How much does Born This Way Foundation give?

Born This Way Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $914,782, out of $3,314,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Born This Way Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Youth Development (20%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Born This Way Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Centerlink Inc ($321k), National Council for Behavioral Health ($295k), Donorschooseorg ($193k).

Does Born This Way Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Born This Way Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centerlink Inc, Tides Foundation, Panorama Global.

Where is Born This Way Foundation based?

Born This Way Foundation is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Born This Way Foundation

BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION empowers and inspires young people to build a kinder, braver world that supports their mental health.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2024: 4
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $915k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 22; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 17
Total assets, FY2024: $9.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Born This Way Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$915k	96%
FY2023	4	$303k	50%
FY2022	22	$1.0M	100%
FY2021	11	$114k	100%
FY2019	2	$93k	0%
FY2018	2	$175k	50%
FY2017	2	$208k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$835kYouth Development$569kHuman Services$464kCivil Rights$429kEducation$255kArts & Culture$111kHousing & Shelter$92kEmployment$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Centerlink Inc	$321,000	2	7%
National Council for Behavioral Health	$295,328	4	0%
Donorschooseorg	$192,910	2	0%
Aliento Education Fund	$75,000	1	4%
Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center Inc Lyric	$65,027	2	1%
Artist Mentorship Program	$60,000	1	9%
Halfthestory	$55,000	1	2%
Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth	$53,765	1	24%
Midwest Asian Health Association	$52,527	1	2%
Civic Suds Corporation	$51,980	1	28%

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All grantees of Born This Way Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Centerlink Inc	$321,000	2	7%
National Council for Behavioral Health	$295,328	4	0%
Donorschooseorg	$192,910	2	0%
Aliento Education Fund	$75,000	1	4%
Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center Inc Lyric	$65,027	2	1%
Artist Mentorship Program	$60,000	1	9%
Halfthestory	$55,000	1	2%
Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth	$53,765	1	24%
Midwest Asian Health Association	$52,527	1	2%
Civic Suds Corporation	$51,980	1	28%
Cafe Momentum	$50,000	1	1%
Right to Be Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Camp Laurel Foundation	$50,000	1	5%
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Connected Content Inc	$50,000	1	24%
Young Audiences Inc of Houston	$50,000	1	3%
Hopebound Mental Health	$50,000	1	12%
Our Minds Matter	$50,000	1	7%
Girls Embracing Mothers Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Adolescent Counseling Services	$50,000	1	2%
Projectq	$50,000	1	5%
Miry's List	$50,000	1	n/a
Mighty Writers	$50,000	1	1%
Hopelab Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
We Are Family	$50,000	1	7%
Breaktime United Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Bagly Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Cor Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Teens4teens Help	$40,000	1	19%
Letters to Strangers	$40,000	1	11%
Centre LGBTQA Support Network	$40,000	1	17%
The Montrose Center	$38,765	1	0%
The Alliance for LGBTQ Youth Inc	$35,000	1	6%
Joy as Resistance	$34,700	1	5%
Elyse Fox Club Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
The Ryan Bartel Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc	$25,842	1	0%
Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression	$25,000	1	2%
Black Girls Smile Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Restoring Lifeways	$25,000	1	1%
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service	$25,000	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$25,000	1	n/a
Stand With Trans	$20,000	1	4%
Youth Pride Inc	$20,000	1	2%
National Youth Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Libera Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Daughters Rising Inc	$18,240	1	n/a
Human Rights Alliance	$17,527	1	8%
The Unbreakable Organization Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Exploring the Arts Inc	$11,031	1	1%
Cooperative Downtown Ministries Inc	$10,388	1	0%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center	$10,388	1	0%
Ali Forney Center Inc	$10,388	1	0%
Wanda Alston Foundation Inc	$10,388	1	1%
Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc	$10,388	1	0%
The Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc	$10,339	1	0%
Trinity Community Connection Inc	$10,338	1	1%
Project 150	$10,000	2	0%
Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada	$10,000	1	0%
Choose Love Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Pay Away the Layaway Inc	$8,000	1	14%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Born This Way Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 55.

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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.

Centerlink IncFL23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Born This Way Foundation

How much does Born This Way Foundation give?: Born This Way Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $914,782, out of $3,314,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Born This Way Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Youth Development (20%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Born This Way Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Centerlink Inc ($321k), National Council for Behavioral Health ($295k), Donorschooseorg ($193k).
Does Born This Way Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Born This Way Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centerlink Inc, Tides Foundation, Panorama Global.
Where is Born This Way Foundation based?: Born This Way Foundation is based in NY.