Minnesota · Nonprofit
RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE
RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,000 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $0
What Rainbow Health Initiative does
Mission
Rainbow health is committed to improving the health and wellness of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lbgtq) community through research, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Blue cross-blue shield center for prevention funds Rainbow Health Initiative's equity in action program. This grant supports the bulk of rhi's advocacy work and provides some support for the voices of health survey and rhi's education program. Rainbow Health Initiative publishes the voices of health data report and uses the data to support our advocacy work to advance policies with businesses, organizations and events that support healthy eating, active living and tobacco free spaces and events. Rhi also advocates for the inclusion of lgbtq data in public health programs and the expansion of data collection to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Rhi's education programs provide cultural competency trainings on lgbtq health issues and data for health care providers, organizations serving members of the lgbtq community, educators, and school systems. Our on-line provider directory helps individuals find culturally competent health care providers. Rhi's advocacy work includes the facilitation of the lgbtq health advocacy roundtable which brings together both lgbtq organizations and legislative support staff to discuss and advocate for policy changes to support lgbtq…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $6k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE’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
RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 83% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE: 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 RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE?
- RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,000 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $132,000 in grants to RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE?
- BCBSM Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAINBOW HEALTH INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 5 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