New York · Nonprofit
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,397,869 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($3,777,500). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 142
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Physicians for Human Rights Inc does
Mission
Physicians for human rights works at the intersection of medicine, science, and law to secure human rights and justice for all. We investigate and document human rights violations, give voice to survivors and witnesses, and plant seeds of reconciliation by ensuring that perpetrators can be held accountable for their crimes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased conducting the following programs during fy2025: - excessive force on police officers and federal agents - attacks on healthcare program
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Phr's program on sexual violence in conflict zones forges critical partnerships that are dramatically increasing local capacity to forensically document and prosecute cases of sexual violence during and after armed conflict, with programs in kenya, the democratic republic of congo, iraq and elsewhere. The program's centerpieces are multisectional training and capacity building and innovative tools enable clinicians to support justice for survivors, including medicapt, a mobile application that guides health workers to securely document, store, and transfer evidence of sexual violence.
$2,669,383 spentof which $195,338 as grants58% of program spendingPhr's general program works globally and within the united states to investigate and document human rights violations, give voice to survivors and witnesses, and plant seeds of reconciliation by ensuring that perpetrators can be held accountable for their crimes.
$1,647,591 spent36% of program spendingPhr's program on asylum has volunteer health professionals in phr's asylum network who have supported survivors of torture and ill-treatment by conducting forensic medical evaluations that can document compelling evidence of physical and pyschological trauma and improve the odds that they will be granted refuge in the united states.
$247,165 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,564,139.
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 $12M to $17M (+41%).
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 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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
Saman Zia-Zarifi
Executive director
Board chair
Gerson Smoger
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $709k → $2.3M.
30 of 142 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 142 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
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 31% · 2019 47% · 2020 50% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% — 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
38% of PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
82% of PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 26 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC?
- PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC (New York) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,397,869 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($3,777,500). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 142 organizations giving $22,397,869 in grants to PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $3,777,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 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 142 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