· Public charity
The Astraea Foundation Inc
The astraea lesbian foundation for justice, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,011,668 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,026,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,015,262 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $548k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE (SVA) | $90,000 |
| TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERING (TAKE) | $90,000 |
| HOUSE OF TULIP | $60,000 |
| SISTERREACH | $60,000 |
| HOLLER HEALTH JUSTICE | $55,000 |
| OPERATION RESTORATION | $50,000 |
| FREEDOM OKLAHOMA | $50,000 |
| WECARE TN | $45,000 |
| THE I AM HUMAN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE INC | $40,000 |
| ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC | $33,334 |
| FREEDOM TO THRIVE (COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR PEOPLE) | $30,000 |
| PALMETTO STATE ABORTION FUND | $30,000 |
| BLACK LGBTQIA MIGRANT PROJECT | $30,000 |
| LOUISIANA TRANS ADVOCATES | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $4.0M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Astraea Foundation Inc’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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +326%
- GSGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network5× · 2018–2023 · $692k · revenue +26%
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE6× · 2018–2025 · $527k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- TVTHE VAID GROUPone grant, 2019 · $154k
- LVLGBTQ Victory Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $127k · revenue +60%
- WIWILLIAMS INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $125k
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.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
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.
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,…
FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION (FTA) is an national reproductive justice organization that ORGANIZES COMMUNITIES who experience reproductive oppression TO BUILD POWER. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of colorAnd…
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil…
AMOR is an alliance of community based grassroots organizations mobilizing at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status to prevent, to respond to, and to end state violence against our community.
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…
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.
The Trans Women of Color Healing Project mission is to combat the erasure of Trans peoples' lives, narratives, and contributions to society. We speak truth to power and also uplift the stories that center TWOC people, our families, our…
Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…
Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trans Queer Pueblo - Semilla De Liberacion and the most unlike its peers is Mariposas Rebeldes Co. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 125 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 SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES AMPED ↗
- Who funds MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Communities United for People ↗
- Who funds SPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW ↗
- Who funds SISTERREACH ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOLD FUTURES NM ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Safe Haven Corp ↗
- Who funds BYP100 Education Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF TULIP ↗
- Who funds OUR SPOT KC ↗
- Who funds Wecaretn ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION ↗
- Who funds ZAMI NOBLA 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 · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Groundswell Fund · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Tides Center · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 The Astraea Foundation Inc 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.
- Baltimore Safe Haven Corp — 28% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% 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.