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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.
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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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROTEUS FUND | $65,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $65,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY | $65,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BIRMINGHAM | $65,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $65,000 |
| ALTERNATE ROOTS | $65,000 |
| TEXAS PRIDE IMPACT FUNDS | $65,000 |
| SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE | $65,000 |
| EAGLE MARKET STREETS DEV CORP | $32,500 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND | $32,500 |
| BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCampaign For Southern Equality8× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +275%
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue ×25- EMEAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +622%
Funded once
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alternate RootsInc. 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 23 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 Alternate RootsInc ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROFUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues 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.
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.