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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 “queer”
Where the money went
Largest: $125,000 to MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUN — familia: transgender queer liberation movement - supporting health justice: to support organizing, advocacy and leadership development of trans, queer and gender nonconforming lati…
Largest: $50,000 to OUT IN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICS INC — core support for queer in ai to build a supportive community for queer and trans practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence/machine learning and to conduct critical, col…
Largest: $125,000 to MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — support for familia: trans queer liberation movement to organize against the detention, deportation, and criminalization of trans and queer latinx undocumented immigrants.
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $216,089 · through 2024Largest: $27,500 to NATIONAL QUEER ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER ALLIANCE INC — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Horizons FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $335,750 · through 2023Largest: $15,000 to QUEER CULTURAL CENTER — sonic rainbow - an interdisciplinary performance directed by india sky commissioned by the queer cultural center to premiere the 25th anniversary national queer arts festival.
Borealis PhilanthropyMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2024Largest: $140,000 to QUEER TRANS PROJECT — to support the work of queer trans project
Largest: $200,000 to MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK — transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and queer project
Largest: $522,122 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — james d. mcdonough fellowship in queer art history
Largest: $250,000 to CENTER FOR BLACK BROWN AND QUEER STUDIES INC — for support of the pedagogy lab
Largest: $28,333 to K DARWICH — to create hader halal (with regard to presence) a multi-format project that includes a digital archive, series of public programs, publications, and exhibitions, that critically in…
Largest: $100,000 to UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE PORTLAND — support organizational capacity to ensure effective operations and expand services to queer and trans pacific islanders in the portland metro area
Social Justice Fund NorthwestSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $198,176 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to SPECTRUM CENTER — general operating: queer justice gp
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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 →