Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MEN CAN STOP RAPE
MEN CAN STOP RAPE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,197,914 to it, the largest being DC COALITION TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE ($2,142,536). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $342k
What Men Can Stop Rape does
Mission
Through our transformational youth development programs, pioneering trainings and consulting services, and acclaimed multimedia public education initiatives, mcsr has reached more than 200 million people. Founded in 1997 in washington, dc, mcsr serves schools, organizations, businesses, and agencies locally, nationally, and globally. We take a pro-social, strength-based approach with the goal of producing sustainable, measurable outcomes at each level of the social ecological model emphasizing primary prevention, social and emotional intelligence, healthy masculinity, and empowered womanhood. Mission: rooted in community, based in strength, and grounded in respect, mcsr prevents violence through transformational programs and services for youth and adults that promote healthy masculinity and empowered womanhood.vision: infinite possibilities of cultures free from violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training and technical assistance: every year, mcsr provides thousands of direct service agencies; school administrations; youth-serving organizations; colleges and universities; federal, state, and local government agencies; and religious groups with the theories and tools necessary to effectively engage men and boys in preventing gender-based violence. Through grants from the u.s. Departments of justice and health and human services, mcsr trained campus professionals; engaged entire college/university campuses in gender-based violence prevention activities; and mobilized male students to become leaders for change in ending men's violence against women.
$852,723 spent$100,678 earned by the program52% of program spendingYouth development: our youth development work includes the men of strength (most) club, now in its 20th year, and the women inspiring strength and empowerment (wise) club, now in its 10th year. For both our most and wise club members, the work begins with unpacking dominant stories of masculinity and womanhood; replacing those damaging narratives with counter stories that support members in becoming their best selves; and creating safer learning and community environments so that members can flourish and thrive. We believe our work is from conception through the lifespan, and with our emphasis on social and emotional learning, our most and wise curricula, and community strength projects, we are creating and instilling a pipeline with our members that prevents men's violence against women and girls by empowering girls to develop their identities beyond the restrictive and harmful confines of violence and by mobilizing boys to develop healthy, nonviolent masculinity.
$762,742 spent46% of program spendingCommunications: communications includes the organization's social media messaging materials and licensing agreements, social media, and public relations. While the social context for rape-prevention campaign materials targeting men has traditionally identified men as "the problem," our communications initiatives offer an affirmative alternative: a social context where men are role modeling healthy choices and behaviors. Our materials use audience-centered advertisements to encourage both moral identification and moral agency in the target audience of young men. Typically, audience-centered ads sell a product by using something already liked/desired by a target audience. Our materials use the desired attribute "strength" to reconnect young men to their capacity for choosing to do the right thing. The male audience member is invited to identify with the positive actions representing his own peer group. This reinforces his sense of moral agency; helps transform the social meaning of "peer pressure; and creates safe public spaces in which young men can stand up and speak up as visible allies.
$27,306 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,642,771.
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 $379k to $715k (+88%).
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 85% · 2018 84% · 2019 62% · 2020 75% · 2021 83% · 2022 78% · 2023 89% · 2024 88% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MEN CAN STOP RAPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% 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.
Chief executive
Neil Irvin
Executive director
Board chair
Donna Purchase
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $541k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MEN CAN STOP RAPE’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
MEN CAN STOP RAPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 MEN CAN STOP RAPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 73% · 2022 93% · 2023 75% — 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
29% of MEN CAN STOP RAPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
75% of MEN CAN STOP RAPE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MEN CAN STOP RAPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MEN CAN STOP RAPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $373k on record — $372k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$342k
- District of Columbia Courts$30k
- FEDERAL$1k
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 MEN CAN STOP RAPE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 MEN CAN STOP RAPE: 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 MEN CAN STOP RAPE?
- MEN CAN STOP RAPE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,197,914 to it, the largest being DC COALITION TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE ($2,142,536). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEN CAN STOP RAPE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,197,914 in grants to MEN CAN STOP RAPE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEN CAN STOP RAPE?
- DC COALITION TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,142,536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEN CAN STOP RAPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 11 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