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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.

$489k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $119,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $489,197 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $369,797 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.

$60,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Transgender Law Center$60,000
Ctr for Transformative Action$59,400
02The need
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Rainbow Defense Fund Inc: $12k → 15%TransGenderVariantIntersex JP: $20k → 10%Transgender Resource Ctr NM: $17k → 14%TAKE Birmingham: $20k → 16%Transcending Women: $22k → 23%Trans Resource Ctr New Mexico: $7k → 14%Operation Restoration: $21k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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

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.

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

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$467k
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+47%

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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +43%
  • OR
    OPERATION RESTORATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $43k · revenue +39%
  • TY
    Transformations Youth Group
    2× · 2021–2022 · $37k · revenue +678%

Funded once

  • CS
    CAKE SOCIETY CO
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +156%
  • 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.

1
National Trans Bar Association
Education
2
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
3
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
4
Trans Women of Color Healing Project

The Trans Women of Color Healing Project mission is to combat the erasure of Trans peoples' lives, narratives, and contributions to society. We speak truth to power and also uplift the stories that center TWOC people, our families, our…

Human Services
5
Transgender Film Center Ltd

To empower, promote, mentor and connect members of the American and global LGBTQIA communites, and especially members of those communities who identify as transgender, who are active in the film, television, content and media production…

Arts & Culture
6
Trans Family Charity Foundation
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7
Global Transgender Safety Task Force Usa Inc

Promote safety and education for transgender people in the usa and around the world

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Lets Get Free- the Women & Trans

We are a group working to end Death by Incarceration also known as life without parole sentencing, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly…

Public Benefit
10
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund

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
11
Los Angeles Gender Center

We manage a network of therapists specializing in gender, gender identity, and gender dysphoria.

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12
Trans Housing Coalition Inc

The corporation helps atlanta's chronically homeless transgender and gender non-conforming people move from the streets into long-term housing and on to the lives they want to lead.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico 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.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOLX Health Inc — $173,861 · OtherFOLX Health IncCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION — $70,200 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONFreedom Overground Corp — $25,000 · OtherFreedom Overground CorpTRANSFORMING — $21,750 · OtherTRANSFORMINGMy Sistahs House — $21,750 · OtherMy Sistahs HouseGALLERY AFERRO — $18,000 · OtherTransformative Justice Law Project — $16,000 · OtherSISTERREACH — $21,000 · OtherSISTERREACH+2 more — $24,634 · Other+2 moreTransgender Law Center — $120,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law CenterTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION — $21,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN COALITIO…Metro Trans Umbrella Group — $20,000 · Civil RightsMetro Trans Umbrella Gr…OPERATION RESTORATION — $42,750 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTOR…THE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO — $23,500 · Human ServicesTHE TRANSGENDER …Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering — $20,000 · Human ServicesTransgender Advo…Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP — $20,000 · Human ServicesMiss Major and A…RAINBOW DEFENSE FUND INC — $11,817 · Human ServicesRAINBOW DEFENSE …Transformations Youth Group — $36,500 · Youth DevelopmentDAVE PURCHASE PROJECT — $21,750 · HealthLouisiana Trans Advocates Foundation — $12,500 · HealthCAKE SOCIETY CO — $26,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $25,134 · Environment
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 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

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 Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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