California · Nonprofit
GENDER HEALTH CENTER
GENDER HEALTH CENTER (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,333 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($460,880). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $576k
What Gender Health Center does
Mission
We are dedicated to ending the pantheonization of trans people and creating more equitable access to healthcare and healing resources through our programs, training, and direct services that prioritize the wellness and joy of queer, transgender, black, indigenous, people of color (qtbipoc).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health services:at the Gender Health Center, counseling services focus on queer-informed narrative therapy. This modality of therapy utilizes the power of peoples' personal stories. Community members are encouraged, through a respectful and cooperative relationship, to address the issues in their lives that exist amidst social, political, and cultural contexts. Gender Health Center offers individual, relational, family, and group counseling services delivered by a dedicated team of graduate student trainees, associate clinicians, and doctoral interns. As a mental health training program, Gender Health Center is committed to cultivating the next generation of counseling professionals who practice through a lens of healing-centered engagement, cultural humility, and liberation.
$437,695 spentof which $10,000 as grants$25,830 earned by the program46% of program spendingHealth care services:the Gender Health Center health care services department includes our bi-monthly hormone clinic, harm reduction program, hiv/sti testing, and upcoming electrolysis clinic. These services provide gender affirming care to trans, non-binary, and gender expansive community members at low barrier, no cost. Our hormone clinic, which also offers hiv/sti testing, is facilitated in collaboration with first year medical students. The harm reduction program includes syringe exchange, safer sex supplies, narcan distribution, and survival supplies. Our upcoming electrolysis clinic will include low cost, free gender affirming hair removal services.
$339,459 spent36% of program spendingCommunity support services:support services responds to the needs of community members by navigating access to gender-affirming care, assistance with changing name and gender on identity documents, screening to other ghc services such as mental health and hormone clinic, and facilitating referrals to various community resources. Additionally, css addresses social determinants of health through screening community members for potential barriers to services and maintaining a registered medical-legal partnership with legal services of northern california.
$157,120 spentof which $18,210 as grants17% of program spendingEducation & training:education & training to promote culturally responsive and affirming care working alongside trans, gender diverse, and intersex community members
$11,950 spent$1,900 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $946,224.
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 $409k to $768k (+88%).
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 80% · 2018 82% · 2019 24% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 49% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GENDER HEALTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Malakai Cote
Executive director as of 03/24
Board chair
Lily Weaver
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $87k → $232k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 HEALTH CENTER’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 HEALTH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
69% 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 HEALTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 54% · 2022 67% · 2023 48% — 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
35% of GENDER HEALTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
63% of GENDER HEALTH CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GENDER HEALTH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GENDER HEALTH CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HEALTH CENTER: 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 HEALTH CENTER?
- GENDER HEALTH CENTER (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,333 to it, the largest being NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ($460,880). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENDER HEALTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,106,333 in grants to GENDER HEALTH CENTER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENDER HEALTH CENTER?
- NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $460,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENDER HEALTH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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