Rights Counsel

Analysis

Rights Counsel is a registered charity in United States, based in Braselton, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Rights Counsel reported income of $68k and spending of $61k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $213k to $68k (-68%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Rights Counsel sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Operation Medical ($68k), International Female Lawyers and Advocate Association Inc ($68k) and Advita Fund USA ($68k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% and program service revenue 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7,659 against liabilities of $25k, net assets of -$17k.