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Freedom for All Americans Education Fund

The FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND is dedicated to increasing public awareness around the urgent need for full nondiscrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people nationwide.

$50k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2017–2023.

Civil Rights$3.5MYouth Development$25kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$35,062
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY$35,062
PFLAG$15,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $372k → 16%BRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%SERVICES & ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $200k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY: $35k → 14%PFLAG: $15k → 11%EQUALITY FEDERATION: $10k → 12%EQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 8%FAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 18%IDENTITY INC: $10k → 22%COUNCIL OF STATE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE: $25k → 9%BOSTON ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER YOUTH: $25k → 16%LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $300k → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $400k → 14%GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $8k → 16%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $1.9M → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $73k → 14%FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS: $77k → 14%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

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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 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.

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National Trans Bar Association
Education
2
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
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
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
5
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.

Civil Rights
6
Freedom for All Massachusetts Inc

Freedom for all massachusetts is the bipartisan campaign to ensure fair and equal treatment for transgender people by defending the common wealth's laws against discrimination in public spaces such as restaurants, retail stores, and…

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7
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
8
Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…

Civil Rights
9
National Lgbtq Task Force Action Fund Inc

National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…

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10
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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11
Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights
12
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation Institute and the most unlike its peers is National Association of State Chambers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS — $2,027,140 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANSFREEDOM MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $371,500 · OtherFREEDOM MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INCSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $200,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC+7 more — $114,264 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $472,832 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INCLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $300,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC…ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $35,062 · Civil Rights+7 more — $78,000 · Civil Rights+7 more
Other$2,712,904Civil Rights$885,894

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS — $2,027,140 over 2y, 69% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $472,832 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFREEDOM MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $371,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $35,062 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE CHAMBERS — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBAGLY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPFLAG — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIdentity Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Trevor Project IncTides FoundationEvelyn and Walter Haa…Amalgamated Charitabl…Laughing Gull Foundat…Gill FoundationArcus FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Trevor Project IncCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trevor Project Inc · Tides Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Laughing Gull Foundation · Gill Foundation · Arcus Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Freedom for All Americans Education Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%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
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report 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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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