Media and Human Rights Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874822276
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026509754
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Censorship, Freedom of Speech and Press
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,677
- Expenses
- $104,868
- Assets
- $10,171
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashraf Ahmed (President)
- Joshua Todd (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ashraf Ahmed (President)
- Joshua Todd (Vice President)
- Khouloud Moustafa (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our purpose is to promote freedom of expression and media and human rights culture within local communities in the Middle East and North Africa. We support the independence of the media and providing a safe working environment for journalists and protect their economic and social rights. We aim to reduce rates of violations against media and expression freedoms, and we support the high professional and ethical standards of media through capacity building programs and technical support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Media and Human Rights Community received funding from Czech-based People in Need to provide legal support to ensure the respect of journalism and media freedoms in Egypt. This included publishing a research paper on the effects of restrictive laws and regulations on journalism, a report on the threat posed by rising prices in cameras and photography equipment to photojournalists, a paper on the negative effects of the labor law on working women, an evaluation of the performance of the newly elected journalist syndicate council, and two guides on ethically covering funerals for photojournalists and gender-sensitive writing for journalists. We received support contributing to our legal support to journalists and media professionals, which helped 53 individuals in 15 criminal cases and 34 labor disputes cases in court, Ministry of Justice and within the journalist's syndicate. These mostly focused on arbitrary or wrongful dismissal of journalists by their employees with 32 cases filed. For criminal issues, we provided support on cases which included charges of spreading false news, joining a terrorist group, using an internet account to commit a crime, and protesting without a permit, among others. The legal support included attending investigations, detention renewal sessions, pleading before courts, writing lawsuits, appealing judgements, and appearing before committees and courts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -55.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.