New York · Nonprofit
The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd
The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $92k
What The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd does
Mission
The Gilbert Baker Foundation seeks to protect and extend the legacy of Gilbert Baker, the creator of the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag, as an activist, artist, and educator. We want to record and promote the history of the creation of the Rainbow Flag and its impact on the world and educate future generations about the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag. We support and empower our mission on a collaborative level between the Foundation and allies, including the LGBTQ community and artists, organizations, educational institutions, non-profits, museums, archives, and the press. We promote this mission to the wider world beyond the LGBTQ community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Gilbert Baker Foundation developed several partnerships throughout the year to share Gilbert Baker's story and the meaning of the Rainbow Flag with partners such as Absolut Vodka, The Gap, Estee Lauder, Harry's Shavers, and the GLBT Museum. The foundation also updated, maintained, and promoted its online media presence by redesigning the website and leveraging social networks to advertise events and the Gilbert Baker Memoir, RAINBOW WARRIOR. The foundation also acquired 501c3 nonprofit status and received name and signature trademarks in class 25 for clothing and fabrics to protect Gilbert Baker's story and name. We also conducted a series of interviews for our Oral History Project and a panel during the June pride season with The Generations Project and Heritage of Pride.
$59,264 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $49k to $94k (+93%).
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.
8% of The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd’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
The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 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
94% of The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd: 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 The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd?
- The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,000 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $53,000 in grants to The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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