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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $635,785 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,065,691 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $429,906 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 · FY2023
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gender & Sexualities Alliance | $265,385 |
| The Level Up Project | $110,000 |
| Mex AmerLegDefenseEduFund | $77,400 |
| Refugee Health Alliance | $63,000 |
| International Comm Fdtn | $50,000 |
| Montana Human Rights Network | $30,000 |
| Intransitive | $10,000 |
| Equality North Carolina | $10,000 |
| Equality Texas Foundation | $10,000 |
| Metro Trans Umbrella Group | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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
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.
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 +6% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535k 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
- GSGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
- MMMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2021–2023 · $290k · revenue -21%
- RHREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $232k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- HAHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rightsone grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue -75%
- IIFWHENHOWone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -42%
- HBHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -2%
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.
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.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
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…
Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…
Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.
Working together as a community to empower Trans People of Color by meeting needs and increasing accessibility
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…
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.
We are a community-based, grassroots organization working to support the transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gender-nonconforming, and gender-ethnic minority communitiess, as well as their direct families, tribal relations, and kinship…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation and the most unlike its peers is Black Transwomen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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.
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 Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEVEL UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Intransitive TM Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Transformations Youth Group ↗
- Who funds OUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Third Space Foundation ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds CATALYST MONTANA ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas Foundation ↗
- Who funds Metro Trans Umbrella Group ↗
- Who funds BLACK TRANSWOMEN 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: 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
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 Transgender Law Center 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.
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.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.