Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680005541
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3234674242
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Human Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,095,583
Expenses
$2,194,436
Assets
$516,077
Liabilities
$58,196

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FRAN ANDREWS (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • MARLA FILIDEI (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JAN EASTGATE MEYER (DIRECTOR/NON-OFFICER EMPLOYEE): $84,500 total reported compensation
  • FRAN ANDREWS (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR): $84,500 total reported compensation
  • MARLA FILIDEI (VICE PRESIDENT): $84,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The citizens commission on human rights (cchr) is a non-profit, 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 and upheld as there is rampant abuse in the field of mental health.

What it reported doing in 2024

Informational clearinghouse & hotline: cchr's website, www.cchrint.org, provides a means for people to become better informed about the mental health industry. The website includes the psychiatric drug side effects database where people can search and find the documented side effects and adverse reactions for psychiatric drugs, as well as international drug regulatory agency warnings and studies published on psychiatric drugs. In addition to the interactive database, there are web pages summarizing the documented risks of the main classes of psychiatric drugs.cchr also has its www.psychcrime.org website, which includes the psychiatric crime and disciplinary actions database. This database contains searchable information about psychiatrists and psychologists, and other mental health professionals, who have been criminally convicted and/or sentenced, as well as those who have been disciplined by state medical or psychology and other healthcare boards for discreditable conduct.an additional website, fightforkids.org, is a specialized service for parents to obtain information on pediatric-youth psychiatric treatments and abuse in order to protect their children from these.the cchrint.org website also includes cchr's abuse case management system where the public can easily report psychiatric abuse online and cchr can document and assist these abuse cases. Cchr also provides a toll-free hotline to report incidents of psychiatric abuse, fraud, or other criminal conduct or mental health rights violations, and to request free information or assistance with filing complaints to the appropriate authorities. The hotline and online abuse case report form are promoted through cchr's websites, media releases, and through social media.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.