· Private foundation
The Calamus Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $159,459 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LONGHOUSE RESERVE | $25,000 |
| AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $20,000 |
| PRIDELINES | $15,000 |
| LGBT NETWORK | $15,000 |
| HAMPTONS PRIDE | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYSGMH | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE PRIDE | $10,000 |
| CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| MAKING GAY HISTORY | $5,000 |
| STONEWALL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $560k · revenue +138%- GMGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC3× · 2018–2021 · $450k · revenue +36%
- LALesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $433k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HWHOUSING WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $99k · revenue +153%
RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +175%- NYNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -33%
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.
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.
Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people
Lambda legal defense and education fund, inc. is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and anyone living with hiv through impact litigation,…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
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 LGBTAP is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gener identity and/or HIV…
Glma is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq) and all sexual and gender minority (sgm) individuals, and equality for lgbtq/sgm health professionals in their work…
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…
Founded forty years ago, glaad is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ("lgbtq") media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and issues across all…
To contribute to the visibility and inclusion of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (sogiesc) communities. to connect, grow, and support pride platforms and networks globally. to assist…
Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…
Lgbtq social services
Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Making Gay History Inc ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Pierce County Aids Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Center ↗
- Who funds Oasis Youth Center ↗
- Who funds PRIDELINES YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Center ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
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: Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Stonewall Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Dearie Family Charitable Trust · The Pride Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Calamus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Calamus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Berkshire Pride Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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