Civil rights and advocacy organizations

There are 2,979 civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States. Combined, these civil rights and social justice organizations employ 49,577 people, earn more than $8 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $12 billion.

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Subcategories within civil rights and advocacy organizations:

Organizations supporting a civil rights or social justice nonprofit(51)
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice nonprofits(63)
Civil rights organizations(1,087)
- Women's rights groups (129)
- LGBT rights organizations (218)

Voter registration groups(462)
Civil liberties organizations(804)
- Pro-choice organizations (54)
- Pro-life organizations (154)

Types of civil rights and social justice organizations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Civil rights organizations	1,110	19,116	$3,485,312,518	$4,704,579,135
Civil liberties advocates and organizations	815	19,642	$2,738,077,704	$3,545,308,980
Voter registration and education organizations	462	5,422	$785,791,775	$606,818,245
LGBT rights organizations	218	2,960	$409,628,075	$354,448,637
Anti-abortion organizations	154	1,180	$101,627,534	$88,025,084
Women's rights advocacy organizations	129	1,362	$305,128,485	$489,914,420
Civil rights and social justice alliances and advocates	91	1,037	$229,797,739	$156,756,282
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice organizations	63	145	$79,850,636	$185,171,554
Pro-choice advocacy organizations	54	919	$211,574,323	$271,117,021
Organizations supporting a single civil rights or social justice organization	51	166	$435,721,640	$1,946,921,581

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Job trends for Civil rights and social justice organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	777
1-10	1,199
11-25	499
26-100	265
101 to 1,000	51
1,000+	4

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, Amnesty International, and Arise Child and Family Service.
The largest employers tend to be civil liberties organizations, civil rights organizations, voter registration groups, lgbt rights organizations, and civil rights and social justice organizations.

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	933
$250k to $1M	1,182
$1M to $5M	637
$5M to $25M	162
$25M to $100M	29
$100M+	8

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Aarp, New Venture Fund, National Rifle Association (NRA), University of Arkansas Foundation, 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 9.1% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Civil rights and social justice organizations with more than $100 million account for 38.8% 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 lgbt rights organizations.

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Naral Pro-Choice America

Promotion of social welfare and education of the public on matters related to reproductive rights. Political strategies - the political department serves as the organization's political representative with the other political organizations, our activist...

Revenue

$12.4m

Assets

$4.4m

Employees

EIN

13-2630359

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) promotes human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world.

Revenue

$8.8m

Assets

$29.7m

Employees

EIN

04-6186012

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Cei is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free market ...

Revenue

$7.3m

Assets

$3.9m

Employees

EIN

52-1351785

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Catholics for Choice

Catholics for choice's mission is to shape and advance sexual and reproductive ethics that are based on justice, reflect a commitment to women's well-being, and respect and affirm the capacity of men and women to make moral decisions about their lives. ...

Revenue

$2.7m

Assets

$15.7m

Employees

EIN

52-1154418

IRS type

501(c)(3)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

The ACLU is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advances civil liberties through extensive litigation, communications and public education programs. ACLU also advocates and lobbies legislatures at the federal and local level to advance civil liberties.

Revenue

$144.4m

Assets

$205.7m

Employees

162

EIN

13-3871360

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Third Way

Third Way is a Washington, D.C. based public policy think tank founded in 2005. The think tank develops political and policy ideas, conducts public opinion research, and hosts an array of public events, issues briefings, etc.

Revenue

$3.3m

Assets

$24.9m

Employees

EIN

20-1734070

IRS type

501(c)(4)

ACLU Foundation

The ACLU Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization with tax-deductible donations, which supports ACLU's litigation, communications, advocacy and public education efforts for civil liberties. The ACLU Foundation does not advocate and lobby in legislatures.

Revenue

$146.3m

Assets

$452.8m

Employees

363

EIN

13-6213516

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Compassion and Choices

Compassion & Choices of Washington (C&C) provides advocacy, counseling, and emotional support to qualified individuals who desire a peaceful, humane death.

Revenue

$9.0m

Assets

$10.8m

Employees

100

EIN

84-1328829

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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

$8.0m

Assets

$7.3m

Employees

EIN

13-3384027

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to reform, revitalize - and when necessary, defend - their country's systems of democracy and justice.

Revenue

$23.7m

Assets

$32.3m

Employees

164

EIN

13-3839293

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. 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.

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Civil rights and advocacy organizations

Types of civil rights and social justice organizations

Job trends for Civil rights and social justice organizations

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Naral Pro-Choice America

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Catholics for Choice

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Third Way

ACLU Foundation

Compassion and Choices

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

Brennan Center for Justice

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