Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER
THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,963 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($345,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $464k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The Equal Rights Center does
Mission
The erc is a civil rights organization that identifies and seeks to eliminate unlawful and unfair discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations in its home community of greater washington, d.c. And nationwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Throughout the course of 2025, the erc conducted a total of 780 civil rights tests, opened 145 intakes with local residents alleging unfair treatment in housing, filed 15 administrative complaints with local civil rights enforcement agencies which yielded over $120,000 in monetary relief, and submitted 28 reasonable accommodation and modification requests on behalf of people with disabilities. The erc also trained housing professionals and members of the community about fair housing and accessibility requirements, conducting 94 trainings for corporate clients that educated over 4,120 housing professionals. Erc filed five litigations centered on the issues of advertising bias, noncompliance with local tenant screening requirements, and discrimination against housing voucher holders. It entered into one settlement agreement to ensure fair treatment for renters with housing vouchers, past evictions and criminal records at multiple d.c. Properties. Finally, erc developed and distributed numerous mission related educational materials and participated in over 100 educational, community-oriented events throughout the course of the year.
$1,744,387 spent$556,114 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,744,387.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $2.7M (+38%).
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 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 41% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 55% · 2023 62% · 2024 50% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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
Annie Kate Scott
Executive director
Board chair
Robert Dinerstein
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $37k → $7k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER’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
THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
78% of THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER'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 $101k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k 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
THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER: 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 THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER?
- THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,963 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($345,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $463,963 in grants to THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $345,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing