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12 funders with a record of paying for “lgbtqia”
Where the money went
Largest: $60,000 to PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — support operations and contemporary art programs featuring lgbtqia+ and bipoc contemporary artists, as well as artists living with disabilities benefiting communities in clackamas,…
Looking Out FoundationNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $800,000 · through 2024Largest: $135,000 to TN Equality Project Foundation — to support lgbtqia+ community initiatives throughout tennessee
Spectrum Medical Care CenterPhoenix, AZCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2025Largest: $250,000 to AUNT RITAS FOUNDATION — to help eradicate the hiv/aids epidemic and increase the use of prep within the lgbtqia+ community.
Largest: $25,000 to YOUNG SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC EMPOWERMENT — developing inclusive narratives to improve health of lgbtqia+ communities: to research and develop inclusive narratives in partnership with lgbtqia+ serving organizations in the in…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsOakland, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $167,737 · through 2024Largest: $15,937 to Regents Of The University Of California Irvine — research / project support supportive space for lgbtqia teens
Largest: $47,500 to NEW PRIDE AGENDA — to organize lgbtqia+ communities and advocate for the rights of lgbtqia+ new yorkers through its beyond equality, towards equity policy agenda.
Largest: $125,000 to POWER CALIFORNIA — support for lgbtqia+ youth organizing to build the power of the next generation of leaders.
Largest: $150,000 to OTOT — to support the general operations of an organization that provides members of the lgbtqia+ community with emergency temporary housing and additional wrap around services.
Largest: $2.2M to UTOPIA WA — utopia wa's mission is to create a safe, welcoming, supportive and vibrant space for members of the pacific islander lgbtqia+ community.
Largest: $115,788 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — project support: black lgbtqia+ migrant project
Center for Disaster PhilanthropyWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2023Largest: $450,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — the transgender law center received a $450,000 grant to provide legal services and address the humanitarian needs of lgbtqia+ asylum seekers and migrants entering the u.s. at the s…
Largest: $150,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — black lgbtqia+ migrant project
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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 →