Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Legal name: Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463513193
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3052842547
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $568,373
- Expenses
- $611,591
- Assets
- $825,425
- Liabilities
- $119,188
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY ANNE FRANKS JD (PRESIDENT)
- DANIELLE CITRON JD (VICE PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
- MICHELLE GONZALEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE GONZALEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $94,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CCRI’s mission is to combat online abuses that threaten civil rights and civil liberties. History / Mission / Vision History In 2011, private, intimate images of Dr. Holly Jacobs were posted online and distributed without her consent to her employer, her peers, her friends, her family members, and to strangers online. This violation of her intimate privacy led to harassment and injury to her mental health, educational and professional opportunities, and relationships. Throughout her ordeal, she sought help from law enforcement and attorneys but found little support or understanding.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct service: in cy25, ccri provided emotional support, referrals, and information to 8,418 callers to the 24-7 ccri image abuse helpline. Outreach: ccri raised awareness and educated the public about image-based sexual abuse (ibsa) by sharing updated information on our website and social media accounts, giving presentations to universities and at conferences, participating in interviews, and publishing op-eds or responding to media inquiries. It is estimated that thousands of individuals benefited from this education and awareness-raising. Tech policy: ccri offered expert advice to tech companies regarding their policies, procedures, and products related to ibsa mitigation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $95.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $525K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.