California · Nonprofit
Universal Human Rights Initiative
Universal Human Rights Initiative (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,079 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND ENTREPR ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Universal Human Rights Initiative receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,998 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Waterford Foundationshared funders
- Fund for Global Human Rights Incportfolio match
- National Endowment for Democracyportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $22 → $8k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Universal Human Rights Initiative’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
Universal Human Rights Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 Universal Human Rights Initiative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 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
52% of Universal Human Rights Initiative'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Waterford Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Fund for Global Human Rights Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Endowment for Democracyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H C Gemmer Family Christian Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lynn Handleman Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pledges Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Jewish World Service Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alalusi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barzinji Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avaaz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Universal Human Rights Initiative
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Universal Human Rights Initiative: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Universal Human Rights Initiative?
- Universal Human Rights Initiative (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,079 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND ENTREPR ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Universal Human Rights Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $26,079 in grants to Universal Human Rights Initiative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Universal Human Rights Initiative?
- NATIONAL ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND ENTREPR is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Universal Human Rights Initiative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing