California · Nonprofit
The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT
The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,797 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($152,739). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $458k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $523k
What The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT does
Mission
wayOUT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization seeking to empower LGBTQ+ youth to feel safe being who they really are. With 5 local chapters and an aggressive growth plan, wayOUT will invest in over 19 at-need LGBTQ+ youth centers by 2023.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Since 2016, wayOUT has raised over 1 million dollars for LGBTQ+ youth centers across the country. At the cornerstone of the wayOUT approach to fundraising, is the idea that these centers best understand the needs of their youth and their communities. While wayOUT vets Grant Recipients through an extensive application process, the final grant is 100% at the disposal of the recipient. As a result, the impact of dollars raised by wayOUT has a wide and varied range of projects.
$425,054 spentof which $425,054 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $425,054.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $170k to $402k (+137%).
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.
102% of The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $72k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT’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 wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 82% · 2022 69% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
65% of The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.
Against its field
The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT: 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 wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT?
- The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,797 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($152,739). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $306,797 in grants to The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $152,739 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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