The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4349614. Reported 40 grants totalling $4,843,364 to 27 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 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. 27 distinct organizations, with 55% 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. 42% 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 $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $80,625; the smallest was $8,000 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 | $241,875 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Propper Daley LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $185,649 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $177,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| AIDS United | Washington, DC | $155,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Raben Group LLC | Washington, DC | $151,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Equality Foundation of Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $142,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Freestate Legal Project Inc | Baltimore, MD | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Campaign for Southern Equality | Asheville, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equality Michigan | Detroit, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | Jackson, MS | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Sero Project Inc | Nashua, IA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Lgbt Center | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| National Center for Civic Innovation Inc | New York, NY | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Minority AIDS Council Dba AIDS Programs of the National | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safeworks of the Fulton County Board of Health | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Realistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 27 (37%) 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.
- 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. - The UCLA Foundation
RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT THE RESEARCH WORK OF WILLIAMS INSTITUTE IN MODERNIZING CRIMINAL LAWS AND PENALTIES FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 27 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 | 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 |
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
67% 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.
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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 $50,000 -- 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 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 0 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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