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The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT

wayOUT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization seeking to empower LGBTQ+ youth to feel safe being who they really are. With 5 local chapters and an aggressive growth plan, wayOUT will invest in over 19 at-need LGBTQ+ youth centers by 2023.

$425k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$109,952
Largest grant, FY2024
$145,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$523k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $441k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$425k100%
FY20236$441k100%
FY20223$143k100%
FY20214$163k100%
FY20194$336kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Youth Development$532kHuman Services$314kCivil Rights$292kHealth$205kEducation$35kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MI
NY
SD
CA
UT
MO
AZ
TN
SC
MS
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Transformation Project Inc$158,048126%
Capital Tea Inc$145,000171%
Also for Gay Youth Inc$110,761117%
Zebra Youth Inc$110,0001n/a
Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc$104,00014%
Prism United$90,000159%
The Queer Trans Project Inc$80,000166%
Outmemphis$75,00017%
Our Spot Kc$71,25813%
Choosing Our Roots$70,000114%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Transformation Project Inc$158,048126%
Capital Tea Inc$145,000171%
Also for Gay Youth Inc$110,761117%
Zebra Youth Inc$110,0001n/a
Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc$104,00014%
Prism United$90,000159%
The Queer Trans Project Inc$80,000166%
Outmemphis$75,00017%
Our Spot Kc$71,25813%
Choosing Our Roots$70,000114%
Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation Inc$60,00010%
We Are Family$48,00019%
Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center$47,40513%
In Our Own Voices Inc$43,25713%
Mississippi Safe Schools$35,0001n/a
1n10 Inc$30,00011%
Thrive Youth Center Inc$25,01911%
Ruth Ellis Center$20,00011%
Barrier Babes$5,0171n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($181k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTransformation Project Inc: $158,048 over 1y, 26% of budgetCapital Tea Inc: $145,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetAlso for Gay Youth Inc: $110,761 over 1y, 17% of budgetJacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc: $104,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPrism United: $90,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetThe Queer Trans Project Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetOutmemphis: $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetOur Spot Kc: $71,258 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetChoosing Our Roots: $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCoastal Bend Wellness Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWe Are Family: $48,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $47,405 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIn Our Own Voices Inc: $43,257 over 1y, 2.8% of budget1n10 Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThrive Youth Center Inc: $25,019 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRuth Ellis Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Centerlink IncFL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centerlink Inc · The Ally Coalition Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Pledgeling Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Together Rising · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Allstate Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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About The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT

How much does The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT give?
The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT reported 4 grants totaling $425,054 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Human Services (21%), Civil Rights (19%).
Who are The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Transformation Project Inc ($158k), Capital Tea Inc ($145k), Also for Gay Youth Inc ($111k).
Does The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centerlink Inc, The Ally Coalition Inc, Borealis Philanthropy.
Where is The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT based?
The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT is based in CA.

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 21 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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