Oregon · Nonprofit
EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE
EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,929,861 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,035,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Equality Federation Institute does
Mission
Equality Federation Institute 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.
Programs
Through our advocacy & civic engagement program, we work collaboratively with our partners to maximize state advocacy on critical issues, mobilize the people power needed to create change, and set an expansive policy agenda to address our entire community's needs. In 2025, we worked with our state partners to educate the public about 600+ anti-lgbtq+ bills introduced in state legislatures, the majority of which specifically targeted transgender people. Our team spent hundreds of hours providing state partners with one-on-one expert consultations. We provided targeted training to our partners on topics such as community organizing, communications, and fundraising.
$2,128,633 spentof which $13,750 as grants$5,500 earned by the program50% of program spendingOur public health policy program leverages lgbtq+ organizing power to influence state hiv and public health issues. We work with hiv organizations and people living with hiv to end criminalization, address needs, and advance efforts to end the epidemic while building the capacity of partners to be effective advocates and forge strong coalitions in their states. In 2025, our public health cohorts provided opportunities for our state partners to engage more deeply in a facet of public health in their state. (continued on schedule o).we also held public health & hiv trainings to help us collectively deepen our public health and hiv knowledge to meet the moment by covering hiv-related needs, effective narratives, and actions we can take to help build and grow our state-level public health infrastructure under the leadership and expertise of lgbtq+ communities living with hiv.
$1,228,946 spentof which $496,000 as grants$1,800 earned by the program29% of program spendingThrough our leadership & capacity strengthening program, we prioritize developing strong leaders, connecting movement advocates, and building powerful organizations that can sustain the movement for equality and justice in the states. Because of our ongoing relationships with state leaders, we are able to provide tailored support that meets their individual needs and follow them as their organizations grow. We believe that racial justice is a critical area for growth for many organizations and leaders, and we strive to integrate a racial equity perspective and strategy into all aspects of leadership and organizational development work. (continued on schedule o).we provide critical opportunities for training, peer learning, and networking through the annual Equality Federation Institute leadership conference, which has become the movement-wide go-to gathering of 350+ state leaders and national partners; our 1:1 coaching; and regular online training opportunities.
$892,673 spent$377,543 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,250,252.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.3M to $5.2M (+59%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Eric Paulk
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $484k → $2.9M.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $858k from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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 INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 56% · 2019 71% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 68% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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 INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Equality Federation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE: 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 INSTITUTE?
- EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,929,861 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,035,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $10,929,861 in grants to EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,035,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE 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 41 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