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Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues

Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and gender justice.

$650k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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60% of Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Proteus Fund Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
6
’18
5
’19
4
’20
4
’21
4
’22
4
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$260k0%
FY20234$433k0%
FY20224$178k0%
FY20214$494k0%
FY20204$392k25%
FY20195$188k20%
FY20186$250k0%
FY20177$176kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.1MCivil Rights$1.3MArts & Culture$693kPublic Benefit$355kCommunity Improvement$270kHuman Services$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kYouth Development$14k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
AR
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alternate RootsInc$693,00053%
Campaign For Southern Equality$680,000811%
Southern Vision Alliance$515,00083%
Eagle Market Streets Development Co$157,50065%
Appalachian Community Fund$125,000317%
Out Miami Foundation$90,0003n/a
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$50,0002n/a
Foundation for Louisiana$50,00020%
Philanthrofund Foundation Inc$8,75021%

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.

United Philanthropy ForumDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Philanthropy Forum · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fund for Southern Communities Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Impactassetsinc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues

How much does Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues give?
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues reported 12 grants totaling $650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Civil Rights (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alternate RootsInc ($693k), Campaign For Southern Equality ($680k), Southern Vision Alliance ($515k).
Does Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Philanthropy Forum, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues based?
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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