How much did EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE grant in FY2024?

Civil Rights$297kHuman Services$267kCrime & Legal$92kCommunity Improvement$55kEducation$50kArts & Culture$33kHealth$25kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$7kOther$267k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

ensure

2021

policy towninclusivity budgetbudget advocacyadvocacy benefitinginclusivity passagepassage actlgbt

2022

convening traveltravel stipendnon partisanpartisan votervoter engagementinclusivity conveningstipend mobilize

2023

stipend executiveexecutive directordirector trainingexisting organizingorganizing advocacyconvening traveltravel stipend

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k12 grants · $165k
$50k–250k1 grant · $65k

$11,750

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

FREEDOM OKLAHOMA V$64,500
FREESTATE JUSTICE$26,500
ARKANSAS BLACK GAY MENS FORUM$21,500
LOUISIANA TRANS ADVOCATES$16,000
EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND$15,000
FORUM FOR EQUALITY FOUNDATION$12,500
PROMO FUND$11,750
TRANSOHIO INC$11,500
EQUALITY MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND$10,000
EQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION$10,000
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATION$10,000
FAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE$10,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$673k · 14 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$673k

$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%

+39%

Still filing today

86%

88%

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 & LegalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

PF
PROMO FUND
5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +136%
FO
FREEDOM OKLAHOMA
4× · 2020–2023 · $113k · revenue +6%
FJ
FREESTATE JUSTICE
4× · 2021–2024 · $92k · revenue +138%

Funded once

FF
FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -100%
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -21%
OI
OUTLINC INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +76%

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.

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

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

Equality Illinois

Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.

Philanthropy

Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

Equality Texas works to secure full equality for LGBTQ+ Texans.

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Equality Utah

The organization pursues educational, lobbying, and political activites in otder to further lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgtb)interests within utah.

Civil Rights

Georgia Equality Inc

To empower lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons through political and educational advocacy in urban, suburban and rural communities throughout georgia.

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Equality Forum Inc

Equality forum is a national and international lgbt civil rights organization with an educational focus

Recreation & Sports

Equality New Mexico

Equality New Mexico educated, organizes, and advocates for full human and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender New Mexicans and their allies.

Civil Rights

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc

Funders for lgbtq issues educates and organizes funders and supports power-building to create an abundance of resources for the justice and liberation of all queer communities.

Civil Rights

California Lgbtq Foundation

Through events it hosts and contributions it makes to like-minded charities the organization educates promotes and engages the public on issues of importance to the LGBTQ community in order to foster civic engagement and develop community…

Education

Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend

To engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of colorado.

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Equality Nc

Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom for All Americans Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is One Iowa. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/38

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,527

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/35

Grantees still filing

25/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$296,800Other$308,100Human Services$267,100Crime & Legal$91,900Community Improvement$54,800Education$50,100Arts & Culture$32,500

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

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.

Gill FoundationCO35.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gill Foundation · Tides Foundation · Trevor Project Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Horizons Foundation · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · New Venture Fund

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 organisation EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201627192 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Equality Federation Institute?

Find your warmest path to Equality Federation Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Equality Federation Institute?

More from the funding graph

EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Equality Federation Institute?

More from the funding graph