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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.

$318k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$513kHousing & Shelter$347kHealth$230kCommunity Improvement$185kArts & Culture$175kCivil Rights$125kHuman Services$96kCrime & Legal$77kOther$0
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $256,496, the rows itemized in this filing. The $318,251 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,755 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $218k
$10,680
Median grant
1
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OASIS LEGAL SERVICES$58,066
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$53,250
THE SF LGBT CENTER$53,250
LYRIC$53,250
LGBT SENIOR CENTER$10,680
INDEPENDENT ARTS AND MEDIA$10,000
UCSF ALLIANCE HEALTH PROJECT$6,000
PEPPER DIET ACADEMY$6,000
MAITRI$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$1.5M
$513k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+23%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • O
    Openhouse
    3× · 2019–2026 · $166k · revenue +4%
  • MA
    MISSION ACTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $128k · revenue +301%
  • LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC
    3× · 2022–2026 · $117k · revenue +6%

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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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3
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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4
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
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
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
7
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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8
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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9
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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10
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
11
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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE: $27,915 · OtherOasis Legal Services: $65,066 · OtherOasis Legal ServicesSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $53,250 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $52,993 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES+20 more: $169,938 · Other+20 moreGIVE US THE FLOOR: $105,820 · Human ServicesGIVE US THE FLOORLarkin Street Youth Services: $104,500 · Human ServicesLarkin Street You…TIDES CENTER: $59,816 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERON THE MOVE: $54,727 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesOpenhouse: $166,148 · Housing & ShelterOpenhouseMISSION ACTION INC: $127,698 · Housing & ShelterMISSION ACTION …QUEER LIFE SPACE INC: $112,500 · HealthQUEER LIFE SP…AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $60,000 · HealthAIDS LEGAL RE…ST JAMES INFIRMARY: $57,225 · HealthST JAMES INFI…LYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $116,570 · Youth DevelopmentLAVENDER YO…BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP: $105,820 · Youth DevelopmentBAY AREA GI…SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $110,570 · Community ImprovementSAN FRANC…Oakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc: $64,500 · Community ImprovementOakland L…SOLANO PRIDE CENTER: $60,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $20,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Other$751,860Human Services$331,863Housing & Shelter$293,846Health$243,725Youth Development$222,390Community Improvement$175,070Civil Rights$102,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpenhouse: $166,148 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $127,698 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $116,570 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetQUEER LIFE SPACE INC: $112,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $110,570 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP: $105,820 over 2y, 30% of budgetGIVE US THE FLOOR: $105,820 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $104,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOasis Legal Services: $65,066 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc: $64,500 over 2y, 5.2% 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 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: $27,915 over 3y, 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 budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Immigrant Protection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 50 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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