Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES
CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Brinson Foundationshared funders
- Translifeline DBA Trans Lifelineportfolio match
- Heritage of Pride Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Brinson Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Translifeline DBA Trans Lifelineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heritage of Pride Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Destination Tomorrow Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loveloud Foundation % Tribeca Business Mgmtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allies in Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roaring Fork Gay & Lesbian Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian a McCarthy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gamma Mu Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Astraea Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centerlink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES?
- CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,500 in grants to CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES?
- The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSGENDER STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing