2025-08-14T19:01:51-07:00 2024-12-31 472110891 Taylor Tax and Accounting 3830 Pansy St Seal Beach CA 90740 990 2024-01-01 465687557 EQUAL RIGHTS INSTITUTE EQUA 7045849525 PO BOX 6081 CONCORD NC 28027 JOSH BRAHM President 2025-08-14 true true Nicholas Taylor CPA P00502266 9496326855 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z JOSH BRAHM PO BOX 6081 CONCORD NC 28027 386059 false X HTTPS://EQUALRIGHTSINSTITUTE.COM X 2014 NC To train pro-life advocates to think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively, primarily through speaking, writing, podcasts, videos on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, online courses, campus outreach, and an affiliate group program. 6 5 6 0 249812 325794 59040 27596 3734 6159 488 1363 313074 360912 0 0 260907 307108 0 25957 92760 102132 353667 409240 -40593 -48328 198346 157619 40109 47710 158237 109909 Equal Rights Institute trains pro-life advocates to think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively.Think Clearly:The organization wants pro-life advocates to dialogue well with pro-choice people, and clear thinking goes hand-in-hand with good dialogue. Even when two people are being polite, their conversation will get stuck if they cant find clarity on where they disagree and why. The organization helps pro-life advocates not only to reason well through difficult arguments but also to ask the right kinds of questions so they become better at understanding different views.Reason Honestly:Part of reasoning well is being willing to evaluate arguments honestly. It is very easy to go into an argument with a predetermined conclusion, but doing this opens people up to self-deception. The organization encourages pro-life advocates to be open-minded, even about abortion. While this may seem to exhibit a lack of confidence that abortion is wrong, its actually quite the opposite: one shou false false 144686 333316 A summary of the organization's primary programs (excluding speaking engagements or its online courses) are separated into the following categories:Short-form videos: After launching both Instagram Reels and TikTok Videos in January 2022, the organization has continued to utilize short-form video content to engage with pro-choice arguments and model persuasive dialogue to pro-life advocates. These Instagram Reels have been the standout content story of the last several years for the organization. While a steady increase in video views has been noted, Instagram analytics do not provide yearly view totals, so they have not previously reported these totals. However, this year they decided that manually calculating the view totals for each video since the channels inception was worth the headache, and they were thrilled to see the results: In 2022, the organizations Instagram channel received 621,314 views. In 2023, the organizations Instagram channel received 4,941,851 views. In 2024, the organizations Instagram channel received 8,046,611 views. These dramatic increases year-over-year on Instagram have also been accompanied by steady growth of their TikTok channel, which amassed 2,710,200 views in 2024. YouTube videos: In 2024, the organization's YouTube channel has garnered 62,151video views, totaling 1,850 hours of pro-life content watched. This was 61% less than the previous year, also because we weren't producing nearly as much video content while completing Equipped for Life Academy. The YouTube channel has already bounced back, receiving 76,792 views in the first half of 2025 alone.Podcasts: We took a hiatus from producing the podcast in 2024 in order to divert resources to completing Equipped for Life Academy. Affiliate Groups: The organization's affiliate group club program continues to expand. By the end of 2024, the program included 45 clubs across 17 states and three countries, with a combined active membership of 1,868 individuals. The organization was particularly excited about the addition of a third country, as three groups from India joined the program in 2024. 97996 4146 Online Courses:Equipped for Life Academy: Completing the production of the organization's new religious high-school curriculum was the primary mission. This curriculumconsisting of lesson plans, activities, slides, videos, assignments, assessments, and grading rubricswas crafted to meet state education standards and denominational religious requirements. Because of that, Equipped for Life Academy is suitable for use by Christian and Catholic high schools, religious education programs, and homeschool families. The curriculum was finally published in December 2024, completing a three-year production. Once completed, the organization immediately went to work promoting the curriculum to dioceses, schools, homeschool groups, and individuals with contacts in religious education. The organization also received a dozen glowing endorsements in the months that followed. This curriculum will challenge and equip students on abortion in a way that has not previously been possible to do at scale in classrooms across the country, and it is designed to foster productive conversation between pro-life and pro-choice students both in and out of the classroom.Other online courses: The organization publishes a lot of its core content in online courses, a format that is helpful for systematically guiding people through a lot of information no matter where they are in the world. Online courses are scalable, meaning there is no artificial limit to how many people can be helped by them in the way that there are limits to how many people can attend a live speaking event by an ERI speaker. The organization published the Equipped for Life Course on practical dialogue tips and pro-life apologetics in 2016 and the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass in 2019. The first course includes 38 lessons (making up about five hours of video content), along with group activities for students to digest the material by answering questions or practicing together. The second course includes 16 lessons (making up about seven hours of content), a workbook with organized notes, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, FAQs, and 40 practical tips. As of December 2024, 4,965 individuals were enrolled in at least one of the organization's online courses. 37144 23450 Speaking engagements: The organization engages in platform speaking events across the country to spread practical dialogue tips, rigorous philosophy, and relational apologetics. These include speaking events at universities, conferences, churches, pregnancy center banquets, and full-day seminars.Since ERI began in 2014, it has spoken to 40,627 people at 345 speeches and 39 seminars in four countries, 29 states, and the District of Columbia as of December 2024. 279826 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 2 0 false 6 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 5 false false false false false false false true true false true true true true true true true true false false false CA X Barbara Nixon 7045849525 PO Box 6081 Concord NC 28027 JOSH BRAHM Executive Dir. 55.00 0.00 X X 102781 0 0 BRIEN DOWNIE Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ARDEE COOLIDGE Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 TIM HULL President 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 RO LAWSIN Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 GLEN HIGGINS Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 102781 1 false false false 0 325794 25147 325794 EQUIPPED COURSES SALES 4146 4146 SPEAKING FEES 23450 23450 27596 5348 5348 0 0 0 25958 25147 811 811 811 0 0 0 Other Revenue 1363 1363 1363 360912 28959 6159 0 0 0 0 102781 82225 10278 10278 0 181917 115770 52583 13564 0 0 22410 15617 4907 1886 0 650 650 12626 12626 0 0 0 1252 1252 3375 2025 1350 3415 3415 24183 21775 2408 0 13203 13203 14236 14236 0 0 0 0 3396 3396 9839 9839 SMALL EQUIPMENT 3733 3733 MEALS FOR EVENTS 3162 3162 TELEPHONE 2288 1830 229 229 BANK AND CREDIT CARD CHARGES 1998 1998 4776 1602 3174 409240 279826 103457 25957 66599 57960 119249 85993 0 0 0 0 0 0 2920 3337 32547 22218 9578 10329 0 0 0 0 0 198346 157619 40109 47710 40109 47710 X 158237 109909 158237 109909 198346 157619 -48328 X false false false X 329297 404715 324255 249812 325794 1633873 19390 33962 76272 59040 27596 216260 55832 55832 0 0 404519 438677 400527 308852 353390 1905965 113805 179864 138472 70011 94747 596899 0 113805 179864 138472 70011 94747 596899 1309066 3734 6159 9893 0 3734 6159 9893 0 2500 488 1363 4351 404519 441177 400527 313074 360912 1920209 0.68170 0.69550 0.00520 0.00190 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 32547 22218 10329 10329 X 1 25147 FMV false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The organization hires an outside accountant to prepare a draft of the Form 990 for discussion and review by the treasurer, the president and the executive administrator.Upon this review, the return is reviewed by the board, and the board makes a motion to accept the return as prepared, or to update the return for additional changes before the return is finalized and filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organization annually requires its board of directors to complete and sign a survey regarding potential conflicts of interest, if any, with their affiliation to the organization and its exempt purpose and operations.With respect to its staff, the organization discusses personal updates that may affect the organization or present a conflict of interest (such as additional jobs worked outside of the Organization) both in routine weekly meetings and in ad hoc communication. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Organization maintains financial statements and policy documents in keeping with local laws and industry best-practice guidelines. The Organization will respond to requests for documents, policies, and procedures within 10 business days. Provided documents will be made available to view in a digital format for a period of five business days.