California · Public charity
Transgender Law Center
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2023
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Transgender Law Center’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Transgender Law Center named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $636k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2023
- $636k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $265,385
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 6
- Total assets, FY2023
- $38M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Transgender Law Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 9 | $586k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $392k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $383k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $125k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $114k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $97k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network | $1,276,324 | 8 | 6% |
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $290,400 | 3 | 2% |
| Equality Federation | $255,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Refugee Health Alliance | $232,000 | 4 | 10% |
| The Level Up Project | $180,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Intransitive TM Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Third Space Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 4% |
| One Colorado Education Fund | $70,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Transformations Youth Group | $70,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Outfront Minnesota Community Services | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network | $1,276,324 | 8 | 6% |
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $290,400 | 3 | 2% |
| Equality Federation | $255,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Refugee Health Alliance | $232,000 | 4 | 10% |
| The Level Up Project | $180,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Intransitive TM Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Third Space Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 4% |
| One Colorado Education Fund | $70,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Transformations Youth Group | $70,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Outfront Minnesota Community Services | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights | $43,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catalyst Montana | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Haitian Bridge Alliance | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ifwhenhow | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metro Trans Umbrella Group | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| EQTX Equality Texas Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Equality Nc Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Transwomen Inc | $5,263 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Transgender Law Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Gill Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Equality Federation Institute · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
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About Transgender Law Center
- How much does Transgender Law Center give?
- Transgender Law Center reported 10 itemized grants totaling $635,785, out of $1,065,691 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Transgender Law Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (51%), Philanthropy (40%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Transgender Law Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network ($1.3M), Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ($290k), Equality Federation ($255k).
- Does Transgender Law Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Transgender Law Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
- Where is Transgender Law Center based?
- Transgender Law Center is based in CA.
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