Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LOG CABIN INSTITUTE
LOG CABIN INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,723 to it, the largest being THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $912k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $270k
What Log Cabin Institute does
Mission
The Log Cabin Institute (formerly the liberty education forum), a district of columbia not-for-profit corporation was incorporated on november 7, 1994 to educate the american public concerning the gay and lesbian community. The Log Cabin Institute studies and researches the policy issues in the public and private sectors to improve and strengthen the understanding of the social needs for the gay and lesbian community. The Log Cabin Institute is a non-partisan educational think-tank based in washington, dc. Log Cabin Institute uses the power of ideas to educate people about the importance of achieving freedom and fairness for all americans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. The organization conducts educational programs, grassroots training, and research on a variety of key issues impacting the lgbt population. Log Cabin Institute puts special emphasis on programs and education that help gain new allies for equality among conservatives and people of faith.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education & advocacy the Log Cabin Institute operates a speakers bureau featuring individuals who educate conservatives and people of faith on issues of equality through personal appearances, speeches, and media engagement. We also operate a scholars bureau whose credentialed members discuss the facts behind the science of sexual orientation and against so-called "ex-gay" therapy. The Log Cabin Institute uses our website and social media as a news aggregator for issues relevant to our mission and the constituencies we seek to reach.
$145,162 spent78% of program spendingOutspoken outspoken middle east is our flagship international human rights advocacy and messaging campaign. We work with writers and creators overseas in nations that outlaw freedoms for the lgbt community, to tell their story to the outside world in the hope that international awareness will lead to policy change in their own countries. This program funds writers as well as the technology needed to collect their stories and broadcast them abroad.
$40,669 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,831.
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 2017 to 2018, from $186k to $16k (−91%).
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.
144% of LOG CABIN INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Board chair
Shane Shannon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 LOG CABIN INSTITUTE’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
LOG CABIN INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 LOG CABIN INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 70% — 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
25% of LOG CABIN INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
LOG CABIN INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LOG CABIN INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOG CABIN INSTITUTE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 LOG CABIN INSTITUTE: 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 LOG CABIN INSTITUTE?
- LOG CABIN INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,723 to it, the largest being THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOG CABIN INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $299,723 in grants to LOG CABIN INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOG CABIN INSTITUTE?
- THE STORY GARSCHINA FOUNDATION CO KENNETH GARSCHINA is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOG CABIN INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 8 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