Civil rights and advocacy organizations

Name: Top 10 Civil rights and social justice organizations
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There are 14,001civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States. Combined, these civil rights and social justice organizationsemploy 59,780 people, earn more than $11 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $15 billion.

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Subcategories within civil rights and advocacy organizations:

Voter registration groups(1,560)
Civil liberties organizations(1,707)
- Pro-choice organizations(149)
- Pro-life organizations(450)

Types of civil rights and social justice organizations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Civil rights organizations	4,747	27,175	$4,600,282,617	$6,435,799,468
Civil liberties advocates and organizations	1,707	12,108	$2,469,531,845	$3,451,431,441
Voter registration and education organizations	1,560	15,637	$1,673,969,224	$1,396,481,935
Civil rights and social justice alliances and advocates	1,158	1,462	$398,853,388	$418,277,622
LGBT rights organizations	944	4,164	$635,175,983	$670,695,652
Women's rights advocacy organizations	846	5,578	$706,868,156	$1,311,500,913
Anti-abortion organizations	450	1,256	$106,395,601	$94,915,859
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice organizations	355	405	$171,357,905	$328,733,616
Organizations supporting a single civil rights or social justice organization	220	177	$1,201,414,634	$2,759,764,473
Civil rights and social justice research and public policy institutes	187	487	$101,825,658	$156,718,318

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Job trends for Civil rights and social justice organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	1,232
1-10	1,387
11-25	615
26-100	355
101 to 1,000	89
1,000+	3

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Civil rights and social justice organizations is driven by large organizations like Fund for the Public Interest, Center for Disability Rights (CDR), Aarp, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights, and National Rifle Association (NRA).
The largest employers tend to be civil rights organizations, voter registration groups, civil liberties organizations, women's rights groups, and lgbt rights organizations.

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	2,882
$250k to $1M	1,311
$1M to $5M	863
$5M to $25M	256
$25M to $100M	43
$100M+	9

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Aarp, Fund for Policy Reform, National Rifle Association (NRA), The Carter Center Collaborative, and ACLU Foundation earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Civil rights and social justice organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 8.3% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Civil rights and social justice organizations with more than $100 million account for 33.5% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be civil rights organizations, civil liberties organizations, voter registration groups, organizations supporting a civil rights or social justice nonprofit, and women's rights groups.

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Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

GLAAD amplifies the voice of the LGBT community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, and helping grassroots organizations communicate effectively.

Revenue

$17.3m

Assets

$30.3m

Employees

EIN

13-3384027

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media (CSM) is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children.

Revenue

$25.4m

Assets

$29.0m

Employees

156

EIN

41-2024986

IRS type

501(c)(3)

EarthRights International

EarthRights International (ERI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of lawyers, trainers and organizers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability.

Revenue

$5.6m

Assets

$9.8m

Employees

EIN

04-3265555

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights

Heartland Alliance advances the human rights and responds to the human needs of endangered populations particularly the poor, the isolated, and the displaced through the provision of comprehensive and respectful services and the promotion of permanent s...

Revenue

$51.1m

Assets

$43.9m

Employees

897

EIN

36-1877640

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Naacp Empowerment Programs Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

NAACP secures the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Revenue

$28.0m

Assets

$20.9m

Employees

180

EIN

13-1084135

IRS type

501(c)(3)

MoveOn.Org Civic Action

MoveOn.org Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, focuses on education and advocacy, providing civic engagement tools to the public and building the progressive movement by encouraging and supporting the development of more grassroots leaders.

Revenue

$12.7m

Assets

$5.6m

Employees

104

EIN

06-1553389

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)

The Center for Reproductive Rights promotes women's equality worldwide by securing reproductive rights in constitutional and international human rights law.

Revenue

$31.9m

Assets

$46.6m

Employees

208

EIN

13-3669731

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Rock the Vote

Rock the Vote is organized primarily for the purposes of education and training of youth on youth civic engagement. Rock the Vote coordinates voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote events, and voter education efforts, all with the intention of ensu...

Revenue

$1.3m

Assets

$1.7m

Employees

EIN

02-0767157

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Philanthropy Roundtable

To foster excellence in Philanthropy, to protect philanthropic freedom, to assist donors in achieving their philanthropic intent, and to help donors advance liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility in America and abroad. To assist donors in achi...

Revenue

$9.8m

Assets

$16.1m

Employees

EIN

13-2943020

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Center for Community Change (CCC)

The Center for Community Change's mission is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better.

Revenue

$54.8m

Assets

$54.4m

Employees

106

EIN

52-0888113

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "R00: Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

Civil rights and advocacy organizations

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Job trends for Civil rights and social justice organizations

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Directory of civil rights and social justice organizations

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

Common Sense Media

EarthRights International

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights

Naacp Empowerment Programs Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

MoveOn.Org Civic Action

Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)

Rock the Vote

The Philanthropy Roundtable

Center for Community Change (CCC)

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