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· Public charity

Human Rights Campaign Inc

The human rights campaign is organized and operated for the promotion of the social welfare of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq+) community.

$749k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$76k
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$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$520kCommunity Improvement$152kArts & Culture$83kHealth$57kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $415,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $749,342 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $333,842 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$10,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ISSUES PAC$76,000
START SOMEWHERE LLC$20,000
PRIDE NORTHWEST INC$15,000
THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS$15,000
ATLANTA BLACK PRIDE WEEKEND LLC$15,000
CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE$15,000
MENSTRUAL MATES INC$10,000
UNDER THE UMBRELLA BOOKSTORE LLC$10,000
TRUDYS SPOT LLC$10,000
THE BODEGA LOUNGE NYC LLC$10,000
CLINICA PSICOALTERNATIVAS LLC$10,000
LITTLE LION COLLECTIVE$10,000
ROSE PELVIC PHYSIOTHERAPY LLC$10,000
TENDER BOIS CLUB LLC$10,000
SPEED-O CAPPUCCINO LLC$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 (FY18–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REBUILDING BROKEN PLACES CDC: $10k → 18%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE: $11k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC: $11k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $9k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC: $7k → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
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ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 24 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
108

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+24%

Still filing today

79%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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 ServicesPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AV
    America Votes
    8× · 2017–2024 · $409k · revenue +495%
  • EM
    EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $380k · revenue +260%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $228k · revenue +872%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +120%
  • VL
    VOTO LATINO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +556%
  • EN
    EQUALITY NC
    one grant, 2017 · $97k · revenue -55%
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
National Trans Bar Association
Education
2
Equal Rights for All Petition

Amends Constitution: Specifies that prohibited discrimination includes discrimination concerning gender identity/pregnancy, related health decisions, sexual orientation

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3
Equality Federation

Equality federation 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
4
Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…

Civil Rights
5
EqualityMaine

EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…

Civil Rights
6
Pride At Work Afl-Cio

Labor organization to educate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) people about their rights as workers, the organized labor movement and principles of trade union solidarity.

Civil Rights
7
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
8
Equality Utah

The organization pursues educational, lobbying, and poltical activities in order to further lesbain, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) interests within utah.

Civil Rights
9
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association

Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…

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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
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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12
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spill the Tea Cafe. 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

57 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. 57 of the 161 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/57
Grantees still filing
38/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOM FOR ALL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $300,000 · OtherFREEDOM FOR ALL MASSACHUSETTS INCTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $115,000 · OtherVOTO LATINO INC: $100,000 · OtherSouthern Nevada Association of PRIDE Inc: $93,638 · Other+124 more: $1,715,456 · Other+124 moreEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK: $380,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORKCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION: $227,938 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATIONTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $125,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTEREQUALITY NC: $97,200 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NCEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC: $75,270 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INCFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INCFreedom Oklahoma Action Fund: $55,000 · Civil RightsFuerte Arts Movement: $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $50,000 · Civil Rights+11 more: $186,916 · Civil Rights+11 moreAmerica Votes: $408,625 · Community ImprovementAmerica Vot…NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,500 · Community ImprovementCAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC: $84,235 · Human ServicesRebuilding Broken Places CDC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $8,500 · Human ServicesAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $50,000 · EducationINTERPRIDE: $18,000 · EducationMoveOnorg Civic Action: $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $25,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $20,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,324,094Civil Rights$1,322,324Community Improvement$431,125Human Services$109,735Education$78,000Philanthropy$60,000Public Benefit$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica Votes: $408,625 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK: $380,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION: $227,938 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $115,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEQUALITY NC: $97,200 over 1y, 14% of budgetSouthern Nevada Association of PRIDE Inc: $93,638 over 6y, 41% of budgetCAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC: $84,235 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA ACTION INC: $75,270 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $75,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFreedom Oklahoma Action Fund: $55,000 over 4y, 99% of budgetFuerte Arts Movement: $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFair Anchorage No on Prop 1: $32,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetPride Northwest Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NH: $30,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $26,166 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmte: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERPRIDE: $18,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPILL THE TEA CAFE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Broken Places CDC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHOR HEALTH INITIATIVE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR WISCONSIN INC: $5,500 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

Equality FederationAmerica VotesAll Hands on Deck Net…American Federation o…Human Rights Campaign…Open Society Action F…Sixteen Thirty FundNational Education As…American Unity Fund I…Equality Federation I…Tides AdvocacyFuture Forward USA Ac…
Equality FederationOR26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equality Federation · America Votes · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Human Rights Campaign Foundation · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · National Education Association of the United States · American Unity Fund Inc · Equality Federation Institute · Tides Advocacy · Future Forward USA Action

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pride Northwest Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 161 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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