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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: August 2026 Expires: August 2028

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(415) 523-0360
2601 Blanding Avenue, Suite C, #155
Alameda, CA, 94501
https://urgentactionfund.org/
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Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to support women's human rights defenders striving to create cultures of justice, equality, and peace."

Year, State Incorporated:
1997, CO

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human rights (Urgent Action Fund) reports that it provides fast and flexible support primarily to women, trans, and non-binary activists so they can respond to risks and opportunities, protect and care for themselves and one another, and nurture and sustain frontline feminist movements. The organization seeks to provide rapid response grants to individual feminist activists, organizations, and movements in Canada, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the United States. Urgent Action Fund also works to amplify the voices of feminist activists in philanthropy and policy space, support gender justice and human rights movements globally through its global consortium of Urgent Action Sister Funds, and resource the care and safety infrastructures led by feminist and LGBT movements in the United States, West Balkans, and South Caucasus.

For the year ended December 31, 2024, Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights's program expenses were:

Program services $16,856,120
Total Program Expenses $16,856,120

Chief Executive
Kate Kroeger, Executive Director

Compensation*
$289,712

Chair of the Board
Val Napoleon, JD

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Attorney, Indigenous Law

Board Size
11

Paid Staff Size
21

*2024 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:
Grant proposals, Internet, Planned giving arrangements, Cause-related marketing (affinity credit cards, consumer product sales, etc.), Workplace Giving

Fundraising costs were 8% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $13,544,538, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Source of Funds
Contributions $13,544,538
Realized and unrealized gains on investments, net $345,568
Interest and dividends $118,449
Total Income $14,008,555

Programs: 88% Fundraising: 6% Administrative: 6%

Total Income $14,008,555
Total expenses: $19,168,597
  Program expenses $16,856,120
  Fundraising expenses $1,078,967
  Administrative expenses $1,233,510
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $-5,160,042
Beginning Net Assets $26,953,211
Other Changes In Net Assets $70,620
Ending Net Assets $21,863,789
Total Liabilities $9,291,244
Total Assets $31,155,033

Note: As noted in the above financial section, "other changes in net assets" refers to foreign currency translation.

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Report completed by:
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