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NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,997,821 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($4,442,800). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What National Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights does
Mission
The national center for lgbtq rights (nclr) is a national legal organization dedicated to achieving full civil and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq) people and their families (continued on schedule o)through impact litigation, public policy work, direct legal services, and community and public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal: nclr responded rapidly to several discriminatory executive orders impacting the lgbtq community since the presidential inauguration in january of 2025. Nclr filed talbott v. United states on behalf of several plaintiffs challenging executive order 14183: prioritizing military excellence and readiness who are fighting to retain their employment in the armed services. Nclr also filed a complaint on behalf of three transgender women in doe v. Bondi, a challenge to a federal bureau of prisons policy which would override prison rape elimination act protections for vulnerable populations, including transgender women, and would terminate all medical care for gender dysphoria for incarcerated individuals. Both suits secured preliminary injunctions in our favor. (continued on schedule o)in additional to direct litigation, nclr submitted amicus briefs in shilling v. United states, a second challenge to executive order 14183, united states v. Skrmetti, a case challenging tennessee's law banning medical care for transgender youth and chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging colorado's current ban on the harmful practice of conversion therapy.
$2,642,461 spent$711,312 earned by the program61% of program spendingImmigration: nclr immigration project hogar {home} is a leader on lgbtq immigration issues, both working directly with immigrant clients and engaging around federal immigration policy. Our efforts on behalf of individual clients are both effective and help to build a solid body of case law, making it easier for other attorneys to successfully represent lgbtq immigration cases. We provide educational programming for community members serving immigrants and participate in legal clinics. In addition, we are part of a network of lgbtq immigrant organizations that communicate regularly to share strategies and stay updated on ongoing policy changes. Nclr remains committed to our clients (80-100 clients served annually) and the larger lgbtq immigrant community, (continued on schedule o)responding to 300-500 requests for lgbtq immigration related information each year. The current administration seeks to deport 3,000 people a day and a total of one million people per year. For the approximately 288,000 undocumented lgbtq immigrants living in this country, the threat of deportation is especially concerning. Many of our clients flee countries where being lgbtq is criminalized and sometimes…
$348,032 spent8% of program spendingBorn perfect: in march of 2025, the supreme court of the united states decided to take up a challenge to the tenth circuit's ruling upholding colorado's law prohibiting conversion therapy for minors. Nclr has been at the forefront of this case, alongside the state of colorado, organizing efforts to ensure that the court hears from a robust array of amicus curiae parties to underscore the critical role these laws play in protecting minors from dramatically increased risks of suicidality, depression and familial disruption this "therapy" causes. Nclr engaged in a public education campaign centered around the supreme court case to ensure that parents and policymakers also understand these harms, and emphasizing that 22 states and more than 150 cities have passed laws or ordinances banning (continued on schedule o)these practices for minors. The campaign developed and coordinated a messaging strategy across a coalition of movement partners that included earned media, social networking campaigns, and email communications to broaden support for banning the practice nationwide.
$296,742 spent7% of program spendingAll other programs
$1,071,452 spentof which $81,850 as grants$24,958 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,358,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $3.4M to $7.3M (+119%).
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: 2018 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 0% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Imani Rupert-Gordon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $2.9M.
34 of 104 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 47% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% — 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
46% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
50% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS'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 $13M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside California, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nclr Social Justice Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,997,821 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($4,442,800). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $25,997,821 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,442,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 104 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