How much does Equality Federation give?

Equality Federation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $112,500, out of $172,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Equality Federation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (86%), Public Benefit (9%), Crime & Legal (6%).

Who are Equality Federation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Equality Michigan Action Network ($98k), Fairness West Virginia Inc ($90k), Equality Nc ($77k).

Does Equality Federation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Equality Federation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equality Federation Institute, Human Rights Campaign Inc, All Hands on Deck Network Inc.

Where is Equality Federation based?

Equality Federation is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Equality Federation

EQUALITY FEDERATION is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

$172k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 46%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $113k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $11,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 26; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Equality Federation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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
FY2025still arriving	8	$113k	25%
FY2024	26	$598k	46%
FY2023	5	$42k	20%
FY2022	6	$168k	67%
FY2021	18	$211k	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, FY2021 to 2024.

Civil Rights$873kPublic Benefit$88kCrime & Legal$59k

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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Equality Michigan Action Network	$97,500	5	35%
Fairness West Virginia Inc	$90,000	4	23%
Equality Nc	$77,000	4	11%
Equality Ohio Action Fund	$60,000	1	n/a
Equality Virginia Advocates Inc	$60,000	3	87%
Freestate Justice Inc	$58,500	1	5%
Georgia Equality Inc	$54,000	2	10%
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas	$52,000	2	5%
Fair Wisconsin Inc	$44,000	2	50%
Equality Ohio	$37,500	2	20%

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All grantees of Equality Federation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Equality Michigan Action Network	$97,500	5	35%
Fairness West Virginia Inc	$90,000	4	23%
Equality Nc	$77,000	4	11%
Equality Ohio Action Fund	$60,000	1	n/a
Equality Virginia Advocates Inc	$60,000	3	87%
Freestate Justice Inc	$58,500	1	5%
Georgia Equality Inc	$54,000	2	10%
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas	$52,000	2	5%
Fair Wisconsin Inc	$44,000	2	50%
Equality Ohio	$37,500	2	20%
Freedom Oklahoma Action Fund	$37,500	2	n/a
Equality Florida Action Inc	$36,450	2	2%
Outfront Minnesota	$35,000	3	13%
Equality California	$34,000	2	1%
Promo Fund	$31,750	3	4%
One Colorado	$30,000	1	24%
One Iowa Action	$29,000	2	n/a
United Gays & Lesbians of Wyoming	$24,000	2	4%
Fairness Campaign Inc	$24,000	2	5%
Arkansas Black Gay Mens Forum	$20,000	1	n/a
Privacy Rights Education Project	$20,000	1	9%
Affa Action	$17,500	1	36%
Outlinc Inc Outnebraska	$15,000	1	4%
Equality New Mexico	$15,000	1	12%
Tennessee Equality Project	$15,000	1	29%
The Southern Empowerment Collective	$12,500	1	n/a
Transformation Project Inc	$12,500	1	n/a
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation	$12,500	1	12%
Equality South Dakota	$12,500	1	n/a
Blaqout	$10,000	1	1%
Gender Justice Action	$10,000	1	3%
Equality Utah	$9,000	1	4%
Equality Arizona	$9,000	1	3%
Transformation Project Advocacy Network Inc	$8,000	1	10%
Centro Por la Justicia	$7,500	1	1%
Garden State Equality Action Fund Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Forum for Equality Louisiana	$6,000	1	n/a

Equality Federation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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 28.

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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.

Equality Federation InstituteOR32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equality Federation Institute · Human Rights Campaign Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · American Unity Fund Inc · America Votes · Allies in Arts · North Fund · Tides Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Equality Federation

How much does Equality Federation give?: Equality Federation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $112,500, out of $172,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Equality Federation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (86%), Public Benefit (9%), Crime & Legal (6%).
Who are Equality Federation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Equality Michigan Action Network ($98k), Fairness West Virginia Inc ($90k), Equality Nc ($77k).
Does Equality Federation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Equality Federation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equality Federation Institute, Human Rights Campaign Inc, All Hands on Deck Network Inc.
Where is Equality Federation based?: Equality Federation is based in OR.