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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $1,034,543, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,204,870 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $170,327 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
SOMOS FAMILIA VALLE$10,000
MEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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

IL
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
LA
MS
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

89%
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
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.

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%
  • FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -10%
  • MC
    MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -1%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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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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
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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4
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
5
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
6
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
7
National Trans Bar Association
Education
8
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
9
Lgbt Bar Assn of Los Angeles Lgbtq Lawyers Assn of Los Angeles
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10
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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11
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
12
Diversity Collective Ventura County

Our mission is to provide advocacy, visibility, safety, and wellness for the lgbtq+ community. we achieve this through our community resource center, programs, and community building events.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Source Lgbt Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $1,845,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIAEquality Ohio Education Fund: $220,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education FundEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $145,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $145,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE 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 · HealthTRANSGENDE…NASHVILLE CARES: $145,000 · HealthNASHVILLE …AIDS Foundation of Chicago: $145,000 · HealthAIDS Found…TRANS-E-MOTION: $41,500 · HealthTRANS-E-MO…THE AMAAD INSTITUTE: $19,750 · Health+7 more: $49,000 · Health+7 moreGARDEN STATE EQUALITY FUND: $108,750 · OtherGARDEN STATE EQ…HEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherHEALTH ACCESS F…FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $150,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR …COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $76,125 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTN…DIVINE TRUTH UNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $62,509 · OtherDIVINE TRUTH UN…+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$583,208Other$904,834Crime & Legal$389,500Human Services$193,098

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $150,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFREESTATE JUSTICE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $145,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNASHVILLE CARES: $145,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $145,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 budgetTRANS-E-MOTION: $41,500 over 4y, 8.5% 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 budgetBROTHERS OF THE DESERT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMAAD INSTITUTE: $19,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center: $18,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $18,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnique Womans Coalition: $18,500 over 1y, 9.9% 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 budgetCANDID: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFresno Barrios Unidos: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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.

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

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 Equality California Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Equality California Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.

    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 99 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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