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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

1
’17
1
’18
1
’19
2
’20
5
’21
4
’22
9
’23
9
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$205kEducation$70kYouth Development$70kInternational$43k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $635,785, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,065,691 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $429,906 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 Texas Foundation$10,000
Metro Trans Umbrella Group$10,000
Equality North Carolina$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Level Up Project: $110k → 16%The Level Up Project: $70k → 16%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
OR
CA
CO
MO
AR
NC
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 5 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$2.1M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
  • MM
    MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2021–2023 · $290k · revenue -21%
  • RH
    REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $232k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • HA
    Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights
    one grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue -75%
  • HB
    HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • I
    IFWHENHOW
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -42%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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.

Civil Rights
2
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
3
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

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.

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4
National Trans Bar Association
Education
5
Forward Together

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…

Health
6
Advocates for Trans Equality

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…

Civil Rights
7
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
8
Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering

Working together as a community to empower Trans People of Color by meeting needs and increasing accessibility

Human Services
9
Gender Justice League

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…

Civil Rights
10
Northwest Arkansas Equality Inc

Northwest Arkansas Equalitys mission is to provide programming, education and advocacy to serve, connect, and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Civil Rights
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

—
12
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Colorado Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network: $1,276,324 · Civil RightsGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA NetworkMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $290,400 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL…EQUALITY FEDERATION: $255,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FEDERATIONIntransitive TM Inc: $80,000 · Civil RightsONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $70,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $75,000 · Civil RightsAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,206,186 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $232,000 · PhilanthropyREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCEINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,263 · PhilanthropyTHE LEVEL UP PROJECT: $180,000 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 · OtherHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $43,000 · OtherEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherThird Space Foundation: $70,000 · EducationTransformations Youth Group: $70,000 · Youth Development
Civil Rights$2,046,724Philanthropy$1,673,449Human Services$205,000Other$123,000Education$70,000Youth Development$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network: $1,276,324 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,206,186 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $290,400 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION: $255,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $232,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEVEL UP PROJECT: $180,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetIntransitive TM Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetThird Space Foundation: $70,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetONE COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $70,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTransformations Youth Group: $70,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $43,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATALYST MONTANA: $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetro Trans Umbrella Group: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Wellspring Philanthro…Gill FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundEquality Federation I…Groundswell FundMs Foundation for Wom…Proteus Fund IncThe Ford Foundation
Tides FoundationCA29.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Transgender Law Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Transgender Law Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Transgender Law Center?

    Find your warmest path to Transgender Law Center through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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