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National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

Advocating on behalf of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (lgbt) owned businesses, professional, student of business, and corporations.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 69 grants below total $706,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,553,314 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $846,814 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $233k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $474k
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER HOUSTON LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$24,500
GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$22,500
ROAD TO SEDONA INC$20,000
NGLCCNY$20,000
OUT GEORGIA BUSINESS ALLIANCE$16,500
PLAYBILL ONLINE$15,000
PLAY LOUNGE & CAF$15,000
NORTH TEXAS LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
ALYNN SILLIMAN - TAPROOTS$15,000
PANF LLC$15,000
MYTH GASTROBAR$15,000
SONNY'S BAR AND GRILL$15,000
ADRIAN Y XIMENA CORP$15,000
BOOZEHOUNDS$10,000
THE NICOLLET DINER & ROXY'S CABARET$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NAVOBA: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 34 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
141

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • UB
    US Black Chambers Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $349k · revenue +67%
  • UP
    US PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $319k · revenue +350%
  • US
    UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $319k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CG
    CAFE GABRIELA LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CG
    CAFE GABRIELA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AP
    ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tucson Lgbt Chamber of Commerce

promote LGBT/allied businesses in SoAZ

Community Improvement
2
Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

To foster leadership for economic activity and to develop a positive environment for lgbt and allied businesses, organizations, individuals, and consumers.

Community Improvement
3
Grand Strand Pride

Advancing acceptance of the Grand Strand LGBT community through increased visibility.

Community Improvement
4
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce Foundation

The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce Foundation develops leaders in the LGBTQ+ community.

Philanthropy
5
Gay and Lesbian Alliance of North Texas

Celebrating diversity & enhancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer north texans.

Education
6
National Trans Bar Association
Education
7
Tennessee Pride Chamber of Commerce

The nashville lgbt chamber of commerce exists to advance common business interests, economic growth and equality in the workplace and society for its lgbtq members, businesses and allies by providing educational, networking and…

Community Improvement
8
Inland Northwest Business Alliance

The inba develops a prosperous business community by advocating lgbt and ally perspectives in order to create an economically robust and civically engaged community through the acceptance of diversity throughtout the inland northwest.

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9
Lgbt Bar Assn of Los Angeles Lgbtq Lawyers Assn of Los Angeles
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10
Safe Zone Utah

To help ut lgbt and allied businesses

Philanthropy
11
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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12
Cbe-Pride

To promote a multinational lgbtq network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities economic empowerment and social equity while promoting individual and collective work responsibility and self-determination

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Com and the most unlike its peers is Matthew Shepard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%2/218
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,347

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 232 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
28/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $318,563 · OtherUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCEUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $318,563 · OtherUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCEPITCHERS LLC — $200,000 · OtherPITCHERS LLCJ&B JOINT VENTURES INC — $200,000 · OtherJ&B JOINT VENTURES INC+163 more — $2,332,250 · Other+163 moreUS Black Chambers Inc — $348,563 · Community ImprovementUS Black Chambers IncGREATER HOUSTON LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER CHAMBER OF COM — $128,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER HOUSTON LESBIAN GAY B…OUT Georgia Business Alliance — $109,100 · Community ImprovementOUT Georgia Business AllianceINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $79,250 · Community ImprovementINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANC…MIAMI-DADE GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $63,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Seattle Business Association — $48,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO BUSINESS COUNCIL INC — $47,500 · Community ImprovementTHE PRIDE CHAMBER — $47,000 · Community Improvement+15 more — $292,250 · Community Improvement+15 moreMATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION — $90,397 · Civil RightsADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE CHICAGO AREA GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $34,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER FORT LAUDERDALE GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $22,500 · EmploymentTENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EducationMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,369,376Community Improvement$1,262,663Civil Rights$125,397Philanthropy$34,500Employment$22,500Education$12,500Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$10,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUS Black Chambers Inc — $348,563 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $318,563 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER CHAMBER OF COM — $128,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetOUT Georgia Business Alliance — $109,100 over 6y, 13% of budgetMATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION — $90,397 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGolden Gate Business Association — $90,250 over 6y, 11% of budgetINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $79,250 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMIAMI-DADE GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $63,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGreater Seattle Business Association — $48,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO BUSINESS COUNCIL INC — $47,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE PRIDE CHAMBER — $47,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetNORTH TEXAS GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $41,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetDESERT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $40,500 over 3y, 33% of budgetTWIN CITIES QUORUM — $37,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE CHICAGO AREA GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $34,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetWISCONSIN LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $32,750 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMARYLAND LGBTQ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $30,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetVALLEY BUSINESS ALLIANCE dba Los Angeles LGBTQ Chamber of Commerc — $26,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDISABILITYIN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAROLINAS LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $22,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER FORT LAUDERDALE GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $22,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetUTAH GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER — $18,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGreater Phoenix Equality Chamber of Commerce — $16,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUPSTATE SC LGBT CHAMBER — $13,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe GSBA Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetNATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRainbow Chamber of Commerce — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $9,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetDetroit Regional LGBT Chamber of Co — $9,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNortheast Ohio Equality Business As — $9,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRAINBOW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $8,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGREATER SAN DIEGO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Ace FoundationPidc Financing Corpor…City First Enterprise…Local Initiatives Sup…
Ace FoundationDC11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ace Foundation · Pidc Financing Corporation · City First Enterprises Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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 National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce?

    Find your warmest path to National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 232 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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