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Boston civil rights and social justice organizations

There are 320 civil rights and advocacy organizations in the greater Boston metro area, including the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Framingham, Newton, and Waltham. Combined, these Boston metro civil rights and social justice organizations employ 860 people, earn more than $133 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $220 million.
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Types of civil rights and social justice organizations in Boston

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Civil rights organizations
 
121
 
$61,819,331
Voter registration and education organizations
 
55
 
$23,100,877
Civil liberties advocates and organizations
 
43
 
$33,240,085
Civil rights and social justice alliances and advocates
 
37
 
$5,740,621
LGBT rights organizations
 
32
 
$20,480,845
Women's rights advocacy organizations
 
19
 
$2,278,011
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice organizations
 
5
 
$0
Anti-abortion organizations
 
5
 
$1,245,949
Pro-choice advocacy organizations
 
5
 
$2,646,865
Civil rights and social justice research and public policy institutes
 
4
 
$3,133,605
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Job trends for Boston civil rights and social justice organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
31
1-10
 
39
11-25
 
11
26-100
 
13
101 to 1,000
 
0
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations in Boston

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
69
$250k to $1M
 
32
$1M to $5M
 
26
$5M to $25M
 
7
$25M to $100M
 
0
$100M+
 
0
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Directory of civil rights and social justice organizations in Boston

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MuckRock Foundation

MuckRock is a non-profit news site that promotes transparency by requesting, analyzing, and sharing government documents.
Revenue
$5.3m
Assets
$4.0m
Employees
28
EIN
81-1485228
IRS type
501(c)(3)

ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts

Defends freedoms through litigation and education. Provides legal support to advance civil liberties and rights. Located in Boston, MA.
Revenue
$5.4m
Assets
$30.5m
Employees
67
EIN
47-3686152
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Glad Law (GLAD)

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.
Revenue
$10.8m
Assets
$11.9m
Employees
38
EIN
04-2660498
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Disability Rights Fund (DRF)

DRF supports DPO in the developing world to take the lead in advocating for the human rights of persons with disabilities at local and national levels, utilizing the mechanism of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Revenue
$7.6m
Assets
$12.6m
Employees
9
EIN
27-5026293
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Cultural Survival

Cultural Survival is a global leader in the fight to protect indigenous lands, languages, and cultures around the world. In partnership with indigenous peoples, they advocate for native communities whose rights, cultures, and dignity are under threat.
Revenue
$10.5m
Assets
$17.3m
Employees
19
EIN
23-7182593
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Turnup Activism

Turnup Activism is a hub for civic engagement, youth voter registration, and social justice campaigns through mobile apps and training programs.
Revenue
$5.3m
Assets
$6.3m
Employees
4
EIN
83-3917641
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Institute for Clinical and Economic Review

ICER is an independent organization providing evidence-based healthcare solutions to achieve higher-value care for Americans.
Revenue
$6.7m
Assets
$12.2m
Employees
37
EIN
46-3250612
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Center for Public Interest Research

The Center for Public Interest Research conducts research, organizing, community service, and public education around critical public interest issues.
Revenue
$3.1m
Assets
$5.9m
Employees
16
EIN
04-2863170
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Visions (Visions Inc)

VISIONS Inc is a pioneering multicultural training and consulting organization that initiates a positive learning journey for people and groups to become catalysts for change.
Revenue
$3.0m
Assets
$2.0m
Employees
36
EIN
52-1378064
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lawyers' committee for Civil Rights and economic justice, Inc. (the organization") is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal organization that fosters equal opportunity and fights discrimination on behalf of people of color and immigrants.
Revenue
$4.9m
Assets
$6.6m
Employees
16
EIN
04-3490614
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Promise Education Fund

American Promise Education Fund educates, inspires and empowers Americans to strengthen democracy through citizen-led constitutional amendments.
Revenue
$3.9m
Assets
$2.2m
Employees
48
EIN
47-4601462
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Vot-Er

Vot-Er envisions a healthy country powered by a more inclusive American democracy. It promotes civic engagement and equitable healthcare access in Boston.
Revenue
$4.5m
Assets
$1.8m
Employees
57
EIN
86-2040929
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY)

BAGLY provides community-based leadership development, health promotion and social support programs for Massachusetts LGBTQ youth communities, and is a leader in local and national LGBTQ youth advocacy work and workforce development.
Revenue
$3.2m
Assets
$4.3m
Employees
40
EIN
04-2785336
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Keshet

Keshet advocates for LGBTQ+ Jews' equality, empowers queer youth, strengthens Jewish communities, and promotes inclusion through training, resources, and nationwide advocacy.
Revenue
$4.5m
Assets
$7.6m
Employees
35
EIN
48-1278664
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Disability Policy Consortium

Disability Policy Consortium advocates for public policy that positively impacts the lives of people with disabilities by redefining the government's role. Their programs focus on advocacy for persons with disabilities.
Revenue
$2.2m
Assets
$1.2m
Employees
25
EIN
04-3570281
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Haymarket People's Fund

Haymarket People's Fund is an anti-racist and multi-cultural foundation that is committed to strengthening the movement for social justice in New England.
Revenue
$2.8m
Assets
$13.9m
Employees
5
EIN
04-2586725
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Parents for Peace

Parents for Peace is a civil rights or social justice alliances or advocate in Brookline, MA whose mission is: Parents for Peace empowers families to prevent extremism, offering support and a help-line.
Revenue
$1.6m
Assets
$1.1m
Employees
9
EIN
47-4142897
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Reproductive Equity Now Foundation

Reproductive Equity Now Foundation is a pro-choice advocacy organization in Boston, MA whose mission is: Advocating for reproductive rights, including access to safe abortion, education and resources.
Revenue
$1.7m
Assets
$1.8m
Employees
0
EIN
04-2679358
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Tides for Reproductive Freedom

Tides for Reproductive Freedom offers funding and support to people seeking access to abortion services, regardless of identity.
Revenue
$751.1k
Assets
$1.2m
Employees
4
EIN
86-2456665
IRS type
501(c)(3)

New Hampshire Democracy Fund

NH Democracy Fund promotes healthy democracy by supporting voting rights, fair mapping, non-partisan leadership development opportunities for civic engagement.
Revenue
$1.5m
Assets
$516.4k
Employees
4
EIN
84-4003182
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.
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