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Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc

Lambda legal defense and education fund, inc. Is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and anyone living with hiv through impact litigation, education, and public policy.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,268
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,268
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$108M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$9k100%
FY20241$30k100%
FY20211$450kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$450kPublic Benefit$30kHousing & Shelter$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Human Rights Campaign Inc$450,00011%
Campaign Communication Solutions Inc$30,0001n/a
National Network for Youth Inc$9,26811%

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About Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc

How much does Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc give?
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc reported 1 grants totaling $9,268 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (92%), Public Benefit (6%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
Who are Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Human Rights Campaign Inc ($450k), Campaign Communication Solutions Inc ($30k), National Network for Youth Inc ($9k).
Does Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc based?
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc is based in NY.

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 3 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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