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Allies in Arts

Our mission is to support artists who are women, bipoc, and lgbtqqia2s - all of whom are underrepresented individuals in creative industries.artists from our communities face barriers as a direct result of race, gender, sex, and sexual orientation.

$191k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,944
Median grant
12
States reached
$590k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY FLORIDA$11,944
OUR SPOT KC$11,944
PRIDE LINK$11,944
JASMYN$11,944
TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERED$11,944
BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION$11,944
ZEBRA COALITION$11,944
HOUSE OF TULIP$11,944
TRANSSOCIAL INC$11,944
TRANSFORMATION PROJECT ADVOCACY NETWORK$11,944
GENDERNEXUS$11,944
ONE IOWA$11,944
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT$11,944
SOUTHERN ARIZONA GENDER ALLIANCE$11,944
THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY$11,944
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRANSSOCIAL INC: $12k → 15%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERED: $12k → 16%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $12k → 33%OUR SPOT KC: $12k → 16%GENDERNEXUS: $12k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

SD
IA
IN
AZ
KS
AR
TN
SC
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Trans Bar Association
Education
2
Queer Works

Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Health
3
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
4
African American Office of Gay Concerns

To comprehensively serve as a resource for the well-being of gay men of color, inclusive but not limited to gay, bisexual & transgender & questioning communities through outreach, education & care.

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5
Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc

Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Civil Rights
6
Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
7
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Transgender Pride-T

To empower every lgbtq+ person to live as their true self. we envision a future where all lgbtq+ people are valued and celebrated for who they are

Civil Rights
9
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
10
Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…

Civil Rights
11
Sexual Identity Network Ministries

Sexual identity ministry

Religion
12
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is GenderNexus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR SPOT KC: $11,944 · Human ServicesOUR SPOT KCMAYFAIRE MEDICAL INC: $11,944 · Human ServicesMAYFAIRE MEDICAL INCGenderNexus Inc: $11,944 · Human ServicesGenderNexus IncTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $11,944 · Human ServicesTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INCTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $11,944 · Human ServicesTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable…TRANSFORMATION PROJECT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $11,944 · Civil RightsTRANSFORMATION PROJECT ADVOCACY NET…EQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC: $11,944 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INCJACKSONVILLE AREA SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $11,944 · Civil RightsJACKSONVILLE AREA SEXUAL MINORITY Y…ONE IOWA ACTION: $11,944 · Civil RightsONE IOWA ACTIONTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: $11,944 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECTHOUSE OF TULIP: $11,944 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF TULIPLucies Place Inc: $11,944 · Housing & ShelterLucies Place I…Southern Arizona Gender Alliance Inc: $11,944 · OtherSouthern Arizo…PRIDE LINK: $11,944 · OtherPRIDE LINKNATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION: $11,944 · PhilanthropyZEBRA YOUTH INC: $11,944 · Youth Development
Human Services$59,720Civil Rights$59,720Housing & Shelter$23,888Other$23,888Philanthropy$11,944Youth Development$11,944

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION: $11,944 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOUR SPOT KC: $11,944 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSE OF TULIP: $11,944 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC: $11,944 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMAYFAIRE MEDICAL INC: $11,944 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGenderNexus Inc: $11,944 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSouthern Arizona Gender Alliance Inc: $11,944 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJACKSONVILLE AREA SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $11,944 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLucies Place Inc: $11,944 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetZEBRA YOUTH INC: $11,944 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRIDE LINK: $11,944 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: $11,944 over 1y, 24% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pledgeling FoundationTides FoundationProteus Fund IncBorealis PhilanthropyThe Astraea Foundatio…Centerlink IncGroundswell FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Equality FederationAIDS UnitedJpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for Good
Pledgeling FoundationCA29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pledgeling Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · The Astraea Foundation Inc · Centerlink Inc · Groundswell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Equality Federation · AIDS United · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allies in Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allies in Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Allies in Arts?

Find your warmest path to Allies in Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $247k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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