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EQUALITY FORUM INC

EQUALITY FORUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,064 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($183,059). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$112k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$443k
Net assets
$32k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Equality Forum Inc does

Mission

Equality forum is a national and international lgbt civil rights organization with an educational focus

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lgbt history month: celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender icons. Each day in october, a new lgbt icon is featured with a video, bio, biography, downloadable images and other resources. Gay and lesbian history month was endorsed by glaad, the human rights campaign, the national gay and lesbian task force, the national education association and other national organizations. In 2006 equality forum assumed responsibility for providing content, promotion and resoruces for lgbt history month. The month is capped with a brunch that celebrates organizational achievements. In 2022, equality forum organized and presented the national 50th anniversary john fryer celebration.

    $257,438 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $257,438.

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 ($144k) Expenses 100 ($153k) Net assets 100 ($110k)2018 Revenue 116 ($168k) Expenses 151 ($232k) Net assets 42 ($46k)2019 Revenue 52 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets -30 ($-32429)2020 Revenue 153 ($221k) Expenses 101 ($155k) Net assets 31 ($33k)2021 Revenue 180 ($260k) Expenses 67 ($102k) Net assets 174 ($191k)2022 Revenue 51 ($73k) Expenses 85 ($130k) Net assets 123 ($135k)2023 Revenue 50 ($72k) Expenses 38 ($59k) Net assets 135 ($148k)2024 Revenue 53 ($77k) Expenses 74 ($114k) Net assets -33 ($-35983)2025 Revenue 202 ($292k) Expenses 48 ($73k) Net assets 167 ($183k)2026 Revenue 77 ($112k) Expenses 171 ($263k) Net assets 29 ($32k)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (171)Net assets (29)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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $188k (+2827%).

$236k
$163k
$117k
$64k
$191k
$165k
$159k
$6k
$188k
$32k
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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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of EQUALITY FORUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,206 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
−$63k
’18
−$79k
’19
$66k
’20
$158k
’21
−$56k
’22
$13k
’23
−$37k
’24
$219k
’25
−$151k
’26
1.4
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.

Board chair

Keith Joseph

Chairman

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Listed1110810888888
Joined·+2+2+3+2+0+1+2+1+0
No longer listed·341401210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $20k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$10k
funders
1
3
2
3
2
2
3
1

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 FORUM 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

EQUALITY FORUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

81% 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 FORUM INC.

41%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of EQUALITY FORUM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $95k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

NY
PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $348k 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

EQUALITY FORUM INC's revenue fell 23% between 2017 and 2026.

Operating margin−135% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 697 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Government funding EQUALITY FORUM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150 on record.

State$150
Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$150

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like EQUALITY FORUM 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.

In Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 0%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds EQUALITY FORUM INC?
EQUALITY FORUM INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,064 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($183,059). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EQUALITY FORUM INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $443,064 in grants to EQUALITY FORUM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY FORUM INC?
NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $183,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUALITY FORUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 5 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