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Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation

Change lives by supporting organizations that promote a happy, healthy and connected bay area lgbtq community.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$513kHousing & Shelter$347kHealth$230kCommunity Improvement$185kArts & Culture$175kCivil Rights$125kHuman Services$96kCrime & Legal$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $285,430 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $328,679 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,249 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $213k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVE US THE FLOOR$53,320
BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP$53,320
LYRIC$53,320
THE SF LGBT CENTER$53,320
MATRI$11,915
LEATHER & LGBTQ CULTURAL DISTRICT$10,000
LYON MARTIN$10,000
OASIS LEGAL SERVICES$7,000
PEPPER DIET ACADEMY$7,000
SF AIDS FOUNDATION$7,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$7,000
TURN OUT$7,000
SISTERS OF PERPETUAL UNDULGENCE$5,235
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $53k → 10%LGBTQ CONNECTIONON THE MOVE: $28k → 10%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $53k → 10%LGBTQ CONNECTIONON THE MOVE: $27k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $55k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 10%TURN OUT: $7k → 10%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.

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 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$527k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

$1.3M
$474k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+23%

Still filing today

94%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • O
    Openhouse
    2× · 2019–2020 · $155k · revenue +4%
  • MA
    MISSION ACTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $128k · revenue +301%
  • QL
    QUEER LIFE SPACE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
    one grant, 2020 · $81k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • PH
    PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
    one grant, 2017 · $64k

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.

1
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
2
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
3
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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4
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
5
The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center

The san diego lgbt community center enhances and sustains the health & well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, nonbinary, immigrant, and hiv communities to the betterment of our entire san diego region.

Health
6
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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7
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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8
Los Angeles Lgbt Center

Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society. since its inception, the los angeles lgbt center (center) has been building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete…

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9
Pacific Center for Human Growth

Provides culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops in Alameda County with the aim to enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC…

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10
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…

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11
Queer Works

Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Health
12
Southern Arizona Aids Foundation

To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center and the most unlike its peers is St James Infirmary. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%46%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
12%
2,058/16,637

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

POSITIVE RESOURCE CENTER — $133,525 · OtherPOSITIVE RESOURCE CENTERSAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS — $80,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUSSAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS — $70,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUSPROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT — $64,173 · OtherPROJECT HOMELESS CONNECTIndividual grant recipient — $34,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE — $21,915 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $52,993 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES+19 more — $154,938 · Other+19 moreGIVE US THE FLOOR — $105,820 · Human ServicesGIVE US THE FLOORLarkin Street Youth Services — $104,500 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth …TIDES CENTER — $59,816 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERON THE MOVE — $54,727 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE+1 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesOpenhouse — $155,468 · Housing & ShelterOpenhouseMISSION ACTION INC — $127,698 · Housing & ShelterMISSION ACTION IN…QUEER LIFE SPACE INC — $112,500 · HealthQUEER LIFE SPA…AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $60,000 · HealthAIDS LEGAL REF…ST JAMES INFIRMARY — $57,225 · HealthST JAMES INFIR…LYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $4,000 · HealthBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP — $105,820 · Youth DevelopmentBAY AREA G…LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $63,320 · Youth DevelopmentLAVENDER Y…Oakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $64,500 · Community ImprovementSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $57,320 · Community ImprovementSOLANO PRIDE CENTER — $60,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center — $20,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $10,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $2,000 · Civil Rights
Other$612,544Human Services$331,863Housing & Shelter$283,166Health$243,725Youth Development$169,140Community Improvement$121,820Civil Rights$102,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOpenhouse — $155,468 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC — $127,698 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetQUEER LIFE SPACE INC — $112,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetGIVE US THE FLOOR — $105,820 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP — $105,820 over 2y, 30% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $104,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $64,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $63,320 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $60,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $59,816 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $57,320 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY — $57,225 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetON THE MOVE — $54,727 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $52,993 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE — $21,915 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTransgender Law Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFolsom Street — $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Immigrant Protection — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAAD INC — $5,781 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION — $5,714 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Open Hand — $3,817 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION EQUALITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Horizons FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Bay Area Physicians f…McNabb FoundationThe William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationWalter and Elise Haas…United Way of the Bay…
Horizons FoundationCA54.6× affinity24 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 · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights · McNabb Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · United Way of the Bay Area

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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