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Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting public education and welfare for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq+) community.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
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.

Civil Rights$9.1MHealth$621kPublic Benefit$341kHuman Services$202kEducation$121kEmployment$73kPhilanthropy$48kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $1,381,120 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,833,379 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $452,259 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 $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $251k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$23,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC$1,000,000
THE FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$55,000
AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND$50,000
DESTINATION TOMORROW$33,000
ABOUNDING PROSPERITY INC$26,000
CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN'S CAUCUS$23,000
ARIANNA'S CENTER$23,000
THRIVE SS INC$23,000
ALPHA TRANS CORP DBA PUERTO RICO TRANSGENDER WELLNESS CENTER$23,000
YOUNG SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC EMPOWERMENT DBA TRUEVOLUTION$23,000
LIONEL LEE JR CENTER FOR WELLNESS$20,000
POWER RISING$15,000
NATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION$12,000
FREEDOM OKLAHOMA EDUCATION CAMPAIGN LTD$10,020
NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COLLECTIVE INC$10,000
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, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DESTINATION TOMORROW: $33k → 28%ABOUNDING PROSPERITY INC: $26k → 14%THE FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $55k → 10%CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN'S CAUCUS: $23k → 14%BROTHERHOOD INC: $10k → 23%THE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%DESTINATION TOMORROW INC: $10k → 28%ABOUNDING PROSPERITY INC: $23k → 14%CBE-PRIDE: $10k → 14%MIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $10k → 13%OUTMEMPHIS: $10k → 17%CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN'S CAUCUS: $23k → 14%BROTHERHOOD INC: $10k → 23%THE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%ABOUNDING PROSPERITY: $9k → 14%NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COLLECTIVE INC: $10k → 14%MIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $9k → 13%THE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%MIRACLE OF LOVE INC: $8k → 13%GAITHERING FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 17%HIPS: $9k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 21 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
63

Total granted

$9.6M
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +20%
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $225k · revenue +120%
  • MF
    MUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES
    3× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • RI
    RESOURCE IMPACTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue +32%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue -66%
  • TRILLIUM HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +10%

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
Lgbtq Victory Institute Inc

LGBTQ Victory Institute works to achieve and sustain equality through leadership development, trainings, research and convenings. We work around the globe to increase the number, expand the diversity, and ensure the success of out LGBTQ+…

Civil Rights
2
National Trans Bar Association
Education
3
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
4
African American Office of Gay Concerns

To comprehensively serve as a resource for the well-being of gay men of color, inclusive but not limited to gay, bisexual & transgender & questioning communities through outreach, education & care.

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5
Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc

Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Civil Rights
6
Afro Pride Federation Inc

Afro Pride fosters the mental and social wellness of the Afrocentric LGBTQ community and those who love and support them.

Human Services
7
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
8
Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights
9
3 Kings Project

3 Kings Project is at the forefront of driving positive representation and visibility in minority communities, with a mission to eradicate health inequities impacting Black and Brown LGBTQ populations.

Civil Rights
10
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
11
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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12
Rainbow Health Minnesota

To work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation Institute and the most unlike its peers is Community Health Prevention Intervention Education & Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr15%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr16%84%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/95
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,906

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

84 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. 84 of the 95 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
47/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $8,490,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC+20 more — $591,114 · Civil Rights+20 moreFAITH IN AMERICA INC — $70,000 · OtherALPHA TRANS CORP — $52,000 · OtherARIANNA'S CENTER — $51,000 · OtherTRILLIUM HEALTH INC — $34,650 · OtherBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,469 · OtherEMIL K WILBEKIN FOUNDATION INC DBA NATIVE SON — $30,000 · OtherSTART SOMEWHERE LLC — $25,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $40,000 · Other+27 more — $286,594 · OtherTHE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesABOUNDING PROSPERITY INC — $58,000 · Human ServicesFreedom Center for Social Justice — $55,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUS — $46,000 · Human ServicesDESTINATION TOMORROW INC — $43,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE OF LOVE INC — $26,500 · Human ServicesBROTHERHOOD INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $54,070 · Human ServicesTHRIVE SS INC — $56,000 · HealthNational Minority AIDS Council — $30,000 · HealthLIONEL LEE JR CENTER FOR WELLNESS — $20,000 · HealthNAESM INC — $17,100 · HealthUS HELPING US PEOPLE INTO LIVING INC — $13,500 · HealthThe Center for Black Health and Equity — $10,000 · HealthBROTHERS UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation — $9,000 · HealthNorth Carolina Aids Action Network — $9,000 · HealthERISE WILLIAMS AND ASSOCIATES INC — $8,700 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $7,500 · HealthAIDS PROJECT OF THE EAST BAY — $7,500 · Health+2 more — $10,923 · HealthRESOURCE IMPACT — $90,000 · EducationPOWER RISING — $15,000 · EducationAIDS UNITED — $10,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $7,500 · EducationTRANS WOMEN IN NEED OF SERVICES INC — $7,000 · EducationFIRST BOOK — $6,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $6,000 · EducationNationz Foundation — $5,988 · EducationYoung Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc — $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMPOWERMENT ENTERPRISE II — $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES — $60,000 · Religion
Civil Rights$9,081,114Other$620,713Human Services$472,570Health$209,223Education$147,488Youth Development$88,000Religion$60,000

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 budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC — $8,490,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetRESOURCE IMPACT — $90,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH IN AMERICA INC — $70,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMUSLIMS FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES — $60,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetABOUNDING PROSPERITY INC — $58,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc — $56,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom Center for Social Justice — $55,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO BLACK GAY MENS CAUCUS — $46,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDESTINATION TOMORROW INC — $43,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRILLIUM HEALTH INC — $34,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERMENT ENTERPRISE II — $32,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,469 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNational Minority AIDS Council — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEMIL K WILBEKIN FOUNDATION INC DBA NATIVE SON — $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMIRACLE OF LOVE INC — $26,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTOPHER STREET WEST ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC — $23,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBROTHERHOOD INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Counseling Association — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONEL LEE JR CENTER FOR WELLNESS — $20,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAESM INC — $17,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budget1N10 INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $14,114 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUS HELPING US PEOPLE INTO LIVING INC — $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd — $10,020 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAIDS UNITED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PREVENTION INTERVENTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUTMEMPHIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUT & EQUAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONEPULSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

AIDS UnitedElton John AIDS Found…Borealis PhilanthropyThe Elizabeth Taylor …Tides FoundationAIDS Healthcare Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…Groundswell FundOur Fund Foundation I…Planned Parenthood Fe…Broadway Caresequity …Human Rights Campaign…
AIDS UnitedDC51.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AIDS United · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation · Tides Foundation · AIDS Healthcare Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Groundswell Fund · Our Fund Foundation Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Human Rights Campaign 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 Human Rights Campaign 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 · 80%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Miracle of Love Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
23report 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 95 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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