2009 REPORT CONFIRMS ECONOMIC DOWNTURN’S IMPACT ON LGBTQ FUNDING (New York, NY – December 15, 2010) Funders for LGBTQ Issues has just published its annual tracking report on LGBTQ grantmaking which shows that, in 2009, U.S. foundations awarded $93.5 million to organizations explicitly serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities, a decline of 12.7% — 4.3% higher than the national decline of 8.4% in U.S. foundation giving overall in 2009, as reported by the Foundation Center. As foreshadowed in our previous reports on LGBTQ grantmaking and the economy (available here and here), it was inevitable that the worst […]