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Philanthropy OUTlook: LGBTQ Latinx Communities, produced in partnership with Hispanics in Philanthropy as a part of their virtual summit, provides an overview of the unique needs of LGBTQ Latinx communities, spotlights the level of philanthropic support they receive, and offers key recommendations for funders looking to better support LGBTQ Latinx people. The infographic highlights severe disparities faced by LGBTQ Latinx communities, particularly in economic opportunity and health outcomes, making LGBTQ Latinx people particularly vulnerable to the current COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. The infographic also finds that funding for LGBTQ Latinx people has been slowly increasing when excluding the dramatic spike […]

The 2018 Tracking Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations (2020) explores the scope and character of foundation funding for LGBTQ issues in the calendar year 2018. This 17th edition of the tracking report finds that foundation funding for LGBTQ issues hit a record high of $209.2 million — surpassing the $200 million mark for only the second time. The first was reported in 2016, when the philanthropic response to the Pulse Nightclub massacre drove annual funding to $202.3 million. The report finds the overall field of LGBTQ philanthropy widening, identifying a record number of grantmakers awarding […]

This infographic distills findings from The 2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report: A Tale of Two Sectors. Produced in partnership with CHANGE Philanthropy and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), both the report and infographic explore diversity in the philanthropic workforce. Overall, we found a statistically significant difference between funders with a social justice focus and all other funders. Social justice funders were much more likely to have higher representation of LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. This infographic notes: People of color accounted for 37.8 percent of people on the staff or board of participating foundations. However, the percentage varied […]

This infographic, produced in partnership with the Schott Foundation for Public Education, highlights the challenges facing LGBTQ students and analyzes trends, gaps, and opportunities in funding for LGBTQ education issues.   The infographic finds:   More than 6 in 10 LGBTQ students experience discriminatory policies or practices at school. While LGBTQ youth make up 7-9 percent of youth nationwide, they account for 20 percent of all youth in juvenile justice facilities (and 85 percent of them are youth of color). Funding for LGBTQ education and safe schools has fluctuated over the past five years, but has never exceeded $9 million […]

The Philanthropic Closet Infographic distills the findings from the associated report The Philanthropic Closet: LGBTQ People in Philanthropy, which highlights the findings on sexual orientation and gender identity from the inaugural Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey, a first-of-its-kind pilot study on diversity in philanthropy, conducted in partnership with SMU DataArts and made possible by funding from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. In total, 947 individuals from 36 foundations participated. Thirty-four percent of individuals responded to the survey, resulting in the highest response rate of any such survey SMU DataArts has conducted. As a result, with a 99.9 percent […]

Produced as a part of our Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC) Initiative, this infographic highlights the needs of the more than 1 million trans people in the United States and notes the current scale and scope of funding for trans issues. Transgender Americans face alarmingly high rates of poverty and homelessness, struggle with considerable health disparities, and constantly confront ill-informed stigma. While funding for transgender communities in the United States has increased four-fold in the last five years, as of 2016, it still totals less than $17 million a year. As a result for every $100 awarded by US foundations, only […]

Funders for LGBTQ Issues and Global Philanthropy Project are pleased to present the 2015-2016 Global Resources Report: Philanthropic & Government Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities, a comprehensive report on the state of foundation and government funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues. This report captures data on 12,964 grants awarded by 511 foundations, intermediaries, and corporations and by 15 government and multilateral agencies over the two-year period of 2015-2016. It provides detailed data on the distribution of LGBTI funding by geography, issue, strategy, and population focus, offering a tool for identifying trends, gaps, and opportunities in the rapidly changing landscape of LGBTI […]