North Carolina · Nonprofit
RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL
RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,522 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Rights Watch International does
Mission
Charitable purpose is to inform and educate the general public about the need to protect and preserve individual constitutional and statutory rights and privleges and the responsible exercise of individual freedom and responsibility. And to engage in civil actions as party plantiff against governmental or private sector entities which have engaged in actions which allegedly violate human and civil rights secured by law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Inform and educate the general public about the need to protect and preserve individual constitutional and statutory rights and privleges and the responsible exercise of individual freedom and responsibility. To engage in civil actions as party plantiff against governmental or private sector entities which have engaged in actions which allegedly violate human and civil rights secured by law. To publish newsletters and brochures containing inspirational and educational materials prepared by prominent citizens and advocates.
$78,821 spentof which $50,669 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,821.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $90k to $54k (−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.
100% of RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $171k → $21k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL’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
RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 76% · 2023 95% — 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
93% of RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k 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
RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL's revenue fell 68% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL: 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 RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL?
- RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,522 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $274,522 in grants to RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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