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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “lgbtqi”
Where the money went
Largest: $300,000 to CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — caps institutional priorities and lgbtqi research and communications
Largest: $266,000 to THE OTHER FOUNDATION — support to advance advocacy for safety, legal protection, and social inclusion of lgbtqi people.
Largest: $50,000 to QUEER YOUTH GROUP — to support facilitation of support groups and community discussions for lgbtqi people, production of multimedia content, participation in lgbtqi rights advocacy and awareness campa…
Largest: $375,000 to NEW VENTURE FUND — core support for nebula, a pooled fund to equip lgbtqi, womens rights and reproductive rights/justice movements to undertake strategic communications and narrative work to counter …
Largest: $70,300 to E KENNEDY — to unite research, education and community outreach to inspect how and why deportees to el salvador and honduras are harmed and why this happens, with a focus on youth, indigenous …
Largest: $399,380 to ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC — to support the advancement of lgbtqi+ rights and increase visibility of the impact of criminalization on the lives of lbtqi+ people, through research, storytelling, and public awar…
Largest: $25,000 to RAINBOW RAILROAD — lgbtqi+ people facing persecution
Nc Counts CoalitionRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $63,048 · through 2024Largest: $46,848 to LILA LATINX LGBTQI INIATIVE INC — h.t. programs
Largest: $314,610 to Victory Institute — strengthening network and skills of lgbtqi+ leaders across latin america
Largest: $40,000 to Micro Rainbow International — support the organizations mission to create opportunities for lgbtqi youth and refugees to explore
Health Access FoundationSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $31,750 · through 2021Largest: $17,500 to COMMUNITY PARTNERS - GENDER JUSTICE - LA — developing culturally competent and responsive efforts to educate lgbtqi populations about non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent the spread of covid-19
Sonoma County Vintners FoundationSanta Rosa, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $20,000 · through 2022Largest: $15,000 to POSITIVE IMAGES — to support the gender expansive youth under 12 program, as fiscal sponsor to north bay lgbtqi families
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →