California · Nonprofit
THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT
THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,469 to it, the largest being LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION ($276,833). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 879 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Astraea Foundation Incshared funders
- Destination Tomorrow Incportfolio match
- Bay Area Physicians for Human Rightsportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $5k → $558k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TRANSGENDER DISTRICT’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 TRANSGENDER DISTRICT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% 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 TRANSGENDER DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 79% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Astraea Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Destination Tomorrow Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Physicians for Human Rightsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Francis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Translifeline DBA Trans Lifelineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob a Ross Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian a McCarthy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Twitter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heritage of Pride Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pronoun Fka Tie the Knotportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel and Latanya R Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT?
- THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,547,469 to it, the largest being LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION ($276,833). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,547,469 in grants to THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT?
- LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $276,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing