New York · Nonprofit
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,205,025 to it, the largest being BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ($2,124,154). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc does
Mission
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult services: behavioral health: the center is a new york state office of addiction services and supports (oasas) licensed, outpatient substance use treatment program specifically designed for the lgbtq+ community. The center offers a medically supervised, intensive program for substance use. It uses a client-centered and trauma-informed model which incorporates a range of holistic services for individuals and their families in the lgbtq+ community, ages 18 and older, including drop-in recovery support groups, along with narcan, fentanyl testing strips and xylazine testing strips. Through short-term mental health counseling, the center (via individual, couples, and family counseling) addresses a range of mental health concerns that impact our community, including coming out, hiv and aids prevention and education, living with hiv and aids, immigration, community trauma and more. The center's lift (lgbtq+ institute for family therapy) certification program teaches clinicians and other professionals the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to reduce rejecting behaviors of families struggling to accept their lgbtq+ children with the option of ce hours for clinicians. Case…
$5,862,287 spent$863,830 earned by the program40% of program spendingYouth services: center youth: is comprised of youth leadership, youth substance use prevention, & youth clubhouse services. Center youth provides a safe, inclusive and affirming environment to foster relationships, personal and professional skills and the evolutions of identity. Open to young people between the ages of 13-21, the program builds self-esteem and helps ready youth for various life stages. Services include peer leadership training, summer camp, discussion groups, college preparation, career and vocational guidance, mentoring, individual prevention counseling and activity groups, music & arts programming, and paid externships/internships. Center youth also leads a citywide coalition of youth providers and young people designed to support young people at the intersection of substance use and homelessness. The coalition conducts an annual needs assessment of the target population and makes policy recommendations at the city and state levels.
$8,339,383 spent$607,242 earned by the program57% of program spendingAdvocacy, government affairs and arts and culture: the advocacy and government affairs department advances equitable and affirming policies, protections and opportunities for all lgbtq people across new york state by leading mobilization efforts built on deep community engagement and strategic coalition building. The center leads a statewide advocacy initiative that seeks to create lasting change for the civil rights of the lgbtq community of new york state. As part of this initiative, the center supports the diverse intersections of our community to enforce, protect and advance lgbtq+ rights through proactive policy and legislative work and also by educating, empowering and mobilizing our community members via the provision of civic engagement tools and trainings that incubate and develop the emerging leaders and activists across new york state. The center is also a founding member and current administrator of the nys lgbt hhs network, a coalition of lgbtq+ non-profit organizations that provide holistic health care, education, legal and social services to lgbtq+ communities in new york. As administrator, the center works with network member and community members to increase…
$310,782 spent$32,192 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,512,452.
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 2020 to 2021, from $29M to $35M (+19%).
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 26% · 2018 30% · 2019 24% · 2020 24% · 2021 32% · 2022 42% · 2023 30% · 2024 35% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Carla Smith
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $723k → $3.5M.
36 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
71% 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 Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 48% · 2019 28% · 2020 13% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 24% — 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
48% of Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
53% of Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center 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 $8.9M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.6M
- Department of Justice$200k
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 Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: 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 Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc?
- Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,205,025 to it, the largest being BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ($2,124,154). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $19,205,025 in grants to Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc?
- BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,124,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 119 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