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California · Public charity

Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline

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. Our vision is to fight the epidemic of trans suicide and improve overall life-outcomes of trans people by…

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$44k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$22,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$8.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$44k100%
FY20232$119k0%
FY20229$311k67%
FY202112$277k92%
FY20204$62k100%
FY20191$18k100%
FY20181$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Civil Rights$323kHealth$196kHuman Services$120kCrime & Legal$46kYouth Development$37kRecreation & Sports$26kEnvironment$25kEducation$21k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NM
TN
LA
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
FOLX Health Inc$173,8612n/a
Transgender Law Center$120,00020%
Center for Transformative Action$70,20022%
Operation Restoration$42,75020%
Transformations Youth Group$36,500216%
Cake Society Co$26,0001n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$25,13410%
Freedom Overground Corp$25,0001n/a
The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico$23,50021%
Trans Queer Pueblo - Semilla de Liberacion$22,0001n/a
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
FOLX Health Inc$173,8612n/a
Transgender Law Center$120,00020%
Center for Transformative Action$70,20022%
Operation Restoration$42,75020%
Transformations Youth Group$36,500216%
Cake Society Co$26,0001n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$25,13410%
Freedom Overground Corp$25,0001n/a
The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico$23,50021%
Trans Queer Pueblo - Semilla de Liberacion$22,0001n/a
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc$22,0001n/a
Dave Purchase Project$21,75010%
Transforming$21,7501n/a
My Sistahs House$21,7501n/a
Sisterreach$21,00011%
The Translatin Coalition$21,00010%
Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP$20,00011%
Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering$20,0001n/a
Metro Trans Umbrella Group$20,00015%
Gallery Aferro$18,00016%
Transformative Justice Law Project$16,0001n/a
Trans United$12,8171n/a
Louisiana Trans Advocates Foundation$12,5001n/a
Rainbow Defense Fund Inc$11,81719%
Emergency Release Fund$11,81710%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTransgender Law Center: $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Transformative Action: $70,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOperation Restoration: $42,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTransformations Youth Group: $36,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $25,134 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico: $23,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDave Purchase Project: $21,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSisterreach: $21,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Translatin Coalition: $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMiss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMetro Trans Umbrella Group: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGallery Aferro: $18,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRainbow Defense Fund Inc: $11,817 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetEmergency Release Fund: $11,817 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Borealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationGroundswell FundProteus Fund IncThe Astraea Foundatio…AIDS UnitedMs Foundation for Wom…Rockefeller Philanthr…Southern Vision Allia…NEO Philanthropy IncSolidago Foundation
Borealis PhilanthropyMN29.6× affinity12 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 · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Southern Vision Alliance · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidago 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.

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About Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline

How much does Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline give?
Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline reported 2 itemized grants totaling $44,000, out of $106,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Health (25%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: FOLX Health Inc ($174k), Transgender Law Center ($120k), Center for Transformative Action ($70k).
Does Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Borealis Philanthropy, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline based?
Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline is based in CA.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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