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Stonewall Community Foundation
Partnering with donors and dynamic nonprofits, STONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION mobilizes resources to advance queer liberation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $896,848 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,302,184 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,336 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $776k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA | $40,000 |
| THE QUEER TRANS PROJECT | $40,000 |
| TRACTION PROJECT | $40,000 |
| OUT MY CLOSET | $40,000 |
| URBAN JUSTICE CENTER | $40,000 |
| SPLINTER ART AND COMMUNITY FUND | $40,000 |
| TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT | $40,000 |
| CHOSEN FAMILY LAW CENTER | $40,000 |
| MASHUP NASHVILLE | $40,000 |
| HEAT PROGRAM SUNY DOWNSTATE | $35,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND | $32,500 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC | $26,000 |
| THE QUEER BIG APPLE CORPS INC | $23,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $21,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Stonewall Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +102%- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $174k · revenue +161%
- LALesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +49%
Funded once
TREVOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $228k · revenue +64%- OIOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue -12%
- TDTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifelineone grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…
Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…
Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.
National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…
Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and…
The national black justice coalition (nbjc) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq+) and same-gender loving (sgl) people, including people living with…
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…
Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigration Equality and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 161 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YA-YA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HOLLAND/ZEELAND AREA INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OUT MY CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER INTERCULTURAL COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEER BIG APPLE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds GOTHAM PERFORMING ARTS INC DBA Empire City Men's Chorus ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Queer Trans Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MASHUP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN FAMILY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Splinter Art and Community Fund ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PROSPER ↗
- Who funds TRANSLATINA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Arcus Foundation · Groundswell Fund · The New York Community Trust · Ms Foundation for Women Inc
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 Stonewall Community Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Venice Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
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.