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Equality California Institute

To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$3.2MHealth$2.5MCrime & Legal$238kPublic Safety & Disaster$221kHuman Services$182kCommunity Improvement$80kYouth Development$51kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $1,034,543 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,204,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $170,327 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 $10k8 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $429k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA$300,000
TRANSGENDER HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER$182,958
POMONA PRIDE CENTER INC$99,284
TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES$94,348
DIVINE TRUTH UNITY FELLOWSHIP DBA RAINBOW PRIDE YOUTH ALLIANCE$52,509
COMMUNITY PARTNERSLATINO EQUALITY ALLIANCE$30,125
THE SOURCE LGBT CENTER$22,643
LGBTQ COLLABORATIVE$22,500
IMPERIAL VALLEY LGBT RESOURCE CENTER$20,301
UNIQUE WOMAN'S COALITION$18,500
Q YOUTH FOUNDATION$18,125
PARENTS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS INC$15,500
LGBTQ CENTER OC$12,000
CA TRANSCENDS GLOBAL$10,000
PRIDE PANTHERS COALITION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ON THE MOVE - LGBTQ CONNECTION: $7k → 9%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $4k → 12%FRESNO COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION: $15k → 19%GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $10k → 13%FRESNO COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION: $8k → 19%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $94k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $7k → 11%UNIQUE WOMAN'S COALITION: $19k → 14%REACH LA: $10k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $8k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INCAPAIT: $8k → 14%APAIT: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
LA
MS
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 37 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
52

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • EC
    EQUALITY CALIFORNIA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +70%
  • EC
    EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +2%
  • PV
    Pomona Valley Pride
    2× · 2023–2024 · $114k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • EO
    Equality Ohio Education Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $220k · revenue +4%
  • FE
    FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +19% · 33% of their budget
  • MC
    MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
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
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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4
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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5
National Trans Bar Association
Education
6
Solano Pride Center

Provide counseling and case management services as a prevention and early intervention strategy to reduce stigma and isolation of lgbto clients.

Civil Rights
7
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network Dba Gsa Network

To empower and train LGBTQ students and young people to organize and advocate for safe schools and healthy communities.

Civil Rights
8
Lgbt Bar Assn of Los Angeles Lgbtq Lawyers Assn of Los Angeles
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9
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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10
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
11
Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering

Working together as a community to empower Trans People of Color by meeting needs and increasing accessibility

Human Services
12
Merced Lgbtq Alliance

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Source Lgbt Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Women United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%16%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%67%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
4/99
the rest of the field
14%
26,000/186,879

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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 99 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
56/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $1,845,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIAEquality Ohio Education Fund — $220,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education FundEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $145,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC — $145,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC — $145,000 · Civil RightsPomona Valley Pride — $113,534 · Civil Rights+12 more — $419,319 · Civil Rights+12 moreEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $700,000 · Public BenefitEQUALITY CAL…UCLA FOUNDATION — $540,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDAT…FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 · EducationFAIRNESS EDU…TRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER — $182,958 · HealthTRANSGEND…AIDS Foundation of Chicago — $145,000 · HealthAIDS Foun…NASHVILLE CARES — $145,000 · HealthNASHVILLE…THE AMAAD INSTITUTE — $19,750 · Health+7 more — $49,000 · Health+7 moreGARDEN STATE EQUALITY FUND — $108,750 · OtherGARDEN STATE EQU…HEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherHEALTH ACCESS FO…TRANS-E-MOTION — $41,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $150,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR L…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $76,125 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNE…DIVINE TRUTH UNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — $62,509 · OtherDIVINE TRUTH UNI…+46 more — $447,450 · Other+46 moreMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $150,000 · Crime & LegalFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $150,000 · Crime & LegalOasis Legal Services — $27,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Immigrant Protection — $18,000 · Crime & LegalFresno Barrios Unidos — $15,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $9,500 · Crime & LegalTransFamily Support Services — $101,348 · Human ServicesFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission — $22,000 · Human ServicesSpecial Service for Groups Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesUnique Womans Coalition — $18,500 · Human ServicesRealistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA — $10,000 · Human ServicesGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $10,000 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE — $7,250 · Human Services+1 more — $4,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$3,032,853Public Benefit$700,000Education$690,000Health$541,708Other$946,334Crime & Legal$389,500Human Services$193,098

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $1,845,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $700,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $540,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $220,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRANSGENDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER — $182,958 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $145,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC — $145,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $145,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC — $145,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNASHVILLE CARES — $145,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPomona Valley Pride — $113,534 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTransFamily Support Services — $101,348 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $76,125 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetImperial Valley LGBT Resource Center Inc — $74,551 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetDIVINE TRUTH UNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — $62,509 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLGBTQ COLLABORATIVE — $58,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE — $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOURCE LGBT CENTER INC — $52,143 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetQueer Humboldt — $28,125 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOMOS FAMILIA VALLE — $27,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetOasis Legal Services — $27,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC — $23,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROTHERS OF THE DESERT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMAAD INSTITUTE — $19,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnique Womans Coalition — $18,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D — $18,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center — $18,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Immigrant Protection — $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTransCanWork Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC — $17,125 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFresno Barrios Unidos — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANDID — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGENDER HEALTH CENTER — $14,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY — $14,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPOSITIVE IMAGES — $13,250 over 2y, 4.7% of budget
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.

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.

The California Endowm…The California Wellne…Sierra Health Foundat…Health Access Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Horizons FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyLiberty Hill Foundati…Public Health Institu…AIDS UnitedTides FoundationThe Elizabeth Taylor …
The California EndowmentCA54.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Health Access Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Horizons Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Liberty Hill Foundation · Public Health Institute · AIDS United · Tides Foundation · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation

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 Equality California Institute 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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