South Carolina · Nonprofit
GENDER BENDERS
GENDER BENDERS (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,128 to it, the largest being AIDS UNITED ($197,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Gender Benders does
Mission
Advocate equality for transgender ind.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Provide education and resources
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $177k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 GENDER BENDERS’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
GENDER BENDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 GENDER BENDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 58% · 2019 52% · 2020 48% · 2021 22% · 2022 44% — 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 GENDER BENDERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 FY2022, 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
GENDER BENDERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k 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.
Organizations like GENDER BENDERS
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENDER BENDERS: 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 GENDER BENDERS?
- GENDER BENDERS (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,128 to it, the largest being AIDS UNITED ($197,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENDER BENDERS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $729,128 in grants to GENDER BENDERS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENDER BENDERS?
- AIDS UNITED is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENDER BENDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing