Human Rights Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 20-2669700. Reported 79 grants totalling $7,783,369 to 66 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Human Rights Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 19% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $38,915. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $85,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $1,595,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
41 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $5,126,301 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pmart Consultancy Inc | Chicago, IL | $1,595,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Justice for Venezuelans Foundation | Washington, DC | $775,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $600,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| World Liberty Congress Inc | New York, NY | $550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Avam Corporation | Cupertino, CA | $490,839 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bitcoin Policy Institute | Nashville, TN | $310,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Sats Initiative Inc | Punta Gorda, FL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Togolese Civil League | Wellington, FL | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Humano Y Libre Foundation Inc | Clearwater, FL | $179,722 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bitshala LLC | Austin, TX | $150,005 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Revive South Sudan Grant | Philadelphia, PA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coin Center Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crypto Open Patent Alliance | Palo Alto, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rescate Venezuela Inc | Miami, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summer of Bits Inc | Sheridan, WY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brink Technology Inc | Austin, TX | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gridless Inc | Charlotte, NC | $87,832 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zeus Ln LLC | Wayne, PA | $85,051 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free Africa Foundation | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Africa Bitcoin Conference | Casper, WY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mukai Intellectual Properties Inc | Des Plaines, IL | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rhr Media LLC | Austin, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voces De La Memoria Inc | Miami, FL | $68,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Btcplusplus LLC | Austin, TX | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Als Network | Woodland Hls, CA | $59,859 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Citizen Power Initiatives for China Inc | Brookline, MA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ideas Beyond Borders Inc | New York, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 256 Foundation | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anti-Corruption Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coracle Social LLC | Post Falls, ID | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Free Russia Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jabari Ennis | Palm Bay, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| My First Bitcoin Inc | Wading River, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zalla Inc | Cliffside Park, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| GR33D (gee Deer) | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Bee LLC | Park City, UT | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Services Inc | Manchester, NH | $38,915 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Permachive Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Students for a Free Tibet Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tabconf LLC | Marietta, GA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Economic Inclusion Group Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ideas Beyond Borders | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Libreria De Satoshi Inc | Middletown, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mother Nature Cambodia Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My First Bitcoin Inc | Wilmington, DE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Un Mundo Sin Mordaza Inc | College Sta, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Justice for Jamal | Austin, TX | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Blockchain Commons LLC | Cheyenne, WY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cadal Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Code to Inspire Inc | Dover, DE | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hong Kong Democracy Council USA | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Bee LLC | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Russian America for Democracy in Russia Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Suma Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $19,651 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for the Study of Organized Hate Inc | Washington, DC | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Khmer Democratic Rescue Foundation | Pomona, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| No Chain | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beit El Baraka USA | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Core Community Organized Relief Effort | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nifty Stakamoto LLC | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Renegade Relief Foundation Inc | Newberg, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trauma Research Foundation Inc | Needham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inhb Corporation | Wesley Chapel, FL | $9,995 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freedom House Inc | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stand With Hong Kong Action Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 66 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Pmart Consultancy Inc
VENEZUELA SOLIDARITY FUND - World Liberty Congress Inc
WLC FREEDOM ACADEMY/WLC FLIGHT EXPENSES - Avam Corporation
LONG TERM ACTIVIST SUPPORT - Togolese Civil League
BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND, FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP AWARD - Citizen Power Initiatives for China
BTC DEV FUND & CCP DISRUPTION INITIATIVE - Ideas Beyond Borders
GENERAL SUPPOT & BITCOIN DEVELOPMENT FUND
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 66 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $846,000 | $40,000 |
| 2021 | 4 | $80,000 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 8 | $233,915 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $1,750,083 | $41,850 |
| 2024 | 38 | $4,873,371 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
22% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $38,915 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Human Rights Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 17 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 350 Fifth Avenue 6500, New York, NY, 10118.
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