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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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $44,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,000 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.
$22,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LGBT Center Intercultural Inc$22,000
Trans Queer Pueblo$22,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%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
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

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 6 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • 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
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
National Trans Bar Association
Education
2
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
3
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
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
Translatina Network Inc

The mission of translatina network is to gain equal and lasting rights for all latina transgender women at a local, state and federal level. through the effective social mobilization of our community, we will have direct involvement in…

Community Improvement
6
Transformation Project Inc

To support and empower transgender individuals & their families while educating communities about gender identity & expression.

Human Services
7
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
8
Trans Family Charity Foundation
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9
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
10
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
11
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trans Queer Pueblo - Semilla De Liberacion; 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

19 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. 19 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CenterTRANS QUEER PUEBLO - SEMILLA DE LIBERACION: $22,000 · Civil RightsTRANS QUEER PUEBLO - SEMILL…LGBT CENTER INTERCULTURAL COLLECTIVE INC: $22,000 · Civil RightsLGBT CENTER INTERCULTURAL C…THE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $21,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN COALITIONMetro Trans Umbrella Group: $20,000 · Civil RightsMetro Trans Umbrella GroupOPERATION RESTORATION: $42,750 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTO…THE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $23,500 · Human ServicesTHE TRANSGENDER…Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP: $20,000 · Human ServicesMiss Major and …Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $20,000 · Human ServicesTransgender Adv…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$205,000Human Services$118,067Youth Development$36,500Health$34,250Recreation & Sports$26,000Environment$25,134

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

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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.

    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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