Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Right to Democracy Project
Right to Democracy Project (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,239 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($435,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $640k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $286k
What Right to Democracy Project does
Mission
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our Ecosystem Building strategy works to facilitate and support a multisectoral network of leaders - including civil society, community-based organizations, national civil rights groups, academia, philanthropy, and government - to co-create and build a new movement to confront and dismantle U.S. colonialism. Key highlights: conducting an artist listening tour that included 6 community dialogues with more than 70 participants across all five territories and DC; facilitating virtual and in-person learning sessions around the need to confront the undemocratic colonial framework governing the territories; co-creating and facilitating a cross-territorial coalition with five working groups focused on policy advocacy, litigation, organizing, international law & Indigenous rights, and education & media; elevating territory voices and facilitating the participation of more than 51 territorial representatives in national and local events.
$219,129 spent45% of program spendingOur Participatory Advocacy program works to confront and dismantle the undemocratic colonial framework governing all five U.S. territories through policy, advocacy, and litigation strategies that are developed by engaging people and communities from each territory, their diaspora, and throughout the United States. Our advocacy is directed towards creating systemic change and accountability across all three branches of the federal government. Key highlights: engaging civil rights, social justice, and community partners as well as congressional allies to press the U.S. Department of Justice to condemn the Insular Cases; developing new client-centered litigation focused on democracy, self-governance, and self-determination; advancing equity in federal benefits programs, philanthropic investments, data collection, and veterans services; and addressing issues of climate and environmental justice. Our work is supported by more than 1,000 hours of pro bono support from law firm partners.
$146,086 spent30% of program spendingOur Narrative and Cultural Change program works to combat the cultural normalization of undemocratic colonial rule in U.S. territories. We do this through engagement with journalists, educators, artists, and others, both in the territories and throughout the United States, leveraging our advocacy to raise the visibility of these issues both at a national level and in each territory. Key highlights: artist listening tour across the territories and convenings for the Decolonial Monument Project with national and local partners; highlight colonial injuries and their intersections with trending issues and current events to increase awareness of US colonialism; Op-Ed placements in national and local media; a social media campaign on the 125th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris and the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; developing historical educational primers for each of the territories.
$121,738 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $486,953.
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 2022 to 2023, from $207k to $338k (+64%).
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 Right to Democracy Project’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. 1 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $60k → $210k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Democracy Project’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
Right to Democracy Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Democracy Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 50% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
Right to Democracy Project draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Democracy Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Right to Democracy Project
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 Democracy Project: 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 Democracy Project?
- Right to Democracy Project (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,239 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($435,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Right to Democracy Project have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,366,239 in grants to Right to Democracy Project, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Right to Democracy Project?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Right to Democracy Project 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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