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DIGNITY USA INC

DIGNITY USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,967 to it, the largest being THOMAS A PLEIN FOUNDATION LTD ($76,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$831k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$192k
Net assets
$862k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Dignity USA Inc does

Mission

Working for the respect and justice for all gay, lesbian, bisexual , transgender, queer, and intersex persons in the catholic church and in the world through education, advocacy, and support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Working for the respect and justice for all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons in the catholic church and in the world through education, advocacy, and support. The organization provides newsletters, pamphlets, publications, a website of information and related links, as well as involvement in local chapters to its members throughout the nation.

    $366,332 spent$733 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $366,332.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($451k) Expenses 100 ($464k) Net assets 100 ($315k)2018 Revenue 88 ($399k) Expenses 81 ($376k) Net assets 105 ($331k)2019 Revenue 128 ($578k) Expenses 108 ($499k) Net assets 130 ($410k)2020 Revenue 68 ($307k) Expenses 67 ($310k) Net assets 129 ($407k)2021 Revenue 91 ($411k) Expenses 69 ($321k) Net assets 158 ($498k)2022 Revenue 99 ($445k) Expenses 103 ($479k) Net assets 132 ($417k)2023 Revenue 69 ($312k) Expenses 92 ($427k) Net assets 164 ($518k)2024 Revenue 64 ($288k) Expenses 80 ($373k) Net assets 156 ($490k)2025 Revenue 184 ($831k) Expenses 103 ($479k) Net assets 273 ($862k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (103)Net assets (273)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $418k to $799k (+91%).

$345k
$369k
$426k
$418k
$799k
$616k
$532k
$507k
$880k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of DIGNITY USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$23k
’18
$79k
’19
−$3k
’20
$91k
’21
−$35k
’22
−$115k
’23
−$84k
’24
$352k
’25
10
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed121212111414131212
Joined·+4+1+4+4+3+4+5+0
No longer listed·41513560
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $58k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of DIGNITY USA INC’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

DIGNITY USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 76% · 2022 86% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of DIGNITY USA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

DIGNITY USA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

WI
MI
PA
NJ
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DIGNITY USA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DIGNITY USA INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 15%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DIGNITY USA INC?
DIGNITY USA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,967 to it, the largest being THOMAS A PLEIN FOUNDATION LTD ($76,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DIGNITY USA INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $191,967 in grants to DIGNITY USA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DIGNITY USA INC?
THOMAS A PLEIN FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DIGNITY USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing