How much does Equality Federation Institute give?

Equality Federation Institute reported 17 itemized grants totaling $496,000, out of $509,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Equality Federation Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (58%), Human Services (19%), Health (10%).

Who are Equality Federation Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Freestate Justice Inc ($179k), Promo Fund ($145k), Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd ($138k).

Does Equality Federation Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Equality Federation Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equality Federation, Tides Foundation, Gill Foundation.

Where is Equality Federation Institute based?

Equality Federation Institute is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Equality Federation Institute

EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE 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.

$510k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 54%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $496k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $23,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $87,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 18; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 16
Total assets, FY2025: $4.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Equality Federation Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHealthCommunity 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	17	$496k	24%
FY2024	13	$229k	54%
FY2023	13	$275k	23%
FY2022	18	$263k	72%
FY2021	15	$305k	80%
FY2020	3	$30k	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, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$635kHuman Services$204kHealth$115kCrime & Legal$92kCommunity Improvement$55k

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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Freestate Justice Inc	$178,900	5	8%
Promo Fund	$145,250	6	8%
Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd	$137,600	5	8%
Freedom for All Americans Education Fund	$100,000	1	2%
Garden State Equality Educational Fund	$80,100	3	2%
Arkansas Black Gay Mens Forum	$74,300	4	n/a
Equality Foundation of Ga Inc	$68,500	2	4%
Equality Ohio Education Fund	$66,300	3	1%
Freedom Oklahoma Action Fund	$64,500	1	n/a
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation	$58,800	3	15%

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All grantees of Equality Federation Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Freestate Justice Inc	$178,900	5	8%
Promo Fund	$145,250	6	8%
Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd	$137,600	5	8%
Freedom for All Americans Education Fund	$100,000	1	2%
Garden State Equality Educational Fund	$80,100	3	2%
Arkansas Black Gay Mens Forum	$74,300	4	n/a
Equality Foundation of Ga Inc	$68,500	2	4%
Equality Ohio Education Fund	$66,300	3	1%
Freedom Oklahoma Action Fund	$64,500	1	n/a
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation	$58,800	3	15%
Centro Por la Justicia	$54,800	2	2%
National Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights	$50,000	1	1%
The Level Up Project	$49,000	1	20%
Fair Wisconsin Education Fund Inc	$41,500	4	4%
Outlinc Inc Outnebraska	$32,500	1	7%
Blaqout	$30,000	1	n/a
Equality Nc Foundation	$29,000	2	0%
Outfront Minnesota Community Services	$28,000	2	0%
One Colorado Education Fund	$27,500	3	1%
Equality Michigan	$26,000	2	0%
Transgender Education Network of Texas	$24,000	2	n/a
One Iowa	$19,500	2	2%
Equality Virginia Inc	$18,000	2	1%
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated	$16,000	1	2%
Catalyst Montana	$14,000	1	1%
EqualityMaine Foundation	$12,750	1	2%
Massequality Education Fundorg Inc	$12,500	2	5%
Forum for Equality Louisiana	$12,500	1	n/a
Basic Rights Education Fund	$12,500	2	1%
Transohio	$11,500	1	n/a
Equality Michigan Action Network	$10,000	1	1%
Equality Nc	$10,000	1	3%
Affa Action	$10,000	1	21%
Tennessee Equality Project	$10,000	1	13%
United Gays & Lesbians of Wyoming	$9,500	1	3%
Equality Illinois Institute	$8,500	1	1%
The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico	$8,500	1	0%
Forum for Equality Foundation	$8,000	1	9%
Bagly Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Equality California Institute	$6,500	1	0%
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Equality Arizona Foundation	$6,500	1	2%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Equality Federation Institute supplied at peak.

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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 36.

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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 FederationOR32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equality Federation · Tides Foundation · Gill Foundation · Trevor Project Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Human Rights Campaign 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 Institute

How much does Equality Federation Institute give?: Equality Federation Institute reported 17 itemized grants totaling $496,000, out of $509,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Equality Federation Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (58%), Human Services (19%), Health (10%).
Who are Equality Federation Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Freestate Justice Inc ($179k), Promo Fund ($145k), Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd ($138k).
Does Equality Federation Institute fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Equality Federation Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equality Federation, Tides Foundation, Gill Foundation.
Where is Equality Federation Institute based?: Equality Federation Institute is based in OR.