Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$334,497

Total expenses

$759,640

Contributions and grants received

$303,219

Grants paid

$172,000

Program service revenue

$3,240

Investment income

$28,038

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,153,346

Total liabilities, end of year

$11,923

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,141,423

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$532,086

Management and general expenses

$181,293

Fundraising expenses

$46,261

Program service expenses (Part III)

$532,086

Program services were 70.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• EQUALITY FEDERATION IS AN ADVOCACY ACCELERATOR, ROOTED IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, BUILDING POWER IN OUR NETWORK OF 50+ STATE-BASED LGBTQ+ ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS. COLLECTIVELY, OUR STATE PARTNER NETWORK MOBILIZES MORE THAN 2 MILLION SUPPORTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO ADVANCE EQUALITY AND JUSTICE FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITIES THEY CALL HOME. EQUALITY FEDERATION USES TECHNOLOGY COMBINED WITH OUR POLICY EXPERTISE TO MONITOR IMPORTANT STATE LEGISLATION. IN 2025, EQUALITY FEDERATION TRACKED LGBTQ+-RELATED LEGISLATION IN THE STATES SO WE COULD PROVIDE ADVOCATES ON THE GROUND WITH THE STRATEGY, ORGANIZING, MESSAGING, COMMUNICATIONS, AND POLICY RESOURCES THEY NEEDED. DURING 2025, ADVOCATES SUCCESSFULLY DEFEATED OR NEUTRALIZED ROUGHLY 90% OF THE ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILLS EQUALITY FEDERATION TRACKED.

  Expenses $532,086 · Grants $172,000 · Revenue $3,240

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• EQUALITY VIRGINIA ADVOCATES

  $30,000

  POLICY ADVOCACY; VOTER ENGAGEMENT

• EQUALITY NORTH CAROLINA

  $25,000

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• THE SOUTHERN EMPOWERMENT COLLECTIVE

  $12,500

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• EQUALITY MICHIGAN ACTION NETWORK

  $11,000

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA

  $10,000

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• SILVER STATE EQUALITY

  $9,000

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• GARDEN STATE EQUALITY

  $7,500

  POLICY ADVOCACY

• OUTFRONT MINNESOTA

  $7,500

  POLICY ADVOCACY

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE

  501(C)(3) · LGBT ORGANIZATION · DC · controlled entity

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

1 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202642459349301629

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