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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$4.0MFood & Nutrition$605kRecreation & Sports$100kEducation$93kCivil Rights$92kArts & Culture$65kEmployment$38kScience & Tech$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 69 grants below total $706,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,553,314 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $846,814 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 · 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
NGLCCNY$20,000
ROAD TO SEDONA INC$20,000
OUT GEORGIA BUSINESS ALLIANCE$16,500
MYTH GASTROBAR$15,000
ALYNN SILLIMAN - TAPROOTS$15,000
PLAY LOUNGE & CAF$15,000
ADRIAN Y XIMENA CORP$15,000
SONNY'S BAR AND GRILL$15,000
NORTH TEXAS LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
PLAYBILL ONLINE$15,000
PANF LLC$15,000
GSBA$10,000
BLUE PAN PIZZA$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 (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 its 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
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

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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
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

  • 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 -22%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Com; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 232 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ImprovementASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDISABILITYIN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER FORT LAUDERDALE GAY AND LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCAROLINAS LGBT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22,500 over 2y, 3.5% 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 budgetWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRainbow Chamber of Commerce: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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
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.

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.

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

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 National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 232 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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