How much did GRASS ROOTS GAY RIGHTS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Health$234kHousing & Shelter$219kHuman Services$213kCivil Rights$92kYouth Development$63kPhilanthropy$53kCommunity Improvement$34kCrime & Legal$20kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$431k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

outreach education

2020

outreach education

2021

outreach educationoutreacheducationoutreach education

2022

alliesqueerlesbian bisexual

2023

mealsvulnerablelivingmedically tailoredlgbthiv aidsfight against

2024

lawmusicgirlsenvironmentconnectsofferfight against

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $10k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$50k–250k4 grants · $212k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$403k

Total assets

Largest grants

LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$54,500
BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP$52,500
GIVE US THE FLOOR$52,500
QUEER LIFE SPACE$52,500
ONYX NORTHWEST$10,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$10,000
NATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL GROVE$2,000
SF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$2,000
MUSIC CONNECTS FOUNDATION$2,000
FOLSOM STREET EVENTS$2,000
THE SF LGBT CENTER$2,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$692k · 11 repeat orgs$680k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$692k

$561k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+92%

Still filing today

91%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

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OPENHOUSE
2× · 2019–2020 · $155k · revenue +138%
QL
QUEER LIFE SPACE
3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +106%
LS
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES
2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +29%

Funded once

SF
SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
one grant, 2020 · $81k
SF
SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
one grant, 2022 · $70k
DS
DOLORES STREET COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $64k · revenue +185%

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.

The Gala Pride and Diversity Center

The gay and lesbian alliance of the central coast supports and empowers people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions to strengthen and unite our central coast community.

Unclassified

The Gay & Lesbian Community Center

A) on april 13, 2024, the pride center at equality park hosted a day-long charrette with our distinctive stakeholders, donors, funders, elected officials, and community members. this charrette, vision 2035, updated the 2015 charrette which…

Human Services

Imperial Court of Los Ageles Hollywood

Community services

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The Spahr Center

The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.

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Lgbtq Center Lake County

The organization is dedicated to providing space, diverse programing, and cultural activities in an affirming, compassionate, and safe environment in the greater Lake County area.

Human Services

Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness

Civil Rights

Los Angeles Lgbt Center

Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society.

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African American Office of Gay Concerns

To comprehensively serve as resource for the wellbeing of gay men of color inclusive but not limited to the gay bisexual transgender

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Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal

Gays and Lesbians in a Transgender Society

Services&supportforthelgbtqia+population

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Golden Gate Business Association

Ggba services businesses owned by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities in san Francisco.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual and the most unlike its peers is Maitri Compassionate Care. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/35

the rest of the field

11%

1,792/16,647

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.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$498,728Health$233,725Housing & Shelter$218,993Human Services$212,539Civil Rights$92,000Youth Development$62,500Philanthropy$52,993

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.

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.

Horizons FoundationCA43.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Dignity Health · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 organisation GRASS ROOTS GAY RIGHTS FOUNDATION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: QUEER LIFE SPACE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452451077 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on QUEER LIFE SPACE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GRASS ROOTS GAY RIGHTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation?

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GRASS ROOTS GAY RIGHTS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation?

More from the funding graph