California · 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.
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $238k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 51
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $720k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations IOLA Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $238k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $220k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $508k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $490k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ansonia Public School | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Apac A3 - Artists Advocates & Accolades | $29,952 | 3 | n/a |
| Howard County Public School System | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Safe Schools South Florida | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Montour School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Arkansas Pride Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Maine Township 207 | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Safe Schools Desert Cities Corp | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salem City Schools | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ansonia Public School | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Apac A3 - Artists Advocates & Accolades | $29,952 | 3 | n/a |
| Howard County Public School System | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Safe Schools South Florida | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Montour School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Arkansas Pride Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Maine Township 207 | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Safe Schools Desert Cities Corp | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salem City Schools | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Students for Educational Equity in the United States | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fairness Wv Institute Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Phoenix Elementary School District #1 | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Baldwin Park Usd | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Public Schools | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Indy Pride Inc | $19,923 | 2 | 1% |
| AZTECH Robotics LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hazen Union High School Distr | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Island Public Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cape Elizabeth School Department | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Haven Pride Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brookfield YDA | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portage Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 19% |
| United Gays & Lesbians of Wyoming | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kansas City Center for Inclusion Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Prism Fl Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Partnership Academy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jamieson Education Family and Friends | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arawakan Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Orleans Pride Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Pitt High School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Are Family | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Martha O'Bryan Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Franklin Township Public School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Envision Education Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Centennial GSA (Genders and Sexualities Alliance) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Somerville | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Services of Tulsa Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Telluride Early Childhood Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Pride | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana Online Learning Options Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Renaissance Academy Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Summit School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Bay Area Public School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Lgbt Community Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prism United | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Arts and College Preparatory Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Intrepid College Preparatory School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Iyg Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Le Monde Immersion | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kaukauna Area School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Federal City Performing Arts Association | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Worcester County Board of Educatio | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Communities in School of Whatcom Skagit | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| ASMSA Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Isd #879 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anaheim Union High School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Board of Cooperative Educational Services- Rockland | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waukee Comm School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boise Public Schools Education Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodstown-Pilesgrove School Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dubuque Community School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birmingham Public School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Preparatory Charter Public School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waterloo Listens | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Carver's Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cumberland Regional School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Goshen Community Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fremont High School Alumni Associat | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Gaay Sports | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center City Public Charter Schools | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Women's Preparatory Network | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mountain Plains Youth Works | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Edward Smith School PTO Organization | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vermillion Public Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Fourth City Sisters | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Armadillo Community Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lewiston Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Celebrate Diversity | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| IDEA Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dreamhouse 'Ewa Beach Public Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Haynes Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Richland School District 400 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Franklin | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Newport News City Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dutchess Boces | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Racine Unified School District Veba Health Savings Trust | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Forks Public School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Public Schools Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Youth Outlook | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colchester School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maricopa Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Small Town Open Hearts Project | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Surry Village Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Diego Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Movement | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Potsdam Central School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hackensack Board of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Kingstown School Department | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Howard Co Public Schools Education Fndn | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Davis Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Polyphony Hs | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Tony's Place | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kentucky Youth Law Project Inc | $9,994 | 1 | n/a |
| Putnam City Schools | $9,985 | 1 | n/a |
| The Highlander Charter School | $9,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Muscatine High School | $9,814 | 1 | n/a |
| City Schools of Decatur | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Hills Middle School GSA | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Piper Unified School District No 203 | $9,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Richardson Independent School District | $9,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Give US the Floor | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dzanc Books Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Compass Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| FCPS Pride LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| LiveWell Camas | $7,500 | 1 | 7% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget IOLA Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About IOLA Foundation
- How much does IOLA Foundation give?
- IOLA Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $237,500, out of $252,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 51 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does IOLA Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Civil Rights (6%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are IOLA Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Ansonia Public School ($30k), Apac A3 - Artists Advocates & Accolades ($30k), Howard County Public School System ($20k).
- Does IOLA Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as IOLA Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Share Our Strength, Project Lead the Way Inc, GenYOUTH Incorporated.
- Where is IOLA Foundation based?
- IOLA Foundation is based in CA.
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