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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

Totals

Total revenue
$198,000
Total expenses
$281,127
Contributions and grants received
$193,313
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$4,312
Other revenue
$375
Total assets, end of year
$469,375
Total liabilities, end of year
$7,612
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$461,763
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$187,101
Management and general expenses
$84,665
Fundraising expenses
$9,361
Program service expenses (Part III)
$187,101

Program services were 66.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $193,313

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4,312 · excluded $4,312

  • 11a · Other revenue: REFERRAL FEES

    total $375 · excluded $375

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $375

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $160,930 · program services $160,930

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $12,569 · program services $12,569

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $26,382 · program services $408 · management and general $25,974

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $23,859 · program services $8,915 · management and general $11,629 · fundraising $3,315

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,600 · program services $238 · management and general $3,362

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $21,548 · management and general $21,548

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,811 · program services $2,545 · fundraising $2,266

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $7,315 · program services $1,035 · management and general $2,500 · fundraising $3,780

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $19,276 · management and general $19,276

  • 24a · Other expenses: DUES

    total $337 · program services $242 · management and general $95

  • 24b · Other expenses: PROPERTY TAX

    total $281 · management and general $281

  • 24c · Other expenses: CONTINUING EDUCATION

    total $219 · program services $219

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $550,674 · end of year $469,171

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $204 · end of year $204

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $60,574

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $60,574

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $5,988 · end of year $7,612

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $544,890 · end of year $461,763

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF AUSTIN (CCHR OF AUSTIN) IS A NON-POLITICAL, NON-RELIGIOUS MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY WATCHDOG WHOSE MISSION IS TO ERADICATE ABUSES COMMITTED UNDER THE GUISE OF MENTAL HEALTH. WE WORK TO ENSURE PATIENT AND CONSUMER PROTECTIONS ARE ENACTED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INVESTIGATE AND EXPOSE PSYCHIATRIC VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

  • PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:PUBLIC AWARENESSIN 2024 CCHR AUSTIN CONTINUED ON A STATE LEVEL AND NATIONALLY TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE DANGERS OF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGGING, THE NEED FOR INCREASED WARNINGS AND GREATER AVENUES OF INFORMED CONSENT. IN ADDITION IT CONTINUED ITS STATEWIDE SPEAKING TOUR, GIVING PRESENTATIONS IN LOCATIONS RANGING FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TO THE TEXAS COAST, EDUCATING PARENTS AND PARENT GROUPS ON PARENTAL RIGHTS IN SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH. CCHR AUSTIN CONTINUED ITS CHILDREN'S CRUSADE TO EDUCATE PARENTS AND OTHERS ON HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES ON ISSUES SURROUNDING SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND PARENTAL CONSENT. MANY PARENTS SHOWED UP TO THE CAPITOL TO RELAY THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING. CCHR AUSTIN CONTINUED TO SERVICE ALLIED GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS, AND ATTORNEYS, EDUCATING THEM ON ISSUES INCLUDING CONSENT, AND THE PROBLEM OF PATIENTS BEING HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL IN PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES.RESEARCHING PSYCHIATRIC ABUSEDURING 2024, CCHR AUSTIN RESPONDED TO SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH RELATED COMPLAINTS, AS WELL AS SEEING A POST-COVID RETURN OF ALLEGATIONS FROM PATIENTS AND LOVED ONES THAT THEY WERE HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL IN PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES. THIS LED TO A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS BEING FILED.

    Expenses $152,195

  • LEGISLATIVE:CCHR AUSTIN EDUCATED LEGISLATORS ON VARIOUS COMMITTEES ABOUT ISSUES OF PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE, INCLUDING VOLUNTARY PATIENTS BEING HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS. CCHR AUSTIN ALSO EDUCATED LEGISLATORS ON A NUMBER OF MENTAL HEATLH ACTIVITIES BEING CONDUCTED IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. MANY PARENTS CAME TO THE CAPITOL TO TELL LEGISLATORS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

    Expenses $34,906

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jerry Boswell

    PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Robert Crosley

    SECRETARY & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brett Gow

    TREASURER & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lee Spiller

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $42,071
    From this org
    $42,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Fran Andrews

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carla Moxon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Serenity MacDonald

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202533219349316603

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