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ADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

EIN 20-3384725 WOODSIDE, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,334,193
Expenses 2024
$2,348,191

Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q70
Classification
1000
Street
7107 WOODSIDE AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ADHIKAAR IS A WOMEN-LED COMMUNITY AND WORKERS CENTER THAT PROVIDES DIRECT SERVICES TO THE NEPALI-SPEAKING COMMUNITY AND ORGANIZES LOW-INCOME WORKERS AND IMPACTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

  • ADHIKAAR ADVANCES DIGNITY AND JUSTICE FOR WORKING-CLASS IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES PRIMARILY FROM NEPAL, BHUTAN, INDIA, BURMA AND OF TIBETAN DESCENDANT THAT SPEAK NEPALI THROUGH AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND DIRECT SERVICES. ROOTED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, ADHIKAAR BUILDS POWER BY ORGANIZING DOMESTIC WORKERS, NAIL SALON WORKERS, AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AROUND WORKERS RIGHTS, IMMIGRATION PROTECTIONS SUCH AS TPS, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, WHILE ALSO PROVIDING CRITICAL DIRECT SERVICES INCLUDING ENGLISH FOR EMPOWERMENT, NEW IMMIGRANT NAVIGATION, HEALTHCARE ACCESS, CASE MANAGEMENT, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING. THROUGH COMMUNITY EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, AND ADVOCACY, ADHIKAAR ENSURES THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT ONLY SUPPORTED IN MEETING IMMEDIATE NEEDS, BUT ARE EQUIPPED TO LEAD, ORGANIZE, AND SHAPE POLICIES THAT IMPACT THEIR LIVES AND COMMUNITIES. IN 2025 ADHIKAAR CELEBRATED A MAJOR VICTORY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE NEW JERSEY DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS. ADDITIONALLY, ADHIKAARS IMPACT THROUGH OUR DIRECT SERVICES AND ORGANIZING ARE AS FOLLOWS: EXPANDED HEALTHCARE ACCESS TO NEARLY 1,200 INDIVIDUALS. REACHED OVER 500 PEOPLE IN KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAININGS. SUPPORTED OVER 500 INDIVIDUALS IN CPR, NANNY, AND ON THE JOB NAIL SALON HEALTH TRAINING THROUGH OUR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. ASSISTED OVER 350 INDIVIDUALS THROUGH CASEWORK SERVICES IN IMMIGRATION, WAGE THEFT, WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION, LABOR, AND HOUSING, GOVERNMENT BENEFITS AND LABOR TRAFFICKING. SUPPORTED OVER 200 INDIVIDUALS IN LITERACY TRAINING WITH 75% STUDENT RETENTION.

    Expenses $1,788,744 · Grants $32,500 · Revenue $150

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • NARBADA CHHETRI

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,947
    From this org
    $115,947
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CYNTHIA SAXENA

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $65,000
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ASTHA SHARMA POKHAREL

    BOARD CHAIR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CYNTHIA GREENBERG

    TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MAYADEVI ROSS

    SECRETARY/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RINA GURUNG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SHARON LEE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SEEMA AGNANI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • VIJAY SIMHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SOOKYUNG OH

    DIRECTOR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,334,193
    Expenses
    $2,348,191
    Contributions
    $2,325,589
    Grants paid
    $32,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,334,193
    Expenses
    $2,348,191
    Contributions
    $2,325,589
    Grants paid
    $32,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,130,012
    Expenses
    $2,500,302
    Contributions
    $2,107,881
    Grants paid
    $50,425
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,130,012
    Expenses
    $2,500,302
    Contributions
    $2,107,881
    Grants paid
    $50,425
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,777,080
    Expenses
    $2,396,322
    Contributions
    $2,757,803
    Grants paid
    $58,125

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,946,445
    Expenses
    $1,795,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,196,435

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,292,956
    Expenses
    $1,204,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,147,454

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,709,373
    Expenses
    $1,180,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,038,721

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,709,499
    Expenses
    $1,181,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,043,998

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $767,172
    Expenses
    $915,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,343,199

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,287,804
    Expenses
    $898,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,492,110

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,106,460
    Expenses
    $884,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,113,196

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,080,774
    Expenses
    $711,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $870,823

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $568,177
    Expenses
    $492,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,426

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $279,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,453

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.