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EQUALITY FEDERATION

EQUALITY FEDERATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,402,506 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$334k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$1.1M
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Equality Federation does

Mission

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.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Equality Federation is an advocacy accelerator, rooted in social justice, building power in our network of 50+ state-based lgbtq+ advocacy organizations. Collectively, our state partner network mobilizes more than 2 million supporters across the country to advance equality and justice for lgbtq+ people in the communities they call home. Equality Federation uses technology combined with our policy expertise to monitor important state legislation. In 2025, Equality Federation tracked lgbtq+-related legislation in the states so we could provide advocates on the ground with the strategy, organizing, messaging, communications, and policy resources they needed. During 2025, advocates successfully defeated or neutralized roughly 90% of the anti-lgbtq+ bills Equality Federation tracked.

    $532,086 spentof which $172,000 as grants$3,240 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $532,086.

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 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2018 Revenue 95 ($97k) Expenses 87 ($88k) Net assets 106 ($152k)2019 Revenue 98 ($100k) Expenses 86 ($87k) Net assets 114 ($164k)2020 Revenue 145 ($147k) Expenses 115 ($117k) Net assets 136 ($195k)2021 Revenue 696 ($708k) Expenses 380 ($385k) Net assets 360 ($518k)2022 Revenue 557 ($567k) Expenses 638 ($646k) Net assets 284 ($408k)2023 Revenue 1874 ($1.9M) Expenses 336 ($340k) Net assets 1377 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 804 ($818k) Expenses 1220 ($1.2M) Net assets 1087 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 329 ($334k) Expenses 750 ($760k) Net assets 794 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (329)Expenses (750)Net assets (794)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 2022 to 2023, from $424k to $2.0M (+371%).

$150k
$158k
$172k
$200k
$528k
$424k
$2.0M
$1.6M
$1.2M
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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

91% of EQUALITY FEDERATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,984 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$477
’17
$8k
’18
$12k
’19
$31k
’20
$323k
’21
−$79k
’22
$1.6M
’23
−$417k
’24
−$425k
’25
15
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.

Chief executive

Fran Hutchins

Executive director

Board chair

Gia Drew

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed131012131316162221
Joined·+1+4+3+3+5+4+8+2
No longer listed·42232423
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $778k.

Funder
'19
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$75k
$58k
Pflagunclassified
$7k
funders
1
3
1
6
5

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 EQUALITY FEDERATION’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

EQUALITY FEDERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EQUALITY FEDERATION.

62%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — 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

50% of EQUALITY FEDERATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% 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

EQUALITY FEDERATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
DC

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

’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

EQUALITY FEDERATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−127% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like EQUALITY FEDERATION

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.

In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 24%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 34 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Equality Federation Institute · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUALITY FEDERATION: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EQUALITY FEDERATION?
EQUALITY FEDERATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,402,506 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($1,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EQUALITY FEDERATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,402,506 in grants to EQUALITY FEDERATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY FEDERATION?
OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUALITY FEDERATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing