NonprofitsTransgender Law Center

Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Transgender Law Center

OAKLAND, CA

Total revenue

$15.7M

Total expenses

$18.1M

Net assets

$34.8M

Grants received

$52.7M

535 grants

EIN

050544006

Tax year

2024

Mission

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Programs

9 programs

BLACK LGBTQIA+ MIGRANT PROJECT: The Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) builds and centers the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants to ensure the liberation of all Black people through organizing and base-building, deportation defense, and strategic communications. BLMP uses leadership development, capacity building, and organizing to address the ways in which Black LGBTQIA+ migrants are criminalized by the legal and immigration systems and marginalized in the broader migrant community as well as in racial and economic justice movements

Expenses: $2.4MGrants: $136K

LEGAL PROGRAM: TLC's legal program succeeded in a variety of efforts to pursue legal protections for trans people. This included class action suits to ensure proper treatment in prisons, challenging overreach by governmental entities acting against organizations that support trans individuals, and filing amicus briefs to ensure courts hear important arguments on behalf of trans people. The organization's free, national legal Helpdesk and its Prison Mail Program responded to thousands of requests. Further, TLC incubates projects providing legal and humanitarian assistance to individuals in need.

Expenses: $1.9M

Border butterflies project

Expenses: $1.5MGrants: $207K

Narrative lab

Expenses: $1.2MGrants: $490K

Communications

Expenses: $1.2M

Disability justice project

Expenses: $816K

Positively trans

Expenses: $445K

Truth/gender justice leadership project

Expenses: $327KGrants: $210K

Black trans circles

Expenses: $108K

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$14.3M
Program service revenue$228K
Investment income$1.2M
Other revenue
Total revenue$15.7M

Expenses

Grants paid$2.5M
Salaries & benefits$8.2M
Fundraising$2.0M
Other expenses$7.3M
Total expenses$18.1M
Total assets$37.7M
Net assets$34.8M

People

26 listed

NameRoleCompensation

Shelby Chestnut

Executive Dir.

Board

$225K

40 hrs/wk

Oluchi Omeoga BLMP Co-

Director

Board

$181K

40 hrs/wk

Rose Berry BLMP Co-

Director

Board

$167K

40 hrs/wk

Nolizwe Nondabula BLMP Co-

Director

Board

$162K

40 hrs/wk

Bran Fenner Managing

Director

Board

$147K

40 hrs/wk

Billie Chen FinanceOper

Director

Board

$143K

40 hrs/wk

Ebony Harper

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Morgan Darby

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Jayy Covert

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Gwendolyn Rogers

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Imara Jones Chair

Director

Board

2 hrs/wk

Chinyere EzieVice Ch

Director

Board

2 hrs/wk

Phillipe CunninghamVice Ch

Director

Board

2 hrs/wk

Ana Conner Secretary

Director

Board

2 hrs/wk

Myles Paisley Treas

Director

Board

2 hrs/wk

Diamond Collier

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Alic Shook

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Louis Porter II

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Sunu Chandy

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Beckham Rivera

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Lynly Egyes

Legal Director

Staff

$138K

40 hrs/wk

Meera Vaidyanathan

Development Dir.

Staff

$135K

40 hrs/wk

Emem Maurus

Project Legal Dir.

Staff

$129K

40 hrs/wk

Harry Itie

BLMP Comm. Dir.

Staff

$126K

40 hrs/wk

Sue Yacka-Bible

Dir Communications

Staff

$125K

40 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 200 of 535

FromAmountPurposeYear
$2.1M
General operating support and project support
2024
$1.5M
GENERAL SUPPORT AND PROJECT SUPPORT FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
2024
$494K
81509 VCFC NARRATIVE GRANT TO THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER: DISRUPTING CHALLENGES TO CAREGIVING AND TO ACCESS TO CARE FOR TRANS YOUTHS
2024
$400K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$289K
TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER & FISCAL PROJECTS
2024
$270K
Program Grant
2024
$250K
TO SUPPORT THE SOUTHERN TRANS COALITION
2024
$250K
TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$200K
SUPPORT FOR THE BORDER BUTTERFLIES PROJECTS POLICY ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, AND LEGAL AND HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT.
2024
$150K
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$150K
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$150K
CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY, HUMAN SERVICES, COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING
2024
$150K
CORE SUPPORT FOR THE BORDER BUTTERFLIES PROJECT, A COALITION OF LGBTQ AND MIGRANT JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, LEGAL SUPPORT, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, AND ACCOMPANIMENT TO LGBTQ+ MIGRANTS ALONG THE U.S. SOUTHERN BORDER
2024
$105K
Civic Participation
2024
$100K
RIGHTS & JUSTICE
2024
$100K
BORDER BUTTERFLY PROJECT
2024
$100K
Program Support
2024
$100K
To support the Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project.
2024
$100K
SUPPORT FOR INCREASING PLAINTIFF, ATTORNEY, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND MOVEMENT SAFETY AND SECURITY.
2024
$100K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$100K
In Support of the Charitable Activities of Transgender Law Center's Sponsored Project, Black LGBTQIA + Migrant Project, and its Civic Engagement Initiative in Greater Houston
2024
$100K
TO SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS
2024
$75K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$75K
General support of Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project
2024
$75K
In Support of the Charitable Activities of Transgender Law Center's Sponsored Project, Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, and Capacity Strengthening Activities in Greater Houston
2024
$75K
General Support
2024
$75K
DONOR ADVISED, PUBLIC AFFAIRS/SOCIETY BENEFIT
2024
$53K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2024
$51K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$50K
CORE SUPPORT FOR CREATING AN ALIGNMENT SPACE FOR TRANS AND LBGTQ+ NATIONAL MOVEMENT LEADERS TO STRATEGIZE COLLECTIVELY AND EXPLORE COORDINATED ACTION
2024
$45K
79290 PROMOTING ASSET-BASED NARRATIVES OF TRANS 'CHOSEN FAMILIES' TO HELP ENSURE AN ARRAY OF CAREGIVING RELATIONSHIPS FOR ALL FAMILIES
2024
$40K
General operating support
2024
$40K
PROJECT SUPPORT
2024
$38K
80369 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER, 2022-2024
2024
$30K
EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
2024
$30K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$20K
PROGRAM GRANT
2024
$15K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$14K
CIVIL RIGHTS
2024
$13K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$13K
GENERAL OPERATING
2024
$11K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$10K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$10K
GENERAL SUPPORT OF MISSION
2024
$10K
FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
2024
$10K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2024
$8K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$7K
UNRESTRICTED
2024
$5K
PROGRAM SUPPORT
2024
$3K
TO BE USED IN EXEMPT PURPOSE
2024
$3K
TO HELP ACTIVITIES OF VAR PUBLIC CHAR INST WHICH ARE EXEMPT UNDER 501 (C)(3)
2024
$3K
GENERAL OPERATING
2024
$2K
General & Unrestricted
2024
$1K
THE BLACK LGBTQIA MIGRANT PROJECT TO BUILD COMMUNITY AT THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK AND MIGRANT EXPERIENCES
2024
$1K
General Operating Support
2024
$500
CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
2024
$500
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$500
CHARITABLE
2024
$500
FOR OPERATIONS
2024
$500
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSE
2024
$400
General & Unrestricted
2024
$400
General & Unrestricted
2024
$100
General & Unrestricted
2024
$100
CHARITABLE DONATIONS
2024
$50
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$50
DONATIONS TO COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS UNDER "MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM."
2024
$1.3M
General operating support and project support
2023
$1M
PROJECT SUPPORT FOR THE TRANS AGENDA FOR LIBERATION NARRATIVE LAB TO BUILD THE COMMUNICATIONS CAPACITY OF TRANSGENDER RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
2023
$450K
THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER RECEIVED A $450,000 GRANT TO PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES AND ADDRESS THE HUMANITARIAN NEEDS OF LGBTQIA+ ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANTS ENTERING THE U.S. AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER WITH MEXICO THROUGH ITS COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM, THE BORDER BUTTERFLIES PROJECT.
2023
$442K
BLACK LGBTQIA MIGRANT PROJECT - EXPANDING POWER AND HEALTH: TO SUPPORT A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO ADVOCATE FOR A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY-DRIVEN STRATEGIES TO KEEP TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BLACK MIGRANT LGBTQ PEOPLE, ALIVE, THRIVING AND FIGHTING FOR LIBERATION IN CALIFORNIA.
2023
$405K
79290 PROMOTING ASSET-BASED NARRATIVES OF TRANS 'CHOSEN FAMILIES' TO HELP ENSURE AN ARRAY OF CAREGIVING RELATIONSHIPS FOR ALL FAMILIES
2023
$400K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$378K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$341K
Program Grant
2023
$338K
80369 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER, 2022-2024
2023
$300K
FOR CORE OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE BORDER BUTTERFLIES PROJECT TO PROVIDE HEALTH, LEGAL, HUMANITARIAN, AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR LGBTQ MIGRANTS AT THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER.
2023
$250K
FOR GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$250K
TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$246K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$210K
Civic Participation
2023
$200K
SUPPORT FOR THE BORDER BUTTERFLY PROJECT (BBP) TO DEVELOP AND CONTINUE IMPLEMENTING AN IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM RESPONSE AT THE U.S./MEXICO BORDER FOR LGBTQ MIGRANTS AND THE DETENTION SYSTEMS THAT HARM THEM.
2023
$172K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2023
$154K
TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER
2023
$150K
Leadership Development and Skill Building for Transgender Activists and Allies
2023
$150K
BLACK LGBTQIA+ MIGRANT PROJECT
2023
$150K
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$150K
ADVANCING LGBTQI RIGHTS
2023
$139K
TO SUPPORT THE BLACK LGBTQIA MIGRANT PROJECT. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
2023
$125K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT TO CHANGE LAW, POLICY, AND ATTITUDES SO THAT ALL PEOPLE CAN LIVE SAFELY, AUTHENTICALLY, AND FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION REGARDLESS OF THEIR GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION.
2023
$100K
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR BLACK LGBTQIA + MIGRANT PROJECT
2023
$100K
FOR THE BLACK LGBTQIA+ MIGRANT PROJECT (BLMP)
2023
$100K
GENERAL PURPOSE CONTRIBUTION
2023
$100K
TO SUPPORT GENERAL OPERATIONS
2023
$100K
CORE SUPPORT FOR THE BORDER BUTTERFLIES PROJECT, A CROSS-BORDER COALITION OF LGBTQ AND MIGRANT JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, LEGAL SUPPORT, AND ACCOMPANIMENT TO LGBTQ+ MIGRANTS ALONG THE U.S. SOUTHERN BORDER
2023
$100K
ADVANCING LGBTQI RIGHTS
2023
$92K
FOR THE FUND'S 70TH ANNIVERSARY; TO SUPPORT LGBT ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANT VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AT THE BORDER; FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
2023
$86K
PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
2023
$85K
Program Support
2023
$80K
LEGAL EMPOWERMENT FUND
2023
$75K
General Support
2023
$70K
IMMIGRATION EDUCATION GRANT
2023
$60K
Funds for black trans migrants
2023
$53K
EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
2023
$50K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$50K
FOR BLMP TO SUPPORT BLACK MIGRANT MOVEMENT BUILDING IN TEXAS
2023
$50K
Legal Program Support
2023
$50K
OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE
2023
$50K
GENERAL OPERATING
2023
$50K
BORDER BUTTERFLY PROJECT
2023
$45K
Unrestricted
2023
$40K
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FUND
2023
$40K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$40K
Project or Program Support
2023
$39K
FOR BLACK LGBTQIA+ MIGRANT PROJECT (BLMP)
2023
$37K
TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.
2023
$36K
PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
2023
$35K
to support organization
2023
$30K
TO PROMOTE RACIAL, GENDER AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
2023
$30K
FUNDS RAISED BY GLOBALGIVING AND DISBURSED TO MEET DONOR EXPECTATIONS
2023
$30K
PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$28K
DONOR-ADVISED, PUBLIC AFFAIRS/SOCIETY BENEFIT
2023
$20K
CIVIL RIGHTS (HUMSVCS)
2023
$20K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$15K
RIGHTS & JUSTICE
2023
$15K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$15K
RIGHTS & JUSTICE
2023
$15K
CHARITABLE DONATION
2023
$14K
FOR GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$12K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$11K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$10K
GENERAL CHARITABLE USE
2023
$10K
SUPPORT AND OUTREA
2023
$10K
GENERAL OPERATING
2023
$10K
EDUCATION
2023
$9K
PROGRAM SUPPORT
2023
$8K
SUPPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
2023
$8K
General & Unrestricted
2023
$7K
UNRESTRICTED
2023
$7K
Designated Grant: General operating and support
2023
$5K
general support
2023
$5K
Charitable
2023
$3K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$3K
CHARITY'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$3K
TO BE USED IN EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$3K
501(C)(3) ACTIVITIES
2023
$2K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$2K
General & Unrestricted
2023
$2K
GENERAL OPERATING
2023
$2K
In support of general operations.
2023
$2K
Transgender Law Center
2023
$2K
General & Unrestricted
2023
$1K
GENERAL SUPPORT. THE ORGANIZATION CAN USE THE FUNDS AS NEEDED IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS CHARITABLE PURPOSE.
2023
$1K
Luce Foundation 2023 Employee Year-end Grant - Teresa Carbone
2023
$1K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$1K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$600
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$600
MATCHING CONTRIBUTION MADE BY EMPLOYEE OF YELP, IN
2023
$550
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$500
FOR OPERATIONS
2023
$500
CHARITABLE
2023
$420
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSE
2023
$400
General & Unrestricted
2023
$350
DONATIONS TO COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS UNDER "MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM."
2023
$300
MATCHING GIFT
2023
$300
MATCHING GIFT
2023
$250
General & Unrestricted
2023
$210
MATCHING GIFTS
2023
$200
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$150
MATCHING GIFT
2023
$120
EMPLOYEE MATCHING GIFT
2023
$50
MATCHING GIFTS
2023
$50
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$1.7M
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$1.5M
HUMAN SERVICES
2022
$735K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$442K
BLACK LGBTQIA MIGRANT PROJECT - EXPANDING POWER AND HEALTH: TO SUPPORT A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO ADVOCATE FOR A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY-DRIVEN STRATEGIES TO KEEP TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NONCONFORMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BLACK MIGRANT LGBTQ PEOPLE, ALIVE, THRIVING AND FIGHTING FOR LIBERATION IN CALIFORNIA.
2022
$395K
Program Grant
2022
$375K
80369 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER, 2022-2024
2022
$324K
TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER
2022

Funded by

$52.7M from 209 funders · 535 grants · 2017–2024

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

$6.9M · 9 grants · 2020–2024

National Philanthropic Trust

$4.6M · 4 grants · 2019–2023

The Ford Foundation

$3.9M · 15 grants · 2020–2024

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc

$3.1M · 13 grants · 2019–2023

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

$2.8M · 5 grants · 2020–2024

American Online Giving Foundation Inc

$2.7M · 6 grants · 2019–2024

The California Endowment

$1.9M · 13 grants · 2017–2023

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$1.7M · 13 grants · 2020–2024

Details

EIN050544006
NTEE codeR26
Subsection03
Ruling date2005-02
Formed2005
Employees62
Volunteers20
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