The Gilbert Baker Foundation Ltd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843774546
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
8778295500
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,384
Expenses
$59,264
Assets
$94,271
Liabilities
$1,846

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Charles Beal (President)

People named in this filing

  • Charles Beal (President)
  • Jay Blotcher (Secretary)
  • Larry Burnett (Foundation Mgr.)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Gilbert Baker Foundation seeks to protect and extend the legacy of Gilbert Baker, the creator of the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag, as an activist, artist, and educator. We want to record and promote the history of the creation of the Rainbow Flag and its impact on the world and educate future generations about the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag. We support and empower our mission on a collaborative level between the Foundation and allies, including the LGBTQ community and artists, organizations, educational institutions, non-profits, museums, archives, and the press. We promote this mission to the wider world beyond the LGBTQ community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Gilbert Baker Foundation developed several partnerships throughout the year to share Gilbert Baker's story and the meaning of the Rainbow Flag with partners such as Absolut Vodka, The Gap, Estee Lauder, Harry's Shavers, and the GLBT Museum. The foundation also updated, maintained, and promoted its online media presence by redesigning the website and leveraging social networks to advertise events and the Gilbert Baker Memoir, RAINBOW WARRIOR. The foundation also acquired 501c3 nonprofit status and received name and signature trademarks in class 25 for clothing and fabrics to protect Gilbert Baker's story and name. We also conducted a series of interviews for our Oral History Project and a panel during the June pride season with The Generations Project and Heritage of Pride.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.