· Public charity
Equality Illinois Institute
EQUALITY ILLINOIS INSTITUTE builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,167 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,167 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–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EQUALITY ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EIEQUALITY ILLINOIS8× · 2017–2024 · $424k · revenue +198% · 54% of their budget
- PPPRAIRIE PRIDE COALITION INC3× · 2018–2021 · $25k
- PPPEORIA PROUD2× · 2018–2019 · $9k
Funded once
- TPThe Phoenix Community Centerone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -13%
- AEACORN EQUALITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -2% · 65% of their budget
- RCRAINBOW CAFE LGBTQ CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue +93%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To promote economic opportunities for the lgbt community by being an advocate and resource for all member businesses that encorage equality.
Funds will be used to provide pharmaceuticals, support, resources, and programs to communities of color, lgbtq, and other oppressed communities.
Equality illinois institute builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
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.
To achieve full equality and respect for all michigan residents, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
The Coalition of Rainbow Alliances (CORAL) is a non-profit, volunteer group that facilitates networking and community for the Central Illinois lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, all other sexual and gender minorities, their…
To foster understanding and equality for the LGBTQIA community
Prism Counseling and Advocacy was established to ensure that comprehensive, accessible, and culturally appropriate mental and physical health care are provided to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, families,…
Phoenix pride unites, educates, and engages people to support and empower the lgbtq community and our allies.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
To strengthen the St. Louis queer/LGBTQIA+ communitys ability to navigate conflict/harm by building our collective capacity for peer support, healing justice, and systems change, through education, community-building, and storytelling.
Queer Asterisk empowers and nurtures the diverse ways of being that LGBTQ people embody by providing accessible counseling, education and community programs that uplift LGBTQ lives
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Writers Planners Trainers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds EQUALITY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Phoenix Community Center ↗
- Who funds ACORN EQUALITY FUND ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CAFE LGBTQ CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PEORIA PROUD ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WRITERS PLANNERS TRAINERS ↗
- Who funds AFFINITY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF LATINOS LATINAS LATINXS MOTIVATING ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds SITHUB ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pritzker Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · 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 Illinois 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.
- The Phoenix Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.