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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 “transgender”
Where the money went
Largest: $40,000 to COMMUNITY PARTNERS — gender justice la building transgender power and health: to support community-led research and cultural organizing efforts within the transgender and gender nonconforming community…
Largest: $269,098 to NATIONAL CTR FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY — 80602 supporting completion of the 2022 u.s. transgender survey to provide a portrait of the lives of transgender adults and to effect policy change
Largest: $250,000 to NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY — support for project magpie to strengthen the national transgender movement in the us.
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
41 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $278,269 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
Largest: $1.0M to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — project support for the trans agenda for liberation narrative lab to build the communications capacity of transgender rights organizations in the united states.
Borealis PhilanthropyMinneapolis, MNCharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $2.0M · through 2024Largest: $324,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — to support the work of transgender law center
Largest: $735,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — general operating support
Amalgamated Charitable FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $6.4M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to Transgender Law Center — general operating support and project support
Human Dignity FoundationSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $231,200 · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to NORTH COUNTY LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTER — provide funding to community based organizations that serve the san diego area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population.
Largest: $250,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — keep transgender and gender nonconforming (tgnc) people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation in the southeast
Largest: $250,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — for core operating support to advance racial justice in california through education, advocacy and narrative change efforts that address systemic racial inequities in policing for …
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.6M · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER — program - for general operating support to a legal advocacy and community empowerment project centering the safety, wellness, and economic inclusion of black lgbtqia+ youth and adu…
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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 →