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Stonewall Community Foundation
Partnering with donors and dynamic nonprofits, STONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION mobilizes resources to advance queer liberation. Stonewall's mission work includes organizational funding and capacity building, scholarships and microgrants, leadership development, and administration of donor-advised funds.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $897k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Stonewall Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $889k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $534k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $469k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $1.1M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $545k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $286k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $324k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $393k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor Project Inc | $228,168 | 1 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $191,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $173,654 | 6 | 0% |
| Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc | $165,500 | 8 | 0% |
| National Lgbtq Task Force | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Urban Justice Center | $144,879 | 6 | 0% |
| The Legal Aid Society | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Outright International | $120,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ya-Ya Network Inc | $115,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc | $106,500 | 8 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Stonewall Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 134 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Stonewall Community Foundation
- How much does Stonewall Community Foundation give?
- Stonewall Community Foundation reported 56 itemized grants totaling $896,848, out of $1,302,184 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Stonewall Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (24%), Health (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Stonewall Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trevor Project Inc ($228k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($192k), Ali Forney Center Inc ($174k).
- Does Stonewall Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stonewall Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Borealis Philanthropy, Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Stonewall Community Foundation based?
- Stonewall Community Foundation is based in NY.
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