New York · Nonprofit
RIGHT TO BE INC
RIGHT TO BE INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,137,754 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Right to Be Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to build a world that is free of harassment and filled with humanity. We carry out this mission by building the power of everyday people to create safe and welcoming environments for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Rtb started to provide services through the expert voices together (evt) program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Anti-harrassment training: right to be holds cutting edge anti-harassment training on how to effectively prevent and respond to harassment including bystander intervention, conflict de-escalation, implicit bias, and resilience. Research in 2021 shows 76% of attendees who saw harassment after attending one of the right to be's trainings reported that they intervened.
$1,441,649 spent$2,042,702 earned by the program54% of program spendingExpert voices together (evt) provides trauma-informed support to journalists and researchers whose vital public-interest work is being undermined by coordinated campaigns of abuse and harassment. Without the assistance offered by evt, experts may stop sharing their important work, or worse, quit altogether. We help keep expert voices in the public square.
$710,787 spent$754,161 earned by the program26% of program spendingTracking stories of hate and hope: right to be's hate and hope tracker, is right to be's online storytelling platform for individuals to share, document, and map experiences of hate, harassment, or bystander intervention, and to receive real time support from bystanders. Bystanders can support by including or providing documentation, sending supportive messages, reporting platforms, and more, all chosen by the person experiencing the harassment. Since 2005, right to be has collected over 32,000 stories.
$207,164 spent$210 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe allies solidarity network is a network of partners that take action against hate and harassment, in all its forms. We act proactively to raise awareness, amplify the efforts of each partner's mission, and facilitate collaborative programming in areas such as rapid response advocacy, education, and policy change. Ultimately, we aim to harness the power of the collective to strengthen all our efforts for a more just world.
$158,764 spent6% of program spendingRight to be's 5ds for you(th) program is a school-based* anti-bullying curriculum for youth in grades 8-12 that is primarily focused on creating an environment in which bullying is not welcomed. We do this by empowering students to safely intervene when they observe bullying and disrespect, using right to be's 5ds of bystander intervention.
$168,052 spent$141,640 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,686,416.
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 2020 to 2021, from $312k to $2.3M (+627%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of RIGHT TO BE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Jacqueline Ebanks
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $352k → $563k.
15 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 RIGHT TO BE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
RIGHT TO BE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 RIGHT TO BE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 51% · 2019 25% · 2020 66% · 2021 47% · 2022 35% · 2023 44% — 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
33% of RIGHT TO BE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
RIGHT TO BE INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
RIGHT TO BE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RIGHT TO BE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $432k on record.
- Department of Justice$400k
- National Gallery of Art$19k
- Smithsonian Institution$13k
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 RIGHT TO BE 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIGHT TO BE INC: 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 RIGHT TO BE INC?
- RIGHT TO BE INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,137,754 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($800,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIGHT TO BE INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,137,754 in grants to RIGHT TO BE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIGHT TO BE INC?
- CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIGHT TO BE 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.
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 49 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