The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4349614. Reported 89 grants totalling $6,180,124 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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 The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 43% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,000 and $60,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,330,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equality California Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $2,655,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Indiana AIDS Fund Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $321,875 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $270,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $210,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $202,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| AIDS United | Washington, DC | $195,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Propper Daley LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $185,649 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | Jackson, MS | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Raben Group LLC | Washington, DC | $151,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equality Michigan | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Equality Foundation of Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $142,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Foundation for Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Freestate Legal Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $96,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sero Project Inc | Nashua, IA | $82,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Campaign for Southern Equality | Asheville, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Status Home Inc | Atlanta, GA | $50,090 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Entertainment Industry Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nashville C a R E S Inc | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina AIDS Action Network | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shine Bright & Live | Bismarck, ND | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles Lgbt Center | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Safeworks of the Fulton County Board of Health | Atlanta, GA | $31,250 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| P a C T a Inc | Arecibo, PR | $25,010 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Aid Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Avalon Healing Center | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Baltimore Safe Haven | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bebashi - Transition to Hope | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends for Life Corporation | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hearts Everywhere Reaching Out for Children Inc | Roswell, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Comn Ctr of Greater Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lucha Contra El Sida Inc | San Juan, PR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mayfaire Medical Inc | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Taskforce Prevention and Community Services | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Vision Community Foundation | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Trans Women in Need of Services Inc | Miramar, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Translatina Network Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Young Scholars for Academic Empowerment | Riverside, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Health Project Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Center for Civic Innovation Inc | New York, NY | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| AIDS Alabama Inc | Birmingham, AL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bienestar Human Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Minority AIDS Council Dba AIDS Programs of the National | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Research & Resource Center | Indianapolis, IN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Actionaids Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dap Health Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Delaware HIV Services Inc | Wilmington, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fenway Community Health Center Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Greater Fort Lauderdale Inc | Wilton Manors, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| In the Meantime Mens Group Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Morehouse School of Medicine Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Legal Center for Youth Corp | College Park, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 63 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Equality California Institute
RESTRICTED FOR USE FOR HIV-DECRIMINALIZATION INITIATIVE AND TO SUPPORT SUB-GRANTS TO THE WILLIAMS INSTITUTE. - Propper Daley LLC
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT SOCIAL IMPACT AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN SERVICES. - The Raben Group LLC
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT STRATEGIC COUNSEL, TACTICAL PLANNING, AND CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT SERVICES. - AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF PA-HIV JUSTICE ALLIANCE'S WORKPLAN IN SUPPORT OF HIV DECRIMINALIZATION EFFORTS. - The Counter Narrative Project
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT THE COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECT SERVING AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER FOR ETAF'S MULTI-YEAR INITIATIVES - HARM REDUCTION AND HIV & AGING INITIATIVES. - Mississippi Center for Justice
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT 2025 HIV DECRIMINALIZATION AND ADVOCACY WORK.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 53 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 6 | $1,540,000 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | $1,475,715 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $622,625 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $1,205,024 | $75,000 |
| 2025 | 49 | $1,336,760 | $25,000 |
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
57% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
14 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 23 grants totalling $217,883 to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. That is 50% of the 28 funders we can see giving to it. Those 14 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
5 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Annenberg Foundation | Pennsylvania | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Herb Ritts Foundation | California | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Walter Family Foundation Inc | Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Darren Star Foundation | Delaware | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dry Farm Foundation | Florida | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Steward Family Foundation | Missouri | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Goodwin Family Memorial Tua | Missouri | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lippman Family Foundation | California | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Fran & Ray Stark Foundation | California | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Johnny Carson Foundation | California | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 14.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $25,000 -- 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 California.
- 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 The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 53 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 2049 Century Pk E 1400, Los Angeles, CA, 90067.
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