Partners & Funders

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We depend on a variety of sources for organizational funding (including cy pres class action settlement awards, foundation grants and individual donations) and are extremely grateful to everyone who supports our work.

We thank all those who have graciously supported our work, including

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Roger L. Kohn and Kay M. Gilbert Fund
DuckDuckGo
Digital Trust Foundation
Consumer Federation of America
California Consumer Protection Foundation
Michelson 20MM Foundation

We also thank those who help make our work possible by suggesting us as cy pres recipients in privacy-related settlements.

If you would like to learn more about our sources of funding, please see our most recent Form 990 below, send us a message, or call us at (619) 298-3396.

Check out our 2023 Form 990 for more information

Cy Pres Awards

Cy pres awards play a critical role in our ability to help people understand their privacy rights and advocate for strong consumer protections. 

A cy pres award is a distribution of funds from a class action settlement to an organization that comes as near as possible to the interests of the class. Often these are funds remaining after settlement funds have been distributed to class members.

We use funding from cy pres awards to educate people about their privacy rights and choices, research emerging consumer privacy issues, create and improve research tools like our Data Breach Chronology and our Data Broker Database, and weigh in on policy proceedings with a consumer rights perspective.

At Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, we have been fortunate to be court-approved recipients of a number of cy pres awards in consumer privacy cases.  If you are researching cy pres recipients for a case, and believe Privacy Rights Clearinghouse may be an appropriate recipient, please feel free to reach out to us at 619-298-3396 or support@privacyrights.org.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been named a cy pres recipient in many privacy-related cases, including:

  • In re Plaid, Inc. Privacy Litigation
  • Larson v. Harman-Management Corp.
  • Bailey v. Six Flags
  • In re Vizio, Inc. Consumer Privacy Litigation
  • Hashw v. Department Stores National Bank and FDS Bank
  • Virgine v. CR England
  • Cohen v. Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency et. al.
  • Sims v. Simply Fashion
  • Seegert v. PF Changs
  • Johnson v. American Finance & Associates Corp and Does 1-50
  • In re: Collecto Inc. TCPA Litigation
  • Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. R.M. Galicia Inc. dba Progressive Management Systems
  • Connolly v. Umpqua Bank
  • Robinson v. Paramount Equity Mortgage
  • Mount v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
  • People of Calif. v. Wells Fargo Bank
  • Stone v. Howard Johnson International Inc.
  • Doe v. Twitter
  • Nicolucci v. Sephora USA, Inc.
  • In. re: Netflix Privacy Litigation
  • Holmes v. NCO Financial Systems, Inc.
  • Syran v. LexisNexis Group
  • Kaye et. al. v. Aesthera Corp
  • Wang v. Asset Acceptance, et. al.
  • Main et. al. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.