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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.

$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192024.

Human Services$547kCivil Rights$406kHealth$205kYouth Development$110kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$221k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$109,952
Median grant
3
States reached
$523k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Capital Tea Inc$145,000
Individual grant recipient$109,952
PriSm United$90,000
The Queer Trans Project$80,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Thrive Youth Center: $25k → 16%PriSm United: $90k → 19%Our Spot KC: $71k → 15%OUTMemphis: $75k → 17%Encircle Family Youth Resourc: $47k → 8%Transformation Project: $158k → 9%The Queer Trans Project: $80k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Queer Works

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.

Health
2
The Alliance for Lgbtq Youth Inc

The Alliance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth provides mental health and care coordination services, leadership development, and policy advocacy that centers the lives and experiences of LGBTQ youth in…

Human Services
3
Youth Pride Inc

Youth pride, inc.'s mission is to meet the unique, ongoing needs of lgbtq+ youth and young adults.

Health
4
Out Youth Inc

Out Youth promotes the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social well being of sexual and gender minority youth so that they can openly and safely explore and affirm their identities.

Youth Development
5
Compass Inc

Compass' mission is to engage, empower and enrich the lives of lgbtq people and those impacted by hiv/aids.

Health
6
Queer Asterisk

Queer Asterisk empowers and nurtures the diverse ways of being that LGBTQ people embody by providing accessible counseling, education and community programs that uplift LGBTQ lives

Health
7
Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgend Community Center of Colorado

To engage, empower, enrich, and advance the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community of colorado.

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Proud Haven Inc

Our mission is to provide a safe shelter and resources for LGBTQIA youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. We also provide resources and support to all members of the LGBTQIA population.

Arts & Culture
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Oasis Youth Center

Oasis Youth Center is the sole queer cultural center supporting LGBTQ+ youth in Pierce County Washington. Oasiss purpose transcends survival aiming to cultivate accessible pathways for authentic thriving. This guiding principle translates…

Youth Development
10
WeTHRIVE Inc

Providing assistance to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

Youth Development
11
Outfront Minnesota Community Services

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…

12
Time Out Youth Inc

To offer support, advocacy, and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (lgbtq) youth ages 13-24.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Also for Gay Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRANSFORMATION PROJECT INC — $158,048 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATION PROJECT INCPrism United — $90,000 · Human ServicesPrism UnitedThe Queer Trans Project Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesThe Queer Trans Project IncOUTMEMPHIS — $75,000 · Human ServicesOUTMEMPHISOUR SPOT KC — $71,258 · Human ServicesOUR SPOT KCEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center — $47,405 · Human ServicesEncircle Family and Youth Resource CenterTHRIVE YOUTH CENTER INC — $25,019 · Human ServicesALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC — $110,761 · Civil RightsALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INCJACKSONVILLE AREA SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH NETWORK INC — $104,000 · Civil RightsJACKSONVILLE AREA SEXUAL MINOR…Choosing Our Roots — $70,000 · Civil RightsChoosing Our RootsWE ARE FAMILY — $48,000 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMILYIN OUR OWN VOICES INC — $43,257 · Civil RightsIN OUR OWN VOICES INC1N10 INC — $30,000 · Civil Rights1N10 INCIndividual grant recipient — $109,952 · OtherIndividual grant…Rainbow Book Club — $71,313 · OtherRainbow Book Clu…Mississippi Safe Schools — $35,000 · OtherMississippi Safe…+1 more — $5,017 · OtherCAPITAL TEA INC — $145,000 · HealthCAPITAL TEA INCCOASTAL BEND WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthCOASTAL BEND WE…ZEBRA YOUTH INC — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUTH ELLIS CENTER — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$546,730Civil Rights$406,018Other$221,282Health$205,000Youth Development$110,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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.

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

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 wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT 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.

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no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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