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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$1.0MCivil Rights$70kYouth Development$30kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$20kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $237,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $252,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 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 $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$720k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hazen Union High School District$10,000
AZTECH Robotics LLC$10,000
New Orleans Pride Center$10,000
Polyphony Hs$10,000
Federal City Performing Arts Association Inc$10,000
San Diego Unified Council of PTAs$10,000
Native Movement$10,000
Fourth City Sisters$10,000
North Haven Pride Inc$10,000
Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle$10,000
Indiana Youth Group Inc$10,000
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center$10,000
Youth Services of Tulsa$10,000
Safe School South Florida Inc$10,000
PRISM FL 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 (FY22–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Youthworks: $10k → 11%Give Us The Floor: $8k → 10%Homeless Gay Kids - Houston DBA Tony's Place: $10k → 16%Youth Services of Tulsa: $10k → 15%Prism United: $10k → 19%Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $10k → 8%Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $10k → 8%Indiana Youth Group Inc: $10k → 16%New Orleans Pride Center: $10k → 23%Milwaukee LGBT Community Center: $10k → 17%REACH LA DBA Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health: $10k → 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

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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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$380k · 18 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$380k
$888k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

44%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MC
    Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • CF
    Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • IP
    Indy Pride Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -50%
  • CE
    Cape Elizabeth School Department
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • WN
    WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Pride Academy Charter School

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…

Education
2
Lumen Public School

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.

Education
3
Compass High School

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…

Education
4
Iowa Safe Schools

The mission of iowa safe schools is to provide safe, supportive, and nurturing learning environments and communities for lgbtq youth through education, outreach, victim services, and advocacy.

Education
5
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network Dba Gsa Network

To empower and train LGBTQ students and young people to organize and advocate for safe schools and healthy communities.

Civil Rights
6
Compass Public Charter School

Public Education.

Education
7
Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education
8
Pathways High Inc

To unleash all learners' potential. now.

Education
9
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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Ascend College Prep

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…

Education
11
Proud Academy Inc

Proud academy's mission is to educate and empower lgbtq+ students and their peers to thrive as evolving learners and as their most authentic selves within a safe, affirming and student-centered learning community.

Education
12
Just Schools

Every student has the right to be affirmed and supported at school, but many queer* and trans students are still denied these rights. when students are free to learn without discrimination, the entire school community thrives. just schools…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Education Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
30/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+78 more: $902,551 · Other+78 moreSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA: $20,000 · EducationSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH F…Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc: $20,000 · EducationMagic City Acceptanc…GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPortage Education Foundation: $10,000 · EducationPartnership Academy Inc: $10,000 · EducationENVISION EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · EducationINDIANA ONLINE LEARNING OPTIONS INC: $10,000 · EducationRENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationArts and College Preparatory Academy: $10,000 · EducationINTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationLE MONDE IMMERSION: $10,000 · EducationBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationWOODSTOWN-PILESGROVE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationYpsilanti Community Schools Foundation: $10,000 · EducationFREMONT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIAT: $10,000 · EducationCENTER CITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $10,000 · EducationVERMILLION PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationARMADILLO COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationIDEA Public Schools: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN: $10,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSURRY VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationHoward Co Public Schools Education Fndn: $10,000 · EducationTHE HIGHLANDER CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,950 · EducationCENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsSAFE SCHOOLS DESERT CITIES CORP: $20,000 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsThe Pride Foundation: $20,000 · Civil RightsPRISM FL INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMILY: $10,000 · Civil RightsKentucky Youth Law Project Inc: $9,994 · Civil RightsEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS PRIDE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPrism United: $10,000 · Human ServicesIYG INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRealistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA: $10,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTony's Place: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIVE US THE FLOOR: $7,500 · Human ServicesIndy Pride Inc: $19,923 · Recreation & SportsUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLiveWell Camas: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsFederal City Performing Arts Association: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePOLYPHONY HS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDZANC BOOKS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH OUTLOOK: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$902,551Education$269,950Civil Rights$109,994Human Services$107,500Recreation & Sports$37,423Arts & Culture$27,500Youth Development$20,000

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 budgetSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSAFE SCHOOLS DESERT CITIES CORP: $20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetMagic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCoalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Pride Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIndy Pride Inc: $19,923 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPortage Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY CENTER FOR INCLUSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPartnership Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAWAKAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF TULSA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PRIDE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDIANA ONLINE LEARNING OPTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrism United: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetArts and College Preparatory Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIYG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLE MONDE IMMERSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFederal City Performing Arts Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOISE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREMONT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIAT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetRealistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER CITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMILLION PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetARMADILLO COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSMITH-BARBIERI PROGRESSIVE FUND A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSURRY VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHoward Co Public Schools Education Fndn: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLYPHONY HS: $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

  • Who funds SAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE SCHOOLS DESERT CITIES CORP ↗
  • Who funds Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc ↗
  • Who funds FAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii ↗
  • Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds Indy Pride Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Portage Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY CENTER FOR INCLUSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRISM FL INC ↗
  • Who funds Partnership Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARAWAKAN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS PRIDE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WE ARE FAMILY ↗

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.

Share Our StrengthProject Lead the Way …GenYOUTH IncorporatedFor Inspiration and R…Project Lead the Way …1million Project Foun…Action for Healthy Ki…Round It Up America I…I Car Education Found…Youth Service AmericaUndies for EveryoneReading Is Fundamenta…
Share Our StrengthDC25.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Le Monde Immersion: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report 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.
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How do I get to IOLA Foundation?

Find your warmest path to IOLA Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 128 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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