· Public charity
IOLA Foundation
It Gets Better's mission is to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth around the globe.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homeless Gay Kids - Houston DBA Tony's Place | $10,000 |
| Prism United | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Board of School Directors dba Milwaukee Public Schools | $10,000 |
| Montour School District GSA | $10,000 |
| Safe School South Florida Inc | $10,000 |
| Phoenix Elementary School District #1 | $10,000 |
| Coalition For A Drug-Free Hawaii | $10,000 |
| Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation | $10,000 |
| Safe Schools Desert Cities Corp | $10,000 |
| Boise Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Fairness West Virginia Institute | $10,000 |
| REACH LA DBA Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health | $10,000 |
| Central Arkansas Pride | $10,000 |
| Young Women's Preparatory Network | $10,000 |
| APAC A3 - Artist Advocates & Accolades A3-Visual | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AAAPAC A3 - ARTISTS ADVOCATES & ACCOLADES3× · 2022–2024 · $30k
- CACENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -56%
- FWFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -15%
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -50%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGITone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -38%
- MCMontgomery County Public Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Public Education.
Lumen High School is committed to empowering two generations by providing high academic standards, a specialized early learning center, and wrap-around supports to meet the layered needs of teen parents.
The pride academy charter school endeavours to ignite success in middle school students of all abilities through a curriculum rooted in the values of peace, respect, integrity, determination and empathy by establishing a community…
Public Education.
At Compass, social and emotional learning is as important as academic achievement. We teach to students strengths, ensuring academic growth and success with self-advocacy and learning skills, meeting students where they are while…
To unleash all learners' potential. now.
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Public Education.
Provide education for students in Pre-K through 8th grade, benefitting approximately 415 students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 108 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii ↗
- Who funds Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc ↗
- Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT ↗
- Who funds FREMONT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Portage Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Prism United ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Arts and College Preparatory Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · 1million Project Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Round It Up America Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Youth Service America · Undies for Everyone · Reading Is Fundamental 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 IOLA 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.
- Le Monde Immersion — 1% of income from government
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.
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