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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC

EIN 52-1243457 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$50,102,401
Expenses 2024
$53,257,144

Program services were 68.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R26
Classification
1000
Street
1640 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW

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

THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN IS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND QUEER (LGBTQ+) COMMUNITY. BY INSPIRING AND ENGAGING INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES, HRC STRIVES TO END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND REALIZE A WORLD THAT ACHIEVES FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY FOR ALL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AMERICA'S LARGEST CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION WORKING TO ACHIEVE LGBTQ+ EQUALITY.

  • FEDERAL, FIELD, AND LEGAL ADVOCACY: HRC ADVOCATES FOR FULL LEGAL EQUALITY FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AT THE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS. IN FY25, WE PROMOTED PRO-EQUALITY LEGISLATION, OPPOSED DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES, AND EDUCATED LAWMAKERS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PRO-LGBTQ+ INCLUSION IN SCHOOLS, WORKPLACES, AND THROUGHOUT PUBLIC LIFE. THROUGH ADVOCACY, RESEARCH, AND COALITION-BUILDING, HRC CONTINUED ITS WORK TO ADVANCE FAIR POLICIES, DEFEND AGAINST HARMFUL LEGISLATION, AND STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS NATIONWIDE.

    Expenses $15,049,089 · Grants $68,973

  • MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION AND MOBILIZATION: WITH MORE THAN 3.6 MILLION MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS, HRC MOBILIZES PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO TAKE ACTION FOR EQUALITY. THROUGH EVENTS, PRIDE CELEBRATIONS, AND COMMUNITY-LED ENGAGEMENT, WE CONTINUED TO ELEVATE LGBTQ+ LEADERS, BUILD VOLUNTEER NETWORKS, AND EXPAND PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR OUR MISSION.

    Expenses $11,978,857 · Grants $576,326 · Revenue $233,958

  • COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA ADVOCACY: HRC DRIVES PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ+ EQUALITY THROUGH STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA ENGAGEMENT. BY TELLING OUR COMMUNITY'S STORIES AND RESPONDING TO KEY NATIONAL MOMENTS, HRC AMPLIFIED LGBTQ+ VOICES, HELPED SHAPE PUBLIC DISCOURSE, AND STRENGTHENED VISIBILITY FOR EQUALITY EFFORTS ACROSS MAJOR AND COMMUNITY MEDIA OUTLETS. SOCIAL MEDIA, WEBINARS, AND DIGITAL TRAINING ENABLED HRC TO REACH THE MEDIA, MEMBERS, AND THE PUBLIC AND AMPLIFY OUR WORK TOWARD FULL EQUALITY.

    Expenses $5,013,332 · Grants $20,796

  • PUBLIC POLICY, EDUCATION & TRAINING

    Expenses $4,386,501 · Grants $83,247

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

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.

  • ELIZABETH SCHLESINGER BOARD

    MEMBER - UNTIL 10/24, BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.25

  • MORGAN COX BOARD

    CHAIR - UNTIL 10/24, BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • GWEN BABA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • JORDAN BARTH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • SANDY BASS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.25

  • BRUCE BASTIAN

    BOARD MEMBER - UNTIL 06/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • JOY BOWLING

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • PERCY BROWN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • SOPHIA BUSH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • JAMES COSTOS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • CORDY ELKINS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • MELANIE FALLS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • MATT GARRETT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • TODD HAWKINS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • MATT HENDRY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • CHRISTINA HERNANDEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • SHERIE HUGHES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • JAY KUO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • ANDREW LA BADIE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • JUSTIN MIKITA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • KAREN MORGAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • DYSHAUN MUHAMMAD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.25

  • MARCIA NAMOWITZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.75

  • JODIE PATTERSON

    BOARD MEMBER - AS OF 08/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • LESTER PERRYMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

The first 25 listed. 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
    $50,102,401
    Expenses
    $53,257,144
    Contributions
    $46,084,583
    Grants paid
    $749,342
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $45,862,455
    Expenses
    $51,860,001
    Contributions
    $42,556,918
    Grants paid
    $674,875
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $49,995,999
    Expenses
    $53,808,604
    Contributions
    $45,271,630
    Grants paid
    $1,374,122

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
    $38,742,942
    Expenses
    $40,184,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,980,344

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,336,214
    Expenses
    $35,203,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,308,735

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,604,113
    Expenses
    $43,640,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,762,182

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,947,596
    Expenses
    $49,318,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,276,643

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,636,641
    Expenses
    $43,167,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,710,097

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $41,701,818
    Expenses
    $39,428,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,197,772

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,406,084
    Expenses
    $37,334,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,384,278

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,406,706
    Expenses
    $38,284,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,981,681

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $38,538,422
    Expenses
    $35,393,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,049,078

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $37,402,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,810,415

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • HRC PAC

    527 · POLITICAL WORK IN STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTIONS · DC · controlled entity

  • HRC EQUALITY VOTES

    527 · POLITICAL WORK IN STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTIONS · DC · controlled entity

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $2,477,503 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $1,870,375 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $2,394,616 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $1,445,194 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $1,421,255 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $492,868 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $808,664 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$408,818 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $104,823 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$416,318 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $39,323 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$28,178 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $426,674 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $79,129 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $102,318 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$88,176 to charity

  • NORDSTROM INC.

    $100,000 in sales

    2019 Commercial Coventurer

    $100,000 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.