· Public charity
Centerlink Inc
Centerlink strengthens, supports, and connects lgbtq community centers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $968,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,272,108 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $303,408 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $579k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN MONTANA GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $54,200 |
| MONTGOMERY PRIDE UNITED | $54,000 |
| PRISM UNITED | $51,700 |
| THE LGBTQ CENTER OF THE CAPE FEAR COAST | $51,700 |
| RAINBOW ROSE CENTER | $51,700 |
| LITITZ CHOOSES LOVE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH | $41,700 |
| CHARLOTTE TRANSGENDER HEALTHCARE GROUP | $41,700 |
| OMAHA FORUS INC | $41,700 |
| CENTAL VALLEY GENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $41,700 |
| BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER | $41,700 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $40,100 |
| YOUTH OUTLOOK | $19,700 |
| LGBTQ CENTER OC | $19,700 |
| TRANSNEWYORK INC | $16,700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Centerlink Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $534k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- COCenter on Halsted6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +62%
- LDLGBT Detroit7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +26%
- PCPride Center San Antonio4× · 2020–2023 · $149k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- SLSHENANDOAH LGBTQ CENTERone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue 0%
- NCNorth County LGBTQ Resource Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +759%
- SASTONEWALL ALLIANCE OF CHICOone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people
As a safe, supportive environment, the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center provides services, professional resources, and programs that unite the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, and queer community across lines of age, race, gender,…
The New Orleans Pride Center is a welcome, inclusive hub for local and regional LGBTQ2IA and allied individuals and communities where all feel safe to celebrate their authentic selves and thrive through connection. We operate a physical…
The Mission of Centre LGBT+ is to bring the community together through LGBT+ education, advocacy, and activities in the Centre Region
Through education advocacy and celebration The Rainbow Center expands resources and safe space for lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer and allied community.
Provide counseling and case management services as a prevention and early intervention strategy to reduce stigma and isolation of lgbto clients.
To provide support and Visibility to the LGBTQ+ community.
The Alliance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth provides mental health and care coordination services, leadership development, and policy advocacy that centers the lives and experiences of LGBTQ youth in…
The mission of the Merced LGBTQ+ Alliance is to advocate for the interests of the LGBTQ+ community within Merced County. We celebrate our diversity and advocate for justice and opportunities for members of our vulnerable community. We…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Castle Rock Pride. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 146 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds LGBT Detroit ↗
- Who funds Pride Center San Antonio ↗
- Who funds Time Out Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRIDE CENTER WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE YOUTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY PRIDE UNITED ↗
- Who funds Prism United ↗
- Who funds BORDERLAND RAINBOW CENTER ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY ↗
- Who funds LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds OUT IN THE OPEN INC ↗
- Who funds GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sacramento LGBT Community Center ↗
- Who funds GenderNexus Inc ↗
- Who funds TransNewYork ↗
- Who funds Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Stand With Trans ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ CENTER OF THE CAPE FEAR COAST ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON GAY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER OF GREATER READING ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MONTANA GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRIDELINES YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH LGBTQ CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW ROSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds IN OUR OWN VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds North County LGBTQ Resource Center ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL ALLIANCE OF CHICO ↗
- Who funds OUR SPOT KC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH (NAGLY) ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: David Bohnett Foundation · Leonard Litz Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Horizons Foundation · The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT · Born This Way Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · AIDS United · Gamma Mu Foundation Inc · Equality California Institute · Borealis Philanthropy
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Centerlink Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Pride Center of Maryland Inc — 49% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc — 16% of income from government
- Edge New Jersey Inc — 7% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Metropolitan Charities Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.