California · Public charity
Equality California Institute
To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Equality California Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $605k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.1M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.6M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $696k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $345k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $272k | 95% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $260k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equality California | $1,845,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Equality California Institute | $700,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund | $220,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Transgender Health and Wellness Center | $182,958 | 1 | 4% |
| Foundation for Louisiana | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Freestate Justice Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Fairness Education Fund | $150,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Equality Virginia Inc | $145,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Nashville Cares | $145,000 | 1 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Equality California Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Equality California Institute
- How much does Equality California Institute give?
- Equality California Institute reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,034,543, out of $1,204,870 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Equality California Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (49%), Health (39%), Crime & Legal (4%).
- Who are Equality California Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Equality California ($1.8M), Equality California Institute ($700k), Equality Ohio Education Fund ($220k).
- Does Equality California Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Equality California Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management.
- Where is Equality California Institute based?
- Equality California Institute is based in CA.
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