HRC's Membership Claims

The Human Rights campaign is going to get back to me on Monday on the real numbers for their membership. Last week, they told me they had 650,000 members and supporters nationwide. But several readers have already done some simple math based on the publicly disclosed figures in the IRS 990 forms. The total of contributions last year amounted to roughly $7.3 million. If everyone paid the minimal membership due of $35, that means a maximum of around 210,000 members. But the filing also says that they received $2.25 million in large donations. So the odds are that the actual membership total for the last twelve months is somewhere in the region of, at the very most, 150,000. So is it 650,000 or 150,000? Or less? Again, the simple question is: how many people paid the minimum $35 membership fee or more to be part of HRC in the last twelve months? We'll soon find out.