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Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1481896. Reported 63 grants totalling $4,996,250 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 80% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,323 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights Campaign Inc | Washington, DC | $3,975,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thrive Ss Inc | Atlanta, GA | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Scholars for Academic Empowerment | Riverside, CA | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | Charlotte, NC | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alpha Trans Corp | Caguas, PR | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arianna's Center | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $51,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| America Votes Education Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abounding Prosperty Inc | Dallas, TX | $49,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus | Chicago, IL | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Black Justice Coalition Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trillium Health Inc | Rochester, NY | $34,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Destination Tomorrow Inc | Bronx, NY | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bradbury-Sullivan Lgbt Community Center | Allentown, PA | $31,469 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emil K Wilbekin Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Muslims for Progressive Values Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Start Somewhere LLC Dba Lesbians Who Tech | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Normal Anomaly Initiative Inc | Houston, TX | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brotherhood Inc | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lionel Lee JR Center for Wellness | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equality Florida Institute Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Power Rising | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rainbow Railroad USA Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| US Helping US-People Into Living Inc | Washington, DC | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Transmen Inc | Carrollton, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition | Carrollton, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Naesm Inc | Atlanta, GA | $11,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Freedom Oklahoma Education Campaign Ltd | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,020 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Black Pride Weekend LLC | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brothers United | Indianapolis, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Prevention Intervention Education & Research | Greenville, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equality Federation Institute | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equality Michigan | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Miracle of Love Inc | Orlando, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Black Justice Collective Institute | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Voices Pittsburgh Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Out Memphis | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Center for Black Health and Equity | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unity Coalition Coalicion Unida Inc | Miami Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catalyst Montana | Helena, MT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trans Women in Need of Services Inc | Miramar, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Tribune Inc | Austin, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unique Trans-Ition Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nationz Foundation Incorporated | Richmond, VA | $5,988 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Blood Center Inc | New York, NY | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waves Ahead Corp | San Juan, PR | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| My Brothers Keeper Inc | Ridgeland, MS | $5,323 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 50 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Human Rights Campaign Inc
DIRECT LOBBYING IN FURTHERANCE OF HRCF'S EXEMPT PURPOSE - The Freedom Center for Social Justice
TRAINING INITIATIVE SUPPORT - Thrive Ss Inc
HIV TESTING KIT INITIATIVE SUPPORT & GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT - Destination Tomorrow
HIV TESTING KIT INITIATIVE & EVENT SUPPORT - Alpha Trans Corp
HIV TESTING KIT INITIATIVE SUPPORT - Start Somewhere LLC Dba Lesbians Who Tech
LESBIANS WHO TECH CONFERENCE SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $1,124,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | $1,025,323 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,465,807 | $23,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $1,381,120 | $21,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
82% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Human Rights Campaign Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1640 Rhode Island Avenue Nw, Washington, DC, 20036.
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