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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.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$65k
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 FY2020–2024.

Civil Rights$635kHuman Services$204kHealth$115kCrime & Legal$92kCommunity Improvement$55k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $229,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,950 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

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$11,750
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATION$10,000
FAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC$10,000
EQUALITY MICHIGAN EDUCATION FUND$10,000
EQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $7k → 17%FREEDOM OKLAHOMA: $10k → 16%PROMO FUND: $53k → 21%EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE: $9k → 14%EQUALITY MAINE FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%PROMO FUND: $34k → 21%PROMO FUND: $18k → 21%PROMO FUND: $12k → 21%PROMO FUND: $10k → 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

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX

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.

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 0% since the first grant, against -14% 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

14
17

Total granted

$673k
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-14%

Still filing today

86%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
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 +139%
  • FJ
    FREESTATE JUSTICE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $92k · revenue +67%
  • GARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -100%
  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • OI
    OUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -14%

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
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
3
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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4
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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5
National Trans Bar Association
Education
6
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
7
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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8
Equality New Mexico Foundation

Ending discrimination for LGBTQ individuals and ALL New Mexicans through outreach and education

Human Services
9
Equality Pennsylvania Education Fund

Legal & public policy advocacy

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10
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
11
The Foundation for Gender Equality
Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Wisconsin Education Fund Inc 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%61%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

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 — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,527

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
11/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Equality Ohio Education Fund — $66,300 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education FundFreedom Oklahoma Action Fund — $64,500 · Civil RightsFreedom Oklahoma Action FundFAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $23,500 · Civil RightsFAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND …ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · Civil RightsONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUNDONE IOWA — $19,500 · Civil RightsONE IOWACATALYST MONTANA — $14,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC — $14,000 · Civil RightsMASSEQUALITY EDUCATION FUNDORG INC — $12,500 · Civil RightsBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND — $12,500 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NC — $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK — $10,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT — $10,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $20,000 · Civil Rights+3 moreFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCA…NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHT…ARKANSAS BLACK GAY MENS FORUM — $33,300 · OtherARKANSAS BLACK GAY MENS FORUMTRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS — $24,000 · OtherTRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK O…FORUM FOR EQUALITY LOUISIANA — $12,500 · OtherTRANSOHIO — $11,500 · OtherLouisiana Trans Advocates Foundation — $24,800 · OtherLouisiana Trans Advocates Found…+7 more — $52,000 · Other+7 morePROMO FUND — $126,750 · Human ServicesPROMO FUNDFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd — $112,600 · Human ServicesFreedom Oklahoma Education …EqualityMaine Foundation — $12,750 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human Services+2 moreFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $91,900 · Crime & LegalFREESTATE…CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA — $54,800 · Community ImprovementGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND — $50,100 · EducationOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA — $32,500 · Arts & Culture
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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROMO FUND — $126,750 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd — $112,600 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFREESTATE JUSTICE INC — $91,900 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $66,300 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA — $54,800 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND — $50,100 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA — $32,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetLouisiana Trans Advocates Foundation — $24,800 over 2y, 15% of budgetFAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC — $23,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetONE IOWA — $19,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCATALYST MONTANA — $14,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEqualityMaine Foundation — $12,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMASSEQUALITY EDUCATION FUNDORG INC — $12,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND — $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEQUALITY NC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAFFA ACTION — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING — $9,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE — $8,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORUM FOR EQUALITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBAGLY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEquality Arizona Foundation — $6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FederationTides FoundationGill FoundationTrevor Project IncAmalgamated Charitabl…All Hands on Deck Net…Wellspring Philanthro…NEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund IncNew Venture FundMightycause Charitabl…Human Rights Campaign…
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

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Basic Rights Education Fund — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 38 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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