Washington, D.C. · Public charity
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. The hrc foundation envisions a world where lgbtq+ people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at…
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Human Rights Campaign Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $1.4M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.5M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.0M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.1M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $925k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.1M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.2M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.4M | 82% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights Campaign Inc | $8,490,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $225,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Resource Impact | $90,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Faith in America Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Muslims for Progressive Values | $60,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Abounding Prosperity Inc | $58,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Thrive Ss Inc | $56,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc | $56,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | $55,000 | 1 | 10% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Human Rights Campaign Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Human Rights Campaign Foundation
- How much does Human Rights Campaign Foundation give?
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $1,381,120, out of $1,833,379 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Human Rights Campaign Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (85%), Health (6%), Public Benefit (3%).
- Who are Human Rights Campaign Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Human Rights Campaign Inc ($8.5M), The Voter Participation Center ($225k), The Tyler Clementi Foundation Inc ($150k).
- Does Human Rights Campaign Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Human Rights Campaign Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AIDS United, Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc, Borealis Philanthropy.
- Where is Human Rights Campaign Foundation based?
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation is based in DC.
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