Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy
Overview
Mission
The purpose is to protect and promote human rights of Tibetan people.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, TCHRD carried out advocacy and capacity-building workshops with Tibetan community members to raise awareness and counte the growing threat of Chinas transnational repression. Additionally, TCHRD worked on monitoring, research and documentation of human rights violations inside Tibet to amplify the human rights issues faced by Tibetans inside Tibet and advocate on their behalf in the international community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843577276
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Headquarters
- San Pablo, CA, USA
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.17; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.