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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $1,381,120, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,833,379 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $452,259 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 · 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
ARIANNA'S CENTER$23,000
CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN'S CAUCUS$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

+120%
+5%

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
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

  • 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 +271%

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%
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
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
2
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
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
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
5
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.

—
6
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
7
Global Black Gay Men Connect Corporation

To build an activist movement of Black Gay Men that is financially sustainable and equipped to provide equal access to health care education and opportunities for economic prosperity and talent recognition Our Movement affirms the human…

Human Services
8
National Trans Bar Association
Education
9
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
10
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
11
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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12
Atlanta Black Pride Inc

To educate, celebrate, promote self-empowerment and ensure that the social and cultural needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and families are met throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rainbow Railroad Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 95 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
46/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER STREET WEST ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetAmerican Counseling Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTMEMPHIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBROTHERS UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAIDS UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PREVENTION INTERVENTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUT & EQUAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Human Rights Campaign Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 95 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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