Civil Rights Corps
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813422012
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028444975
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Liberties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,566,408
- Expenses
- $7,201,151
- Assets
- $12,685,333
- Liabilities
- $1,438,578
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIELLE DUPUY-WATSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIELLE DUPUY-WATSON (CEO): $209,888 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH ROSSI (DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES): $205,413 total reported compensation
- JEFFREY STEIN (LEGAL DIR - SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM): $205,402 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our work is guided by a commitment to the people and communities harmed by policing, surveillance, incarceration, discrimination, and the criminalization of poverty. We work with individuals accused of crimes, people currently and formerly incarcerated, their families and communities as well as organizers, policy organizations, continued in sch o
What it reported doing in 2025
Crc has challenged pretrial detention, cash bail, fines and fees, debtors prisons, mass supervision and surveillance, corporate profiteering, brutality, family separation, and other aspects of the punishment bureaucracy that oppress poor people and disproportionately harm marginalized communities. The goals of this work have centered on reducing the size and power of carceral bureaucracies reducing the ability of corporations and governments to profit off of caging people preventing family separation increasing fairness, equality, and justice in the system and reimagining health and safety. The criminal legal systems most fundamental claim is that it brings accountability when someone has broken the law. Anyone with significant experience in the system quickly realizes this form of accountability is almost exclusively sought against poor people, especially poor people of color. Continued in sch o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th 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: -57.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $210K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $107K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.