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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.

$626k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$59k
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 FY2021–2024.

Civil Rights$873kPublic Benefit$88kCrime & Legal$59k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $597,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $626,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,500 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$20,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREESTATE JUSTICE$58,500
GEORGIA EQUALITY$45,000
FAIR WISCONSIN INC$35,000
EQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA$35,000
FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA DBA FAIRNESS PA$35,000
TO PROTECT LGBTQ COLORADANS$30,000
EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK$27,500
EQUALITY TEXAS VENDOR$25,000
SILVER STATE EQUALITY$25,000
EQUALITY OHIO VENDOR$22,500
FREEDOM OKLAHOMA ACTION FUND$22,500
ARKANSAS BLACK GAY MEN'S FORUM$20,000
FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA$20,000
ONE IOWA ACTION$20,000
PROMO$20,000
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 (FY21–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TO PROTECT LGBTQ COLORADANS: $30k → 12%TRANSFORMATION PROJECT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $13k → 9%PROMO: $15k → 21%PROMO: $9k → 21%PROMO: $8k → 21%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

MN
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AZ
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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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$646k · 15 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$646k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • EM
    EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $87k · revenue ×47 · 35% of their budget
  • FW
    FAIR WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +276% · 50% of their budget
  • EO
    Equality Ohio
    2× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • EO
    EQUALITY OHIO ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • TE
    TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +45% · 29% of their budget
  • OI
    OUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +6%

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
EqualityMaine

EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…

Civil Rights
2
National Trans Bar Association
Education
3
Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc

Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Civil Rights
4
Equality Michigan

To achieve full equality and respect for all michigan residents, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Civil Rights
5
Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
6
EqualityMaine Foundation

EqualityMaine Foundation works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through community building, education, engagement, and…

Human Services
7
Equal Rights for All Petition

Amends Constitution: Specifies that prohibited discrimination includes discrimination concerning gender identity/pregnancy, related health decisions, sexual orientation

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8
Outfront Minnesota Community Services

Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…

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9
Equality Hi

Equality HI's Mission envisions a thriving and empowering culture that proactively engages in creating an inclusive and diverse queer community through aloha, leadership, resources, services and education.

Human Services
10
Equality Foundation of Ga Inc

Conducting research and educating the public on gay, lesbian/ bisexual and transgender social, economic, political and legislative issues.

Civil Rights
11
Equality Pennsylvania

To seek equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) pennsylvanians.

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12
Equality Legal Action Fund

We are a group of volunteer attorneys and advocates who are dedicated to fighting extremism and disinformation against educators, public officials, election officials, and members of the lgbtq community. no nebraskan deserves to be the…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah and the most unlike its peers is Centro Por La Justicia. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,530

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

31 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. 31 of the 35 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
13/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK — $86,500 · Civil RightsEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORKFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC — $80,000 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INCEQUALITY NC — $52,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NCFreedom Oklahoma Action Fund — $37,500 · Civil RightsFreedom Oklahoma Action FundEquality Ohio — $37,500 · Civil RightsEquality OhioEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC — $36,450 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INCONE IOWA ACTION — $29,000 · Civil RightsONE IOWA ACTIONOUTFRONT MINNESOTA — $27,500 · Civil RightsOUTFRONT MINNESOTAEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $25,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIA+4 more — $47,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreEQUALITY OHIO ACTION FUND — $60,000 · OtherEQUALITY OHIO ACTION FUNDGEORGIA EQUALITY INC — $54,000 · OtherGEORGIA EQUALITY INCEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas — $52,000 · OtherEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality TexasFAIR WISCONSIN INC — $44,000 · OtherFAIR WISCONSIN INCEQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES INC — $30,000 · OtherEQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES INCFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC — $24,000 · OtherFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INCPRIVACY RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT — $20,000 · OtherPRIVACY RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECTARKANSAS BLACK GAY MENS FORUM — $20,000 · OtherARKANSAS BLACK GAY MENS FORUMAFFA ACTION — $17,500 · OtherEQUALITY SOUTH DAKOTA — $12,500 · Other+4 more — $32,500 · Other+4 morePROMO FUND — $31,750 · Human ServicesONE COLORADO — $30,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATION PROJECT INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $58,500 · Crime & LegalUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING — $24,000 · Recreation & SportsLouisiana Trans Advocates Foundation — $12,500 · HealthBLAQOUT — $10,000 · HealthOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA — $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Civil Rights$458,450Other$366,500Human Services$74,250Crime & Legal$58,500Recreation & Sports$24,000Health$22,500Arts & Culture$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK — $86,500 over 4y, 35% of budgetFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC — $80,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $58,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGEORGIA EQUALITY INC — $54,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetEQUALITY NC — $52,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas — $52,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetFAIR WISCONSIN INC — $44,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetEquality Ohio — $37,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC — $36,450 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPROMO FUND — $31,750 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetONE COLORADO — $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA — $27,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC — $24,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING — $24,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPRIVACY RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAFFA ACTION — $17,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA — $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEquality New Mexico — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLouisiana Trans Advocates Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLAQOUT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE ACTION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH — $9,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEquality Arizona — $9,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTRANSFORMATION PROJECT ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $8,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Equality Federation I…Human Rights Campaign…All Hands on Deck Net…American Unity Fund I…America VotesAllies in ArtsNorth FundTides FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Federation 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 · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 35 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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