incarcerated persons will commit crimes after they are released.
$32,616 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $130,465.
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 2021 to 2022, from $91k to $57k (−37%).
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.
100% of INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $133k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS’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
INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — 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 INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 78% 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
INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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
INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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
69% 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 INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: 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 INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
- INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,456 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE ($224,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $382,456 in grants to INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
- NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE is the largest funder on record, with $224,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 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 9 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