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Trevor Project Inc

The mission of the trevor project is to end suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning young people.

$153k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$35k
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, FY2020 to 2023.

Civil Rights$413kHealth$131kEducation$43kArts & Culture$10kReligion$8k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $117,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $152,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUALITY MICHIGAN$35,000
OUTFRONT MINNESOTA$25,000
EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND$15,000
TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS$10,000
EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION$10,000
FAIRNESS KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND$7,500
THE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,500
FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%1N10 INC: $5k → 11%OUTNEBRASKA - OUTLINC INC: $10k → 13%OUTFRONT MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OUTFRONT MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%BRADBURY-SULLIVAN CENTER: $8k → 11%TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS: $10k → 8%EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%OKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY: $5k → 15%ONE IOWA: $5k → 10%EQUALITY MICHIGAN: $10k → 21%EQUALITY KANSAS (THE CENTER OF WICHITA): $10k → 16%FAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $5k → 10%EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%THE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA: $15k → 14%EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 15%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 18%FAIRNESS KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 15%OUTNEBRASKA - OUTLINC INC: $8k → 13%EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION GRANT: $10k → 10%EQUALITY MICHIGAN: $8k → 21%EQUALITY KANSAS (THE CENTER OF WICHITA): $10k → 16%EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA: $10k → 14%EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 15%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE: $8k → 18%FAIRNESS KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 15%OUTNEBRASKA - OUTLINC INC: $5k → 13%EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA: $10k → 14%EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE: $5k → 18%FAIRNESS KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 15%EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%FAIRNESS KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 15%TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS: $10k → 10%TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%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

ND
MN
WI
MI
OR
IA
OH
PA
NE
KY
WV
AZ
KS
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$558k · 17 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$558k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
-6%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • EF
    EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +61%
  • EM
    EQUALITY MICHIGAN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +169%
  • EO
    Equality Ohio Education Fund
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • BL
    BRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -6%
  • FO
    Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • IS
    IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -20%
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
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
2
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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3
Freedom Oklahoma Action Fund

To advance LGBTQ equality in OK

Civil Rights
4
EqualityMaine Foundation

EqualityMaine Foundation works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through community building, education, engagement, and…

Human Services
5
EqualityMaine

EqualityMaine works to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education,…

Civil Rights
6
Equality Federation

Equality federation 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
7
Lgbtq Victory Institute Inc

LGBTQ Victory Institute works to achieve and sustain equality through leadership development, trainings, research and convenings. We work around the globe to increase the number, expand the diversity, and ensure the success of out LGBTQ+…

Civil Rights
8
Equality Hi

Equality HI's Mission envisions a thriving and empowering culture that proactively engages in creating an inclusive and diverse queer community through aloha, leadership, resources, services and education.

Human Services
9
Equality Illinois

Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.

Philanthropy
10
Outfront Minnesota

Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Equality Legal Action Fund

We are a group of volunteer attorneys and advocates who are dedicated to fighting extremism and disinformation against educators, public officials, election officials, and members of the lgbtq community. no nebraskan deserves to be the…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Wisconsin Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is One Iowa. 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

24 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. 24 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTEEQUALITY MICHIGAN: $52,500 · Civil RightsEQUALITY MICHIGANEquality Ohio Education Fund: $50,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education FundEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $45,000 · Civil RightsEQTX Equality Texas FoundationEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INCCampaign For Southern Equality: $35,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern EqualityEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INCCENTERLINK INC: $23,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINK INCFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INCFAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COM…TRANSGENDER EDUCATION NETWORK OF TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherTRANSGENDER EDUCATION …CENTER OF WICHITA INC: $20,000 · OtherCENTER OF WICHITA INCEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEQUALITY NC FOUNDATIONBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,500 · OtherBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT…Equality Arizona Foundation: $5,000 · OtherOKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY INC: $5,000 · OtherFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $37,500 · EducationIOWA SAFE SCHOOLS: $5,000 · EducationOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $7,500 · ReligionFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd: $5,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$408,000Other$117,500Education$42,500Arts & Culture$22,500Religion$7,500Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEQUALITY MICHIGAN: $52,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetEQTX Equality Texas Foundation: $45,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $37,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCENTERLINK INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA: $22,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFAIR WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIOWA SAFE SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEquality Arizona Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget1N10 INC: $5,000 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.

Tides FoundationEquality Federation I…Gill FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Amalgamated Charitabl…Evelyn and Walter Haa…All Hands on Deck Net…Freedom for All Ameri…Arcus FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Human Rights Campaign…The Elizabeth Taylor …
Tides FoundationCA32.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Equality Federation Institute · Gill Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Freedom for All Americans Education Fund · Arcus Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Human Rights Campaign Foundation · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS 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 Trevor Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trevor Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Centerlink Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) 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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The camps
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