California civil rights and social justice organizations

Name: Top 20 Civil rights and social justice organizations in California
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There are 2,057 civil rights and advocacy organizations in California. Combined, these Californian civil rights and social justice organizations employ 7,419 people, earn more than $1 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 billion.

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Types of civil rights and social justice organizations in California

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Civil rights organizations	951	4,884	$875,122,229	$1,527,847,077
Civil liberties advocates and organizations	247	900	$185,485,924	$379,306,684
LGBT rights organizations	242	993	$152,085,063	$192,818,776
Voter registration and education organizations	240	608	$163,236,534	$118,952,742
Civil rights and social justice alliances and advocates	175	369	$69,210,652	$99,272,300
Women's rights advocacy organizations	173	464	$105,293,831	$160,020,089
Civil rights and social justice professional societies	75	14	$7,017,292	$3,263,629
Anti-abortion organizations	61	222	$18,316,448	$31,324,804
Organizations supporting multiple civil rights and social justice organizations	35	71	$9,987,445	$2,704,115
Civil rights and social justice research and public policy institutes	24	138	$27,028,345	$62,771,889

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Civil rights and social justice organizations by major California cities

Metro area	Nonprofits	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Los Angeles	716	2,809	$407,834,052	$628,743,342
San Francisco	463	2,326	$614,462,193	$1,349,328,216
Sacramento	199	1,059	$172,871,397	$215,483,448
San Diego	175	388	$43,221,558	$63,459,254
Riverside	111	139	$21,732,281	$19,827,850
San Jose	94	136	$44,684,039	$45,612,225
Oxnard	36	71	$24,634,729	$9,414,162
Fresno	32	76	$10,271,624	$20,905,203
Santa Rosa	25	35	$12,976,720	$8,346,359
Santa Maria	21	28	$2,631,232	$3,745,538

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Job trends for California civil rights and social justice organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	240
1-10	164
11-25	67
26-100	67
101 to 1,000	15
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in California civil rights and social justice organizations is driven by large organizations like Disability Rights California, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Explore Freedom Services (EFS), Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), and Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC).

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations in California

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	401
$250k to $1M	166
$1M to $5M	128
$5M to $25M	64
$25M to $100M	7
$100M+	0

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like PolicyLink, Disability Rights California, Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), Mozilla Foundation, and Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in California civil rights and social justice organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 8.5% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in California civil rights and social justice organizations with more than $100 million account for 0.0% of nonprofit earnings.

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Eko and Affiliate

SumOfUs will organize consumers and citizens to pressure corporations to adopt policies that promote economic justice, the health and welfare of citizens and protection of the environment, in the nations in which these corporations operate.

Revenue

$9.1m

Assets

$834.4k

Employees

EIN

45-2513966

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Global Fund for Women

Global Fund for Women is one of the world's leading foundations for gender equality, standing up for the human rights of women and girls. It campaigns for zero violence, economic and political empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Revenue

$28.0m

Assets

$75.3m

Employees

EIN

77-0155782

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Out and Equal

Out & Equal Workplace Advocates is the world's premiere organization dedicated to achieving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace equality.

Revenue

$14.6m

Assets

$15.2m

Employees

EIN

02-0681855

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center (TLC) changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Revenue

$15.7m

Assets

$37.7m

Employees

EIN

05-0544006

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

Revenue

$21.6m

Assets

$56.3m

Employees

121

EIN

04-3091431

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Power California (MIV)

Power California mobilizes and trains young voters of color and families to lead year-round organizing and policy advocacy for a more just California.

Revenue

$5.1m

Assets

$9.4m

Employees

EIN

77-0651682

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality

Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality advances immigrant rights, economic justice, and education equity through legal services, policy advocacy, and a network of sponsored groups.

Revenue

$19.7m

Assets

$52.3m

Employees

162

EIN

94-2161304

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Founded in 1968, Maldef is the nation's leading latino civil rights Legal organization, promoting social change through advocacy, community education and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrants rights and political access.

Revenue

$7.3m

Assets

$21.3m

Employees

EIN

74-1563270

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Center for Justice and Accountability

Center for Justice and Accountability prosecutes human rights abusers through innovative litigation and advocacy, winning landmark verdicts and advancing accountability for torture and atrocity crimes.

Revenue

$5.4m

Assets

$3.6m

Employees

EIN

94-3299686

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Policing Equity

Policing Equity produces analyses to reduce racial disparities and supports vulnerable communities through data-driven interventions and triage response.

Revenue

$8.6m

Assets

$34.9m

Employees

151

EIN

81-4945849

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights empowers marginalized communities, reallocates resources from prisons to opportunities, and advocates for racial and economic justice.

Revenue

$8.0m

Assets

$21.6m

Employees

EIN

94-3252009

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC)

The Center's multifaceted mission generates changes through the Snider Social Action Institute and education by confronting antisemitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide.

Revenue

$37.9m

Assets

$104.7m

Employees

173

EIN

95-3964928

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Dreamorg

Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

Revenue

$5.7m

Assets

$26.8m

Employees

EIN

26-1140201

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Asian Law Caucus

Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus promotes API legal and civil rights, with a Workers' Rights program, and convenes the Asian American Leaders Table.

Revenue

$12.6m

Assets

$35.2m

Employees

EIN

94-2176139

IRS type

501(c)(3)

StandWithUs

StandWithUs is dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating the extremism and anti-Semitism that often distorts the issues.

Revenue

$27.1m

Assets

$33.8m

Employees

156

EIN

01-0566033

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Gsa Network

GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.

Revenue

$5.1m

Assets

$4.3m

Employees

EIN

20-5367752

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California Immigrant Policy Center

California Immigrant Policy Center upholds immigrant and refugee rights through advocacy, communications, and organizing in Los Angeles.

Revenue

$10.2m

Assets

$12.0m

Employees

EIN

81-5304541

IRS type

501(c)(3)

VotingWorks

VotingWorks builds secure, affordable election technology to increase trust by promoting transparency, simplicity, and demonstrable security.

Revenue

$16.0m

Assets

$17.3m

Employees

EIN

83-2910494

IRS type

501(c)(3)

National Day Laborer Organizing Network

National Day Laborer Organizing Network empowers day laborers and migrants, promoting their rights through leadership development, community organizing, and arts integration.

Revenue

$10.7m

Assets

$19.5m

Employees

EIN

20-8802586

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Greenlining Institute

The Greenlining Institute empowers communities of color by advocating for economic equity, climate resilience, and accountability from public and private sectors.

Revenue

$12.0m

Assets

$44.4m

Employees

EIN

94-3173571

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.

California civil rights and social justice organizations

Types of civil rights and social justice organizations in California

Civil rights and social justice organizations by major California cities

Job trends for California civil rights and social justice organizations

Sizes of civil rights and social justice organizations in California

Directory of civil rights and social justice organizations in California

Eko and Affiliate

Global Fund for Women

Out and Equal

Transgender Law Center

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Power California (MIV)

Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality

Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Center for Justice and Accountability

Policing Equity

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC)

Dreamorg

Asian Law Caucus

StandWithUs

Gsa Network

California Immigrant Policy Center

VotingWorks

National Day Laborer Organizing Network

The Greenlining Institute

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