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The Marie Equi Institute

The Marie Equi Institute (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,417 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$463k
Net assets
$904k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What The Marie Equi Institute does

Mission

To enrich the health of the trans, queer, gender diverse and intersex communities through trauma-informed care, culturally affirming care and social justice advocacy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Opened supportive housing services day center to provide peer support, showers, laundry, nutrition support, safety off the streets, and comprehensive community health support for unhoused and low-income program participants.

    $1,331,678 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,331,678.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($148k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2020 Revenue 69 ($146k) Expenses 89 ($132k) Net assets 120 ($80k)2021 Revenue 185 ($393k) Expenses 256 ($379k) Net assets 141 ($94k)2022 Revenue 250 ($530k) Expenses 324 ($480k) Net assets 1370 ($910k)2023 Revenue 143 ($303k) Expenses 534 ($791k) Net assets 633 ($420k)2024 Revenue 995 ($2.1M) Expenses 995 ($1.5M) Net assets 1361 ($904k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (995)Expenses (995)Net assets (1361)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $420k to $2.0M (+367%).

$66k
$80k
$94k
$919k
$420k
$2.0M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 88% · 2022 71% · 2023 38% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of The Marie Equi Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’19
$14k
’20
$14k
’21
$50k
’22
−$488k
’23
$636k
’24
3.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Emily Ruff

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20192021202220232024
Listed67657
Joined··+1+0+2
No longer listed··210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $145k → $66k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Marie Equi Institute’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 Marie Equi Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% 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 Marie Equi Institute.

31%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 38% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 2023 84% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of The Marie Equi Institute's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

100% of The Marie Equi Institute's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Marie Equi Institute runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)58% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding The Marie Equi Institute receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.

State$2.5M
21
22
23
24
25
Top programs
  • OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$1.3M
  • PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$838k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$325k

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 The Marie Equi Institute

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 Oregon

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Marie Equi Institute?
The Marie Equi Institute (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,417 to it, the largest being MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($145,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Marie Equi Institute have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $463,417 in grants to The Marie Equi Institute, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Marie Equi Institute?
MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Marie Equi Institute find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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