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RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT

RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$56k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$79k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Rainbow History Project does

Mission

Rainbow History Projects mission is to collect preserve and promote the history and culture of the diverse LGBTQ communities in metropolitan Washington D.C.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Participation representation and exhibition at Capital Pride Trans Pride DC Black Pride Adams Morgan Day and the DC State Fair

    $4,459 spent
    15% of program spending

  2. Development of World Pride 2025 exhibition

    $15,838 spent
    52% of program spending

  3. Annual celebration Community Pioneers of history making individuals and organizations whose creativity commitment and hard work still makes an impact today for the LGBTQ community.

    $3,578 spent
    12% of program spending

  4. Panels collections management and digitization and general outreach

    $6,400 spent
    21% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,275.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Delaney Resweber

Acting Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT’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.

Where its funders are

100% of RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT

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.

Metro DC PFLAG76%Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce75%Capital Pride Alliance Inc73%DC State Fair Inc72%DC Rawhides72%Fotoweek DC71%Rogue League Sports Inc71%Casa Ruby Inc71%

Nationally

Rainbow Community Center Olympia79%Badge of Pride LLC78%Rainbow Pride of West Virginia Inc78%Rainbopedia78%Boston Lgbtq Museum of Art History and Culture Incorporated78%Triangle Pride Band Inc78%Lgbt Legacy Project78%Rainbow City Band77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT: 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 HISTORY PROJECT?
RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT.
Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT?
HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAINBOW HISTORY PROJECT 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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