Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,341,892 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,406,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What National Religious Campaign Against Torture does
Mission
To mobilize people of faith to end torture in u.s. Policy, practice and culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ending torture in u.s. Prisons program - nrcat engages in education and advocacy to end the torture of solitary confinement in u.s. Prisons, jails, and detention centers. As such, nrcat works to shift the practices of the u.s. Carceral system away from punishment and toward restoration and healing. This includes education for governments at all levels to follow the nelson mandela rules, the united nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners. The vast majority of those held in solitary confinement in the u.s. Are in state prisons and local jails; and nrcat supports state-level campaigns in more than twenty states.
$2,437,480 spentof which $900,475 as grants$7,730 earned by the program79% of program spendingHuman rights and national security programs - since its establishment in 2006, nrcat has played a significant role in working to stop the post-9/11 torture of detainees by the u.s. Government, while subsequently educating and advocating to ensure that the country will never engage in the torture of detainees during interrogations again. Nrcat's work in this program area includes confronting islamophobia by working towards one of its organizational goals of ending the bigotry and hatred that promotes the practice and acceptance of torture against religious, ethnic, and other targeted groups. It also includes pushing for an end to indefinite imprisonment of the men held at the detention center at guantanamo bay, along with calling for a closure to the detention center.
$407,387 spent13% of program spendingLobbying - nrcat engages in grassroots and direct lobbying in the prevention of torture and limiting the use of solitary confinement.
$245,508 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,090,375.
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 $1.8M to $4.3M (+142%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Rev Ron Stief
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.6M.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 39% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 38% — 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
28% of NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Religious Campaign Aginst Torture Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE?
- NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,341,892 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,406,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $10,341,892 in grants to NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,406,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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