California · Nonprofit
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,190 to it, the largest being Horizons Foundation ($402,209). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $661k
What QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture does
Mission
Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal Sponsorship: Our fiscal sponsorship program supports emerging LGBTQA artists and community organizations with financial oversight and management.
$1,181,089 spent78% of program spendingThe National Queer Arts Festival is an annual multidisciplinary arts festival that typically features 20-30 individual events. Creating Queer Communities is a professional development training program for queer and trans artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. For over 25 years, Creating Queer Communities has been an incredibly successful program that gives artists an opportunity to build their knowledge base around their artistic practice by providing small grants, free educational opportunities and mentorship.
$335,249 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,516,338.
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 $453k to $1.3M (+179%).
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 46% · 2018 53% · 2019 61% · 2020 71% · 2021 76% · 2022 58% · 2023 72% · 2024 57% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Anand Kaira -End 12112024
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $91k → $131k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture’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
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
60% 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 QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 92% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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
33% of QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
84% of QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $522k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$300k
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 QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture: 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 QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture?
- QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,190 to it, the largest being Horizons Foundation ($402,209). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,451,190 in grants to QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture?
- Horizons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $402,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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