How much did Translifeline grant in FY2023?

Translifeline reported 2 grants totaling $489,197 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

Translifeline

Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education.

$489k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$60k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of Translifeline’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

commissary bail

2021

name changechange micrograntscommissary bail

2022

until we'rewe're free

2023

migrants

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

Transgender Law Center$60,000
Ctr for Transformative Action$59,400

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$467k · 6 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +196% since the first grant, against +143% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$467k

$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+196%

+143%

Still filing today

83%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

Transgender Law Center
2× · 2022–2023 · $120k · revenue +196%
CF
Ctr for Transformative Action
2× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +17%
TW
Transcending Women
2× · 2021–2022 · $43k · revenue +44%

Funded once

CS
Cake Society Co
one grant, 2022 · $26k
S&
Social &Environmntl Entreprengraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +490%
FO
Freedom Overground Corp
one grant, 2022 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

National Trans Bar Association

Education

Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights

Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness

Civil Rights

The Transgender District

The mission of the Transgender District is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern Tenderloin neighborhood. Our vision is…

Civil Rights

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

Gays and Lesbians in a Transgender Society

Services&supportforthelgbtqia+population

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Lavender Rights Project

Lavender Rights Project (LRP) protects Black life by elevating the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black trans and gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We are fighting for the right to exist…

Crime & Legal

Transgender Film Center Ltd

To help trans creators bring finished films to audiences around the world.

Arts & Culture

Partnership to End Aids Status Inc

Maximize equlity in trans community

Education

Transgender Advocates for Justice and Accountability Tajas Coalition

The Transgender Advocates for Justice and Accountability (TAJA) Coalition has been organized to identify and fulfill the essential needs of transgender women of color through advocacy and service implementation. The TAJA Coalition…

Human Services

Trans Housing Coalition Inc

Support the trans and gender-nonconforming community in greater atlanta.

Housing & Shelter

Global Action for Trans Equality Inc

Gate is an international advocacy organization committed to promoting justice and equality for trans and gender diverse communities.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Translatin Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Dave Purchase Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

13/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$392,195Civil Rights$161,000Human Services$118,067Youth Development$36,500Health$34,250Recreation & Sports$26,000Environment$25,134

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.

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.

Borealis PhilanthropyMN28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Groundswell Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · The Astraea Foundation Inc · AIDS United · Southern Vision Alliance · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidago 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 organisation Translifeline 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.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Transformations Youth Group.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832753730 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Transformations Youth Group, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Translifeline?

Find your warmest path to Translifeline through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Translifeline

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Translifeline?

More from the funding graph

Translifeline

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Translifeline?

More from the funding graph