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Civil rights and advocacy organizations

There are 2,153 civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States. Combined, these civil rights and social justice organizations employ 46,834 people, earn more than $6 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $8 billion.

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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.

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.

Subcategories within civil rights and advocacy organizations:

Voter registration groups(185)
Civil liberties organizations(572)
- Pro-choice organizations (38)
- Pro-life organizations (79)

Types of civil rights and social justice organizations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Civil rights and social justice advocacy organizations	733	15,878	$2,875,420,186	$3,982,775,364
Civil liberties advocates and organizations	592	21,001	$2,261,254,672	$2,797,763,253
Voter registration and education organizations	185	2,768	$298,009,651	$249,893,308
LGBTQ+ rights organizations	114	1,649	$223,934,406	$197,821,915
Civil rights and social justice alliances and advocates	88	772	$190,432,845	$129,362,431
Anti-abortion organizations	79	542	$44,878,236	$36,836,870
Women's rights advocacy organizations	53	551	$111,654,113	$223,219,895
Pro-choice advocacy organizations	38	590	$95,877,354	$119,473,775
Civil rights and social justice research and public policy institutes	32	372	$127,657,954	$132,325,146
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice organizations	18	83	$64,076,097	$173,500,756

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Job trends for Civil rights and social justice organizations

Employment in Civil rights and social justice organizations is driven by large organizations like Fund for the Public Interest, Aarp, Center for Disability Rights (CDR), Amnesty International, and Individual Advocacy Group (IAG).
The largest employers tend to be civil liberties organizations, civil rights advocacy groups, civil rights and social justice organizations, and voter registration groups.

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations

Large organizations like Aarp, New Venture Fund, National Rifle Association (NRA), ACLU Foundation, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Civil rights and social justice organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 8.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Civil rights and social justice organizations with more than $100 million account for 40.5% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be civil rights advocacy groups, civil liberties organizations, civil rights and social justice organizations, voter registration groups, and lgbt rights organizations.

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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

$8.0m

Assets

$7.3m

Employees

EIN

13-3384027

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Friends of the Earth US

Friends of the Earth fights to defend the environment and create a more healthy and just world. We are part of a federation of grassroots groups in 76 countries.

Revenue

$913.9k

Assets

$703.6k

Employees

EIN

13-2644641

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Physicians For Reproductive Health

We are a physican-led organization which uses evidence-based medicine to promote sound reproductive health policies. We believe in reproductive choice for everyone. We are a physician-led organization which uses evidence-based medicine to promote sound ...

Revenue

$3.7m

Assets

$6.6m

Employees

EIN

13-3693391

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Alliance Defending Freedom

To defend the right to hear and speak the truth through strategy, training, funding and litigation. Direct litigationalliance defending freedom (adf) defends human and civil rights, secured by law, through direct litigation from our headquarters office ...

Revenue

$55.2m

Assets

$35.1m

Employees

289

EIN

54-1660459

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations

Directory of civil rights and social justice organizations

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

Friends of the Earth US

Physicians For Reproductive Health

Alliance Defending Freedom

Third Way

ACLU Foundation

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Brennan Center for Justice

Naral Pro-Choice America

Competitive Enterprise Institute

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