Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED
GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,479,992 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($489,467). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $603k
What Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated does
Mission
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated (gsafe) creates just schools for lgbtq+ youth in wisconsin. We do this by: developing the leadership of lgbtq+ youth; supporting gay-straight alliances; training educators; advancing educational justice; and deepening racial, gender, trans, and social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Leadership development-gsafe works to develop the leadership of k-12 students and their adult allies to create schools where lgbtq+ youth are safe, affirmed, and able to thrive. Utilizing an intersectional lens that incorporates both racial justice and transgender justice, gsafe develops the leadership of lgbtq+ youth through a foundations of leadership course, a summer leadership training institute camp, a youth leadership board, day-long and regional conferences for middle school and high school students, support to student-led clubs, and ongoing professional development and consultation with and for educators and school leaders across wisconsin.
$663,793 spent$45,275 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $663,793.
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 $332k to $500k (+51%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 12% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 14% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% · 2024 24% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Tyrone Creech Jr
Executive director
Board chair
Jeremy Pagel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $71k → $160k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED’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
GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
85% 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 GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 59% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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
56% of GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
93% of GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED?
- GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,479,992 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ($489,467). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,479,992 in grants to GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED?
- COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $489,467 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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